Friday, April 23, 2010

33 SEC employees watched porn while country died-another Getaway Day big news story

  • Nothing will happen to them. This behavior is expected in third world toilets.
As suggested by NY Magazine, perhaps the real reason for huge media blitz around the recent
Washington Post:"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. He agreed to resign, an earlier watchdog report said.

- 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 "very graphic" material on his hard drive by

  • using Google images to bypass the SEC's internal filter, according to an earlier report from the inspector general. The accountant refused to testify in his defense, and received a 14-day suspension.

- Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of up to $222,418.

  • - The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. The cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008."...(Washington Post)
They miss Bernie Madoff, focus instead on global warming, now this. NY Magazine, "Report finds 33 SEC employees watched porn as economy fell apart," 4/23/10.

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