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SEC Employees Were Masturbating to Kiddie Porn While Your Economy Tanked [Finance]

Over the past two years, more than a dozen Securities and Exchange employees and contractors have tried to view pornography on government computers at least 8,273 times. Here’s what they were looking at while the global financial system cratered. The Washington Times broke the story of the SEC’s porn problem , which became the subject of numerous inspector general investigations, last month. And Dealbreaker subsequently published one report of an inspector general investigation into an SEC regional supervisor who viewed transvestite porn at work as stress relief. Now we’ve obtained reports of 16 investigations into porn-surfing by SEC employees and contractors (one of them is a woman!), including one man who said his daily porn viewing at work was limited to “no longer than an hour and a half a day.” The man told investigators that his porn habit grew out of looking at photos of men in bathing suits, which is sometimes known as “gateway porn”: It’s unclear from the investigation report precisely what the man did (or does) for the SEC, but its clear from the context of an interview transcript that he attended graduate school and works in a professional capacity. Two video files found on his computer were referred to the FBI because investigators suspected that the men depicted having sex in them were underage: Anyway, here’s the full list of sites referenced in all the investigations. Enjoy!

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SEC Employees Were Masturbating to Kiddie Porn While Your Economy Tanked [Finance]

New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil

Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive emails calling them “fucking lazy motherfuckers.” Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou, a restaurant in the Meatpacking district, described on its website as a “light-filled, airy oasis..

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The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated

In February, we noted the sad decline of the once-posh, boutique-strewn neighborhood of NoLIta, where Gawker HQ is located. We sent the interns back to the streets and have a new report: more sales, more closing, and only some redemption. Below is the updated map of the neighborhood

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The Recession Map of NoLIta: Updated

NYT Profile Helps Twin "Unemployed" Midwestern Girls…Remain Unemployed

This week, the New York Times profiled twins from Ohio who graduated from Rutgers with journalism degrees. They’re 24, and can’t get jobs in New York

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NYT Profile Helps Twin "Unemployed" Midwestern Girls…Remain Unemployed

Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Squeaking By" On $300K A Year

How does the other-other half live?

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Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Squeaking By" On $300K A Year

Harvey Weinstein: Sad, Senile, Barely Surviving The Next Big Thing

Or so goes today’s lacerating NYT piece on The Weinstein Company ‘s fate, “The Weinsteins Scamble to Regain a Golden Touch in Hollywood.” Like old Miramax films, it’s juicy, exciting, illuminating, and troubling. It also lays their survival strategy bare.

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Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Sqeaking By" On $300K A Year

How does the other-other half live? You know, the families who are now forced to “squeak by” on $300K a year? Leave it to the Washington Post to not only find out, but to attempt to elicit empathy! Yes: “squeak by,” as in the article’s title: “Squeaking By On $300,000.” Now, give the writer the benefit of the doubt.

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Washington Post Empathizes With Family "Sqeaking By" On $300K A Year

Dov Charney: I Do Employ Uglies

Pacing American Apparel CEO and full-grown adult Dov Charney is denying our tipster’s report that he’s been purging his stores of “ugly” employees . But hey, would it kill you ugly people to be fashionable, at least? Dov gave the Globe and Mail this less-than-scathing denial : As for Mr

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The Great Condé Nast Receptionist Purge Widens

This could be the unkindest Conde Nast cut of all: A tipster tells us that “as of Monday, Glamour will no longer have a receptionist.” And this may be only the beginning.

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The New York Post’s 61,000 Manhattan Millionaires March Against Health Care

The New York Post is in high dudgeon over Obama’s health plan, blasting a “terrifying” potential 57% “mega-tax” on “successful NYers” under “Obamacare” on the front page. Gosh, that does sound like a lot.

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