SEC Inspector General Reports of Investigation: In recent years, investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) have exposed a wide range of serious misconduct, including the agency’s failure to crack down on the Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes, retaliation against whistleblowers, conflicts of interest, revolving door abuses, the failure to take action against Bear Stearns, insider trading by SEC employees, and much more. Unfortunately, most of these reports are nowhere to be found on the SEC or OIG’s website. POGO has obtained many of the OIG’s recent investigative reports through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and from other sources. We’ve made the reports searchable and are compiling them here as a resource to the public. Reports that have not been posted on the SEC or OIG’s website are marked in red.”