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While the U.S. economy crashed and burned, the guys and a gal over at the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), a federal watchdog agency responsible for regulating the securities industry, were busy monitoring porn sites instead of doing their jobs. And we're not talking a few minutes here and there during their lunch breaks on their personal laptops, we're talking up to 8 hours a day for one individual. It's hard to comprehend how so many porn addicts wound up in the same agency, but it's pretty darn disgusting that they found time to access thousands upon thousands of porn site while our economy tanked. In essence, they were being paid to watch porn. And these weren't just low-level grunts, some of these people were making up to $222,000 annually.
At the behest of Senator Chick Grassley, R-Iowa an investigation was ordered and in the span of two and a half years, 31 offenders were identified as having surfed for porn on agency computers on company time. 17 of them were senior officers making over $100,000 per year, including accountants and an attorney.
The report, which has yet to be released was written by David Kotz, Inspector General of the SEC.
Some of the cases reported were, as follows, according to ABC's Jonathan Karl:
One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn, according to the report, which has yet to be released. When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.
Another SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto porn websites he joined.
And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.
In one case, the report noted, an employee tried hundreds of times to access pornographic sites and was denied access. When he used a flash drive, he successfully bypassed the filter to visit a "significant number" of porn sites.
The employee also said he deliberately disabled a filter in Google to access inappropriate sites. After management informed him that he would lose his job, the employee resigned.
But although this man resigned, apparently there are offenders still on the job. Porn for many is an addiction, and if these people were hooked to their computers for so many hours a day, they need some major help. And they definitely should not stillbe working at the SEC.
Rep Darrel Issa, R-CA, of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said that it was
"disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse."
