What crisis? Any porn in a storm at the SEC

REGULATORS have often been given stick for being asleep at the wheel during the financial crisis — but not usually because they were too busy looking at porn.

The transcript of a very embarrassing interview with a supervisor at the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that over 17 days in August and September 2008 — a somewhat busy period, you might recall — the unnamed employee tried to look at pornography almost 1900 times on his work PC.

Here’s an extract of the interview, courtesy of Here Is The City: “Our records show that on Wednesday, August 13, 2008, beginning at 1.57pm, you made approximately 85 attempts to access a Website called www.tgirlhotspot.com. Do you have any recollection of attempting to access this site?”

The answer: “I do not personally have recollection of it, but it would not surprise me.” Ditto for www.ladyboyx.com (385 attempts) and www.ladyboyjuice.com (300 attempts). Apparently he was “stressed”.

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