Comment by galkk

3 hours ago

I never heard about it but the way you describe it sounds insane/sketchy, on the level of Tesla/racial slurs story with crazy millions initial verdict that ended up much lesser.

I mean, I can easily imagine mentally unstable person, that happened to be an employee, doing that shit, but I don’t see company with company processes acting like that. Like how do you expense purchasing and mailing dead pig? The life is full of surprises though, so I’m not ruling out corporate involvement completely. Can you provide sources and verdict?

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toofy  3 hours ago

> Can you provide sources and verdict?

sure. directly from the DOJ [0] and another from CBS. [1]

i get it, it sounds insane, but its very real. here ya go.

Department of Justice: [0]

> Jim Baugh, eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, was sentenced to 57 months in prison in September 2022;

> David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022;

> Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022;

> Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021;

> Stephanie Stockwell, a former Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in October 2022; and

> Veronica Zea, a contract intelligence analyst, was sentenced to one year in home confinement in November 2022.

CBS [1]:

> eBay to pay $3 million after couple became the target of harassment, stalking

> Devin Wenig, eBay's CEO at the time, shared a link to a post Ina Steiner had written about his annual pay. The company's chief communications officer, Steve Wymer, responded: "We are going to crush this lady."

> About a month later, Wenig texted: "Take her down." Prosecutors said Wymer later texted eBay security director Jim Baugh. "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," Wymer wrote.

> Investigators said Baugh set up a meeting with security staff and dispatched a team to Boston, about 20 miles from where the Steiners live.

> "Senior executives at eBay were frustrated with the newsletter's tone and content, and with the comments posted beneath the newsletter's articles," the Department of Justice wrote in its Thursday announcement.

theres plenty more links out there if ya need them.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/final-defendant-ebay-cybe...

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-charge-ebay-stalking-scand...