A new report obtained by CNN shows that high-ranking Security and Exchange Commission officials spent hours downloading pornographic content on government computers during the financial crisis.
According to CNN, a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office said, "the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time."
The report said over half the employees downloading pornography had salaries ranging between $99,000 and $223,000. One of the employees spent as much as eight hours a day on pornography sites.
CNN said the report found that the employee who spent as much as eight hours on pornography sites "downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office."
In another case, a regional office staff accountant reportedly used her SEC laptop to attempt to access pornographic sites nearly 1,800 times in a two week period. In addition, she had around 600 pornographic images on the laptop.
Another case saw an SEC accountant using his SEC computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos to pornographic websites.
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