SEC Staffers Watched Lots Of Porn While Economy Crashed

Well this could have doubled as today’s Chyron of the Day: “Report: SEC Staffers Surfed Porn During Financial Meltdown.”

Yes, the Associated Press has obtained a memo detailing all the porn SEC employees have been looking at, especially as the financial crisis really heated up.

From the AP report:

The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.

Some specific major offenders included one senior attorney who “spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography” and an accountant who “was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as ‘Sex’ or ‘Pornography.'”

Wow – solid work ethic on both counts. Cable news has, and will continue, to cover the story. From Rick Leventhal’s report on Fox News: “Investigators say as the economy got worse, the number of SEC attorneys looking at porn on the job actually skyrocketed.”

(Insert your own joke here – in the comments). Here’s FNC’s report:

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