My wife works at a small regional Bank in compliance. This problem is government wide let me assure you. Not just the EPA.
Her last audit with the FDIC lasted 6 fricken weeks with the auditor being completely unprofessional.
“My wife works at a small regional Bank in compliance.”
Well there’s the problem right there, now if your wife worked at one of the major Wall Street banks it would be a two minute conversation. This is the real problem, all these laws and regulations are only enforced on the small fry. Those too big to fail or with political connections get a complete pass on all these suffocating bureaucratic regulations. Just look at MF Global, ripped off $1.2 billion dollars of peoples money and the government petitions the courts to pay the executives legal fees and bonuses out of what money is left! We live in a crony capitalist banana republic and both the Democrats and Republicans fully support this system.