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Article: Watkins' 'Gutsy' Enron Memo Draws Praise, Doubts.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 30, 2003
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By Bill Murphy, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 30--In August 2001, Sherron Watkins wrote a memo to Ken Lay, warning him Enron could "implode in a wave of accounting scandals."
It led to a brief meeting with Lay. But the memo changed nothing -- except her life.
She was propelled from obscure, if well-paid, executive in a moribund company to national icon with a burgeoning career as corporate governance consultant, speaker on business ethics and co-author of the latest Enron book.
Time magazine named her and two other women its Persons of the Year and pronounced 2002 "The Year of the Whistle-blower."
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