Securities and Exchange Commission officials circumvented federal salary rules to pay an employee a $315,000 salary and $120,000 in living expenses in just over a year, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner.

A memo from the commission’s inspector general described the refusal of then-SEC Executive Director Diego Ruiz, who was responsible for the hiring decision, to cooperate with federal investigators.

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