https://www.universalhub.com/2024/ebay-agrees-3-million-fine-trying-destroy-lives Skip to main content Hey, there! Log in / Register [1]Universal Hub * Neighborhoods * Crime * The T * Development * Fire * Reviews * Boston English * Boston Answers * Facebook * Twitter * RSS * RSS * Search Home >> Natick eBay agrees to $3 million fine for trying to destroy lives of Natick couple; couple's civil suit continues By adamg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 1:42pm Pig mask and book on grief Among the items company goons sent couple: Bloody-pig mask and grief book. California-based online swapping-post concern eBay has agreed to a $3 million fine for the terror campaign its executives and employees waged against a Natick couple who ran an online news site that published items the company didn't like, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. The fine is for the criminal charges the company faced in a new filing in US District Court in Boston today: Two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Separately, Ina and David Steiner have their own civil suit against the concern, which in 2019 launched a campaign that included sending them live cockroaches and spiders, a fetal pig, pizzas and a bloody-pig-face mask, sending pornographic magazines in David Steiner's name, posting bogus Craigslist ads for sexual events at their home and attempting to torment the couple through Twitter postings and direct messages. The items were purchased through Amazon and other online purveyors of such things. In addition to all this, an eBay goon squad flew to Boston and attempted to harass and monitor the couple, in part by placing a GPS device on their car - all orchestrated from a Boston hotel where one executive listened to a Natick police channel to warn his fellow corporate thugs if police seemed to be on the way. Later, they lied to a Natick police detective, whom they derided as a stupid hick, only he proved to play a key role in their undoing when he went to the FBI for help. Several of the executives and employees were arrested and convicted on federal charges. One executive, security head Jim Baugh, got nearly five years in prison. The company's CEO at the time, Devin Wenig, was referenced, but not by name, in federal charging documents. He was never charged, but did lose his job. In addition to Baugh, former head of security, the convicted eBay minions are: David Harville, former Director of Global Resiliency, who was sentenced to 24 months in prison in September 2022; Stephanie Popp, former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, who was sentenced to 12 months in prison in October 2022; Philip Cooke, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement in July 2021; Stephanie Stockwell and Veronica Zea, a former Manager of Global Intelligence and a contract intelligence analyst, respectively, who were each sentenced to one year in home confinement in October and November 2022. Brian Gilbert, a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, has pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing. Complete federal "information" against eBay (2.4M PDF). Neighborhoods: Natick Topics: Business Free tagging: eBay * facebook * twitter * email * print * Reply Ad: [INS::INS] Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks! Comments Wow . Absolute scum. Will By anon on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 2:08pm. Wow . Absolute scum. Will never use eBay again. up 9 * reply So if I understand correctly, By xyz on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 2:47pm. So if I understand correctly, the plan was to mail them gross things, order pizzas to their house, and try to get people to come to fake sex parties there? A $3 million fine is going to be the least of eBay's worries once the government finds out they have a bunch of 11-year-olds working there. up 6 * reply Read the rest of the post ... By adamg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 2:53pm. Seven actual eBay executives, employees and contractors were previously criminally charged. Some got prison terms. up 14 * reply You don't By dan r on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 3:00pm. Try knowing wtf you're talking about before shooting your mouth off? up 5 * reply And if you just can't get enough ... By adamg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 2:52pm. Of this horrible, loathsome example of corporate thuggery in overdrive, there's a documentary coming out on the whole thing. up 13 * reply Broken link By mg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 3:00pm. . up 4 * reply Sorry By adamg on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 4:48pm. Broken link fixed. up 3 * reply If it wasn't real By BostonDog on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 3:42pm. I'd think it was the premise of a Wes Anderson film. up 4 * reply Maybe Anderson, but... By SomervilleSteve on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 4:58pm. ...for my money, this is a Coen Brothers story! up 4 * reply As a widow who grieves my By anon on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 3:07pm. As a widow who grieves my young husband's sudden death from a brain aneurysm, this is terrible. Three million dollars is nice but nothing can make the pain of losing your soulmate go away. up 3 * reply Me again. Shout out to all By anon on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 3:16pm. Me again. Shout out to all widows like me. Knowing that this jerk could send a book like this to be used as a threat to someone is making me fill up with anger and grief again. Widows unite! up 4 * reply It's astounding how many people were ... By Lee on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 4:56pm. ... involved in this odious scheme. Not just a few rotten apples here. Sounds like the whole basket was rotten. up 3 * reply I'm still waiting for By Will LaTulippe on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 5:40pm. The cruelty to animals charge for mailing insects to people who aren't scientists and weren't explicitly interested in caring for them. up * reply [INS::INS] Support Universal Hub Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution. 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