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by abracadaniel 1211 days ago
The bizarre plot was ignited by complaints from eBay’s top management about the Steiner’s coverage of the company and included sending the couple threatening Twitter messages, live spiders, and a funeral wreath, as well as following them around town and trying to install a tracking device on their car in August 2019. Jim Baugh, eBay’s former head of security who orchestrated the plot and traveled to Natick to surveil the couple, received the stiffest sentence of nearly five years in prison.

What the hell is going on at eBay?

2 comments

Boatloads of cocaine or maybe just

> Baugh apologized for his actions and said he was “completely out of control” due to alcohol abuse.

based on how clownish and counterproductive the harassment was -- Like ebay could have buried them under endless meritless lawsuits, or buried them literally through illegal direct action, but certainly not after being on record sending them spiders and funeral wreaths

Oh man security work is way more interesting than I thought.