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Porn-watching SEC
workers disciplined,
counseled

Posted 23h 21m ago |

By P. Solomon Banda, Associated Press

DENVER — The U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission has counseled or
disciplined 24 employees who accessed
pornographic sites on government
computers between 2005 and 2010 as the
U.S. financial system teetered and almost
collapsed.

By
Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images fileThe
Securities and Exchange Commission seal on
the agency’s headquarters in Washington.Enlarge

By Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images file

The Securities and Exchange Commission seal on the
agency’s headquarters in Washington.

In a letter dated March 3, the SEC responded
to a Freedom of Information Act request by
Denver attorney Kevin Evans listing the
offices of the employees. They were in
Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Chicago, Los
Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Fort Worth.

In addition to the federal employees, the SEC
disclosed the names of contractors whose
employees were investigated by the Office of
the Inspector General. According to the
letter, the contractors were: Labat-
Anderson, CACI International, Garda
Security, Keane Federal and ISN. Seven
employees who worked for those
contractors were investigated, but the SEC
did not release their names.

ON DEADLINE: IG report: Several top
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The Denver Post first reported about the
letter on its online edition Tuesday. A copy
was obtained by the Associated Press.

Regional SEC Director Donald Hoerl did not
immediately return a message seeking
comment. Two of the five contractors did
not immediately return messages left by the
Associated Press.

During the court case to unseal the
documents last year, SEC human resource
director Jeffrey Risinger said that none of the

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