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...smell the fish sticks from lunch in Sherron Watkins' 60-year-old house near downtown Houston, see the framed pictures of the family vacation and the baby in bunny ears and even one of her country-crooning second cousin, Lyle Lovett. Things have been so hectic, Watkins apologizes, that the Christmas ornaments haven't been put away yet. The daughter of two educators, Watkins grew up in nearby Tomball, where she worked the cash register at the family grocery store and began saving her money. By 1982, she'd picked up two accounting degrees in Austin and quickly found...
...About the only thing that didn't fail was Sherron Watkins' flair for numbers. In the sad tale of Enron's collapse, Watkins is the closest thing to a hero in sight. When she goes out for coffee, strangers stop to give her "attagirls" and ask for her autograph. She still goes to work each day at the company's headquarters in downtown Houston, where the tilted logo out front has yielded Enron a new nickname: the Crooked...
...news media, it is "Enron whistle-blower" Sherron Watkins, even though Watkins never really blew a whistle. A whistle-blower would have written that letter to the Houston Chronicle, and long before August; Watkins wrote it to Ken Lay, and warned him of potential whistle-blowers lurking among them. (She quotes one of them as lamenting, "We're such a crooked company...
...Sherron Watkins still works for Enron, and she returned to the office Tuesday morning just as her memo, released anew and in full by congressional investigators, covered front pages across the country. Her lawyer says there were no retaliations by those colleagues still around these days; a source close to her, though, told the LA Times that Watkins was made to feel "an outcast." Her husband called her a "team player" and said he was proud...
...shriek of Sherron Watkins' letter didn't reach public ears until five months after she wrote it, and even in August concerns like hers seem to have been old news in corner offices, and probably some cubicles, at both companies. And she may well have written it purely to cover herself, to protect that resume when the inevitable happened - the "CYA" letter is as old as business itself. But because she got a reaction - made sure she got a reaction - she did start a daisy chain of provable what-they-knew-and-when-they-knew-it that...