White Collar Watch examines how the Dodd-Frank Act, now law, enables the Securities and Exchange Commission to encourage whistle-blowers who reveal a broad array of securities fraud. By Peter J.

Former Enron executive Sherron Watkins, whose memos to then-chairman Ken Lay about questionable accounting practices thrust her into the national spotlight, was named Sunday along with two other ...

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We continue our summer reading series with Sherron Watkins, better known as the Enron whistleblower. Since leaving the company, Watkins co-authored the book Power Failure: The Inside Story of the ...

Jurors literally leaned forward in their seats scribbling notes as whistleblower Sherron Watkins described the last critical weeks in the fall of Enron, as she testified during week seven of the fraud ...

For Enron watchers who feared things might be getting stale, last week brought fresh material for outrage. Although whistle blower Sherron Watkins testified in Congress that she believed former CEO ...

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins told a Senate panel today the company missed "a brief window of opportunity" to salvage itself last year. Watkins said Enron's CEO, ...

Accountants don't have the most glamorous job in the world. Their days are spent closely examining piles of paperwork to make sure companies are following the rules. But they can be heroes, especially ...

Sherron S. Watkins, the Enron vice president celebrated for trying to warn the company's founder, Kenneth L. Lay, that the company could ''implode in a wave of accounting scandals,'' recounted to ...

Former Enron employee and Tomball native Sherron Watkins will give the keynote speech today at a National Day of Prayer luncheon at the Tomball United Methodist Church, 1603 Baker Drive, from 10:50 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Sherron Watkins was a Vice President for the Enron Corporation with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 House Committee. The National ...