Bizarre EBay Cyberstalking Plot to Draw Four Guilty Pleas
- Macabre scheme included bloody mask sent to critical blogger
- Ex-CEO isn’t charged but spurred plot with texts, U.S. says
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The eBay Inc. cyberstalking case advanced on Wednesday as four former employees of the online auctioneer said they would admit they took part in an elaborate scheme to intimidate a blogger critical of the company.
The four defendants were lower-level employees and don’t include James Baugh, eBay’s former senior director of safety and security, or David Harville, former director of global resiliency, who deny wrongdoing. But the four could cooperate with federal prosecutors in the pursuit of Baugh and Harville.