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Sherron Watkins is the whistleblower who exposed corporate misconduct in the Enron scandal. In the summer of 2001, she warned Enron’s chairman, Kenneth Lay, the company’s methods of accounting were improper. She, along with two other whistleblowers, was named Time Persons of the Year in 2002.
In today’s Fraud in America episode, she discusses her story, why the SEC Whistleblower Program is so important, and her life after whistleblowing.
Sherron Watkins is currently an Executive-in-Residence at the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University.
Acadia Healthcare is a massive for-profit chain of psychiatric hospitals, who recently settled a False Claims Act case for nearly $20 million.
In today’s episode, one of the whistleblowers, Jamie Clark Thompson, sits down with us to lay out the massive corporate fraud behind the case, holding...
Published 11/13/24
Dr. Rayme Edler became the Medical Director of Escambia County, Florida after she flagged issues with the treatment of patients by the county’s emergency medical services.
Once on the inside, she tried to enact changes to ensure the county medical professionals were properly licensed. Then the...
Published 10/30/24