The SEC’s Porn Problem

From the NYT:

It seems that the Securities and Exchange Commission may have a pornography problem even bigger than expected.
Gawker reported that S.E.C. is investigating rampant pornography surfing by employees on their work computers.
The blog writes:

Now we’ve obtained reports of 16 investigations into porn-surfing by SEC employees and contractors (one of them is a woman!), including one man who said his daily porn viewing at work was limited to “no longer than an hour and a half a day.”

The sixteen cases reported by Gawker follows a February article by The Washington Times, which first reported details of the S.E.C.’s internal investigation.
In a semiannual report by the S.E.C.’s internal watchdog to Congress released in December, H. David Kotz, the S.E.C.’s inspector general outlines numerous cases of misconduct by former and current employees, including two instances of S.E.C. officials using their office computers to view pornography on the Internet

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on March 24th, 2010 at 9:07 am

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