James Baugh, 47, of San Jose, California — eBay’s former senior director of security and safety — admitted Monday in federal court docket in Boston to 9 costs
A former prime safety government at eBay Inc. has pleaded responsible to his position in a marketing campaign to harass and intimidate a Massachusetts couple who printed a web-based publication he perceived as important of the corporate.
James Baugh, 47, of San Jose, California — eBay’s former senior director of security and safety — admitted Monday in federal court docket in Boston to 9 costs in reference to the marketing campaign that concerned disturbing deliveries — amongst them, reside bugs, a bloody pig face masks and a e book on surviving the lack of a partner — to the victims’ house, federal prosecutors stated.
The intimidation began when senior executives at eBay grew to become annoyed with the publication’s tone and content material, in response to federal paperwork.
The harassment marketing campaign additionally included on-line posts inviting the general public for sexual encounters on the victims’ house, and a visit to the Boston space to spy on the victims with the intention of putting in a GPS machine of their automobile, federal authorities stated.
The couple from Natick noticed the surveillance and contacted native police. After studying of police involvement, Baugh lied to investigators, deleted digital proof and falsified information, authorities stated.
A voicemail was left Tuesday with Baugh’s legal professional.
Baugh was considered one of seven eBay staff or contractors charged within the harassment scheme that ran from August 2019 till August 2020. He’s the sixth to plead responsible. One has pleaded not responsible and is awaiting trial. San Jose-based eBay has beforehand stated they have been fired.
Baugh faces many years in jail at sentencing scheduled for Sept. 22, if he receives the utmost sentence.
The Massachusetts couple, Ina and David Steiner, who publish the publication EcommerceBytes, sued eBay and a number of other staff together with former CEO Devin Wenig final summer season over what they described as a conspiracy to “intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them” in an effort to “stifle their reporting on eBay.”
The lawsuit alleges the workers have been “finishing up the directives of Wenig” and one other government. Wenig was not criminally charged, has denied any data of the harassment marketing campaign, and his attorneys have requested that the Steiners’ claims towards him be dismissed.
