Posted on 09/29/2022 4:39:32 PM PDT by algore
BOSTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Two former eBay Inc (EBAY.O) security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass and intimidate a Massachusetts couple through threats and disturbing home deliveries after their online newsletter drew the ire of the company's then-CEO.
Jim Baugh and David Harville were sentenced to 57 and 24 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in an extensive harassment campaign that involved sending the couple cockroaches, a funeral wreath and a bloody Halloween pig mask.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris, who imposed the sentences during hearings in Boston, called it a "hard-to-imagine" scheme fueled by a "toxic culture" at the Silicon Valley e-commerce company.
"It was extreme and outrageous," Saris said.
She ordered Baugh, eBay's former senior director of safety and security, and Harville, its former director of global resiliency, to also pay fines of $40,000 and $20,000, respectively, after pleading guilty to cyberstalking-related charges.
In court, they each apologized to David and Ina Steiner, a married couple in Natick, Massachusetts, who produce the newsletter EcommerceBytes and spoke of being relentlessly terrorized by eBay's employees.
"As agents of eBay, they made our lives a living hell," David Steiner told the judge.
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The beginning if anyone cares
[eBay’s former senior director of safety and security]
uhhh......
I hope this couple clean Ebay’s clock.
I heard about this a few years ago. I’m glad they were identified, arrested and are to be locked up for a good while. The harrassment was a way over the top reaction to professional critism. Both men need a few years of deep psychoanalysis. That can be started while they are living in cages.
EBAY yea to date:
37.70 USD -29.10 (-43.56%)
Such fine, upstanding people in the government these days.
Ok ya former Cia eBay needs a major emena
Ebay was not as sophisticated as google, FB, and twitter in their methods of eliminating those they want gone.
YUP.
Did they say why the couple was being harassed?
It seems they ran a newsletter critical of Ebay.
They must be Republicans
Not enough jail time at their country club prisons.
Not nearly enough fines either.
“Reporrt to prison after Thanksgiving...”...country club prison
Becauss ebay didn’t like what they were reporting about the company.
Cut the pig in half!
Wait, it was a pig mask? Thought it was a pig.
Ebay executives use Amazon to buy things apparently.
All of Big Tech needs an enema. I know because I used to be a part of it.
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