Enron Whistleblower Would Go to WikiLeaks Now ("Huge Sledgehammer Many Employees Will Go To")

[Hissyspit]

Source: Accounting Today

Enron Whistleblower Would Go to WikiLeaks Now
NEW YORK (JANUARY 28, 2011)
BY MICHAEL COHN
Sherron Watkins, the former vice president at Enron who tried to blow the whistle on the accounting violations at the scandal-plagued Houston energy-trading giant, told an audience at a seminar Friday on the new whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that she and other whistleblower employees would probably take their concerns to WikiLeaks rather than the Securities and Exchange Commission now.

“People now will go to WikiLeaks to protect themselves,” she said during a briefing at the New York State Society of CPAs’ Foundation for Accounting Education offices in Manhattan. “WikiLeaks is a huge, huge sledgehammer that many employees will go to. People like myself will just go to WikiLeaks.”

Watkins, a CPA, said that since she came forward, she has been unable to get a job in corporate America despite her years of experience as an accountant and portfolio manager. “The label whistleblower is stuck on my head,” she said. She now makes her living by giving speeches, and said she has heard from other whistleblowers about their inability to get jobs in their old occupations.

Read more: http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Enron-Whistleblower-WikiLeaks-57078-1.html

[DBoon]

1. sad that the cost of doing the right thing is permanent unemployability

nt

[WestSeattle2]

12. I think it speaks volumes about the state of business ethics in

America. If companies are honest and operating ethically, what would they possibly have to fear from hiring this person?

Her lack of employment in corporate America speaks volumes - and not about her.

[librechik]

2. thank god some are less worried about their jobs than the consequences of corruption

[meegbear]

3. The SEC would release "edited highlights" ...

these need to see the full light of day.

[xchrom]

4. +1

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[OnyxCollie]

6. K&R. nt

[glinda]

7. K & R n/t

[saras]

8. Whistleblower should have the same cachet as lifesaver

In an only marginally corrupt country, whistleblowers would be in high demand for jobs requiring trust, such as pretty much anything having to do with finances.

Can you imagine a bank saying publicly "we wouldn't hire someone because they reported a crime at another bank"?

[fascisthunter]

9. awesome! (nt)

[goforit]

10. Great idea! and maybe the American people will stand up by 2050

The day couch potatoes fight for legal justice and human rights
will be the day their remote controls are taken away.

[villager]

11. Maybe, by then, what's left of the American people actually will!

n/t

[Hissyspit]

13. Saturday kick nt

[The Second Stone]

14. This is why they have mobilized all the power of the US government

against Wikileaks.

[Enthusiast]

15. We have seen the Enronization

of American business. No surprise considering we had eight years of the Bush Administration.

[Major Hogwash]

16. Where is the latest data dump on the American banks from Wikileaks?

I haven't heard of it coming out yet.
Keep us up to date when it does come out.