Sherron Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company. Time magazine named her as one of their 2002 Persons of the Year. Ms. Watkins is co-author with Mimi Swartz of Power Failure, the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.

Lawmakers are pushing for a Wall Street overhaul. But nothing will come of it, if history is anything to go by, argues Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins.