[haunter]

Brian Gilbert, 56, of San Jose, Calif., former Senior Manager of Special Operations for eBay’s Global Security Team, was sentenced to time served, one year of supervised release with the special condition that he have no contact with either of the victims in the case and a $20,000 fine

Jim Baugh, 47, of San Jose, Calif., eBay’s former Senior Director of Safety and Security, was sentenced to 57 months in prison

David Harville, 50, of Las Vegas, Nev., former Director of Global Resiliency, was sentenced to 24 months in prison

Stephanie Popp, 34, of Louisville, Ky., former Senior Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to 12 months in prison

Philip Cooke, 56, of San Jose, Calif., a former Senior Manager of Security Operations, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and 12 months of home confinement

Stephanie Stockwell, 28, of Redwood City, Calif., a former Manager of Global Intelligence, was sentenced to one year in home confinement

Veronica Zea, 28, of San Jose, Calif., a contract intelligence analyst, was sentenced to one year in home confinement

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

[happytoexplain]

No consequences for executives, and yet their ostensibly enormous responsibility is how their salaries and benefits are always justified.

[jimnotgym]

What I really don't understand is why the security people who sent to jail didn't drop their boss in it in return for diminishing their role

[JumpCrisscross]

There is a chance there wasn’t anything incriminating. The top guys kept conversations live or intimated they wanted something done; the lowers took the planning and execution upon themselves.

[siva7]

Yup, i've worked long enough with senior mgmt to know that anything of interest for prosecution won't be written down, especially not on company devices. Those making the mistakes of writing things down are those actually prosecuted, the ranks and files.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Mobsters have it down to an art.

"You take care of it." means "Murder him and dump the body into a building foundation."

"I don't see any problems." can mean "The ambush will happen at the scheduled time. Vinnie will clean up the bodies."

etc.

You'll also see a lot of politicians using "dog whistle" statements, that are interpreted by listeners to mean something entirely different from the stated words.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Mobsters have it down to an art

Non-mobsters aren’t always as careful. There is a good chance these guys just weren’t properly investigated.

[Scramblejams]

A good fictional example of this I often think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH5j9RHCBpM

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Dealing with turbulence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

[alexpotato]

Wasn't the strategy of Mafia bosses to say something vague like "I sure wish that guy would go away".

It was implicit that they wanted someone killed but if brought up in court they could say "I was just expressing an opinion, not giving an order"

[teamonkey]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

[tempest_]

If by mafia you mean English Crown sure.

[lenerdenator]

I'm not a lawyer, but isn't RICO meant to give a way to prosecute those who are at the top of organizations that have people committing crimes like this?

[dspillett]

Possibly because they hope for gainful employment in future, and being a whistleblower of any variety tends to massively reduce the chances of that.

[vlovich123]

Cush consulting jobs after the fact. You don’t burn your social network unless the alternate is serious jail time. Given the slaps on the wrists described, clearly the after conviction pay day is more valuable.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Cush consulting jobs after

Do you have evidence any of these folks got these?

[Barbing]

Or generally, if any tech criminals now show nice consulting gigs on their LinkedIns and seem to have traction.

Wonder if any Enron perps are doing well, or Bernie Madoff’s associates, or if Elizabeth Holmes or SBF had righthand men…

[robotswantdata]

When will the executives face criminal trial too?

“ The seven members of eBay’s security team were all criminally charged and sentenced to prison, home confinement or time served.

Other executives went on to other corporate jobs. Wymer and Wenig left eBay in September 2019, before the charges were filed. The following year, Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

The Steiners sued the trio and other former executives along with the company in the case that led to the $56mn payout. Under the terms of the settlement, Wenig agreed to pay $2mn, Jones must contribute $500,000 and Wymer $50,000, according to the pair’s lawyers.”

[polytely]

Do we know what AI startup? I think its important for people to know when they do business with that startup.

[dqv]

https://symbolic.ai/team

[12_throw_away]

And on the other hand, let's see how the C-suite made out:

  Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

(These were the Chief Communication Officer, CEO, and SVP for Global Operations, respectively)

[JumpCrisscross]

> Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley lists its corporate donors as including Alliance Roofing · Amgen Foundation · Applied Materials · ASML · Comcast · Deloitte · EY · First Tech Federal Credit Union · Fremont Bank Foundation · Groundworks · Microsoft · NetApp · Peninsula Building Materials (PBM) · Project Learn / Panda Cares · Rite Aid Healthy Futures. If you work at or with any of these, flag this reporting to them.

The organization also appears to work with the City of San Jose and the Morgan Hill school district. (An abusive alleged excon running a kids’ charity is absurd to the point of being hilarious. Whoever was supposed to vet him for hiring should also find a new calling.)

[cogogo]

I adore our local boys and girls club, our kids are there every weekday and they adore it too. We have donated a little bit of money monthly for almost a decade. I do not love the big money vanity donors but they are what make the place tick.

This is another level… I would be so angry if this clown were running our metro area. I feel obligated to write letters to all of those donors even though we are on the other coast.

[JumpCrisscross]

> our kids are there every weekday and they adore it too. We have donated a little bit of money monthly for almost a decade

Write to the national organization. Like, this guy is credibly accused of—and has settled claims around—seriously abusive behavior. He should not be around kids.

Simple, one page: I am a donor and a parent who trusts their kids to your organization. I saw this reporting and was shocked.

It may honestly not be on their radars.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> Whoever was supposed to vet him for hiring should also find a new calling.

I don't think people at that level are really "vetted," these days[0].

[0] https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/07/on-the-run-for-20-yea...