STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with securities regulators in trouble.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: An internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange Commission says top staffers, who were supposed to be monitoring financial markets, were surfing the Web. And not just surfing the Web - they were searching for pornography on their office computers.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: The SEC's inspector general has investigated more than 30 employees. One senior attorney reportedly spent up to eight hours per day looking at and downloading pornography.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: The news comes at a time when the SEC is trying to repair its image as being ineffectual during the period leading up to the financial crisis.
An internal watchdog at the Securities and Exchange Commission says top staffers, who were supposed to be monitoring financial markets, were surfing the web for pornography on their office computers. According to reports, the SEC's inspector general has investigated more than 30 employees.