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Sweetheart deal lets SEC employees get Valentine’s Day deliveries

There is still time to send Valentines flowers to your favorite officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And thanks to some quick action by the agencys employees union, recipients might actually get them.

By Robert Schmidt | Updated on February 13, 2014

Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — There is still time to send Valentine’s flowers to your favorite officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And thanks to some quick action by the agency’s employees’ union, recipients might actually get them.

In what even the regulator’s management acknowledged might be seen as a heartless move, SEC workers were notified earlier this week that the agency was prohibited by law from using government resources for personal reasons — and that included accepting and delivering flowers to employees’ offices.

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