{"id":1665269,"date":"2022-09-29T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665269"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:53:44","slug":"ex-ebay-execs-heading-to-prison-for-harassing-couple-behind-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-ebay-execs-heading-to-prison-for-harassing-couple-behind-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-eBay execs heading to prison for harassing couple behind newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-ebay-execs-heading-to-prison-for-harassing-couple-behind-newsletter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Nate Raymond<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (Reuters) \u2013     Two former eBay Inc 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\u2019s then-CEO.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Patti Saris, who imposed the sentences during hearings in Boston, called it a \u201chard-to-imagine\u201d scheme fueled by a \u201ctoxic culture\u201d at the Silicon Valley e-commerce company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was extreme and outrageous,\u201d Saris said.<\/p>\n<p>She ordered Baugh, eBay\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs agents of eBay, they made our lives a living hell,\u201d David Steiner told the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said senior executives deemed the newsletter critical of eBay, and in August 2019 then-Chief Executive Officer Devin Wenig texted another executive that it was time to \u201ctake her down,\u201d referring to Ina Steiner.<\/p>\n<p>Wenig, a former Thomson Reuters executive who stepped down as eBay\u2019s CEO in September 2019, was not charged, though seven other people were. A spokesman said Wenig had \u201cabsolutely zero knowledge\u201d of the actions they undertook.<\/p>\n<p>Overseeing the campaign was Baugh, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee who, according to his lawyer, felt pressure to do something. <\/p>\n<p>At Baugh\u2019s direction, the Steiners received anonymous, harassing Twitter messages, bizarre emails, and unwanted home deliveries like spiders and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>They said other eBay employees involved included Harville, who Baugh recruited with a contractor for an \u201cop\u201d to surveil the Steiners and try unsuccessfully to install a GPS on their car.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit by the Steiners against eBay, Wenig and others remains pending.<\/p>\n<p>(The story is refiled to fix typo in third paragraph to \u2018sentences\u2019)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/ex-ebay-execs-heading-to\/attachment\/sentencing-hearings-for-two-former-ebay-security-exectives-is-held\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11V-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11V-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/ex-ebay-execs-heading-to\/attachment\/sentencing-hearings-for-two-former-ebay-security-exectives-is-held-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11W-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11W-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/ex-ebay-execs-heading-to\/attachment\/sentencing-hearings-for-two-former-ebay-security-exectives-is-held-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11X-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8S11X-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) \u2013 Two former eBay Inc security executives were sentenced to prison on Thursday for carrying out a campaign to harass and intimidate a Massachusetts couple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/business\/ex-ebay-execs-heading-to\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ex-ebay-execs-heading-to","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}