DENVER -- Highly paid employees at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Denver regional office and six other locations were "counseled or disciplined for accessing pornography sites" at work, according to a new disclosure.

The Office of Inspector General publicly disclosed last year that 33 SEC employees and agency contractors were investigated for viewing porn or sexually explicit websites on government computers and time from 2005 through 2010.

"Many of the employees who engaged in such conduct were at a senior level and earned substantial salaries through their government employment," the OIG revealed in a summary report, noting that 17 employees had an annual salary of at least $99,356.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Denver attorney Kevin Evans, the SEC stated in a March 3 letter that agency employees caught in the porn probe worked in Denver; Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Fort Worth, Texas; Los Angeles; and Washington.

The letter, issued by the SEC's Office of the General Counsel, didn't breakdown the number of disciplined or counseled SEC employees working at each office.

The contractor employees who were disciplined or counseled worked for Labat-Anderson, CACI International, Garda Security, Keane Federal and ISN Corporation, the letter said.

Evans, a securities attorney who defends people investigated by the the SEC, said he was already fed up with "the brazen approach that the SEC has taken over the number couple of years that I've done SEC work. It's this holier than thou attitude.”

But he said what really pushed him over the edge was reading in a 2010 Washington Times expose that some of the porn-surfing public servants were pricey government attorneys.

"It turns out that a number of these folks are high-priced government lawyers," he said Tuesday. "We're talking about some of these folks making in excess of $200,000 of year and spending quite a bit of their of time … searching porn."

"Now look, I'm no a prude. I really don’t care what these people do on their own time," he added.

“But, as a taxpayer, when somebody's … supposed to be out there protecting us from fraud, etc, and instead what they're doing is wasting our taxpayer dollars, sitting there pleasuring themselves at that office, that really upsets me."

He noted that several of the porn abuses occurred "right before the stock market tanked in 2008," when critics say securities regulators failed in their oversight of financial markets and unscrupulous investment advisers.

Highlights from the Inspector General's report last year:

A regional office staff accountant received more than 16,000 access denials for Internet websites classified by the Commission's Internet filter as either "sex" or "pornography" in a one-month period. In addition, the hard drive of this employee's SEC laptop contained numerous sexually suggestive and inappropriate images.

A headquarters senior attorney admitted accessing Internet pornography and downloading pornographic images to his SEC computer during work hours so frequently that, on some days, he spent eight hours accessing Internet pornography. In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office.

A regional office senior enforcement attorney accessed pornographic images from his SEC laptop during work hours and saved sexually explicit images to his computer hard drive. The OIG also found a thumb drive connected to his SEC laptop that contained five distinct videos depicting hard core pornography.

Evans said many people have asked him why he's been dogged in his one-man war against government porn watching.

Many of his public records requests have been rejected. Evans sought the release of the SEC employees' names. But a federal judge denied his request in December.

"As a lawyer, I find this particularly offensive," he said.

"If I did in private practice what they have gotten away with doing -- which is bill clients for hours and hours and hours for sitting at a computer looking at porn -- I got to tell you my license would be suspended at the very least," Evans said.

"And as far as I know, no action has been taken against (the SEC attorneys') professional licenses as a result of this," he added.

But some SEC employees lost their jobs.

In a document Evans obtained last year, the SEC said 24 employees who were investigated either resigned or were suspended, counseled or reprimanded.