Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours
surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they
were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog
says.
The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees
looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo
obtained late Thursday 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.
It was written by SEC Inspector
General David Kotz in response to a request from Sen. Charles Grassley,
R-Iowa. MORE>>>>>>>>>>>
