How confidential are closed-door meetings at the Securities and Exchange Commission? If an executive session involving representatives of JPMorgan last year is at all typical, not very.
A new report by the Commission’s Office of Inspector General (website The Hill obtained and published a copy) found a variety of ways that nonpublic information from SEC executive sessions may not be well-protected, including media leaks, failing to clear the meeting room of unrelated observers, that the room isn’t soundproof, and the practice of sending confidential attachments to personal e-mail accounts.
