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When her name was leaked in early January, Watkins initially felt a rush. "People were high-fiving. They were pumped and said, 'Attagirl,'" she recalls. She signed autographs in Starbucks; her husband Rick jokingly referred to himself as "Mr. Sherron Watkins." Their daughter Marion, 2, ran around the living room...
The high was short-lived. Some laid-off Enron employees began blaming Watkins for not taking her concerns to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Others fumed that in late August and October 2001, after writing her memos, Watkins unloaded $47,000 in Enron stock--moves she says were motivated by...
As deflated as she can sometimes sound, Watkins does not for a moment regret her actions. A few weeks ago, when she was unpacking the boxes she had taken from her Enron office, she happened upon a green sticky-note pad that the firm once handed out to employees. It...
WATKINS: I think it's the value system at the top. [Cooper and Rowley are nodding.] It's very important that the leaders set the tone. Remember the Tylenol-tampering scare? It threw the company into a tailspin. [But] the chairman of Johnson & Johnson came in, supposedly, and said, "I...
On a Saturday morning in December, TIME brought Coleen Rowley of the FBI, Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom and Sherron Watkins of Enron together to talk, for the first time, about their parallel experiences over the past year. The women had never met before, but over breakfast they compared stories and...