Senior SEC staffers watched porn while the U.S. economy imploded
The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years; 31 of those probes occurred in the 2½ years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.
Some shocking findings:
• A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office.
• An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "Sex" or "Pornography." Yet he still managed to amass a collection of "sexually suggestive and inappropriate images" on his hard drive.
• Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of up to $222,418.
- Associated Press
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