Former vice president and top accountant, Sharon Watkins, described for jury how after Skilling left the company that August, she pleaded with Ken Lay to act before it was too late.
When Ken Lay returned to being CEO of Enron in August 2001, he was told in no uncertain terms that Enron was the functional equivalent of a ticking time bomb--the looming losses were that severe.
She spent just under a year on the beach when she was offered a position running Wealth Management by Ken Lewis, then CEO of Bank of America in August 2009.