I had forgotten about this thread and this story. Ebay Global Security heads engaged in a criminal conspiracy because a blogger said mean things. They were entirely out of control and got busted when they flew to the bloggers home town to break in and place GPS trackers.
https://twitter.com/DirkSchwenk/status/1272741786314825729
When busted, they then engaged in a conspiracy to cover it up, including the head of Ebay Global Security pretending to be someone else when he talked to the cops. Subsequent charges filed for witness tampering and obstructing a federal investigation. theregister.com/2020/11/04/fed…
5 of 7 of the members of conspiracy pleaded guilty in November, and the first was sentenced on July 27: 18 months in prison; a year of home confinement and 2 more years supervised release. justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/for…
The two dumfxs that did not plead guilty were the Senior Director of Safety and Security and the Director of Global Resilency. They acted on the orders from the (as yet) uncharged former CEO to "take down" the blogger. They are looking at YEARS in prison. Over a blog.
They will get a much harsher penalty because they initiated the op nad then ordered one of their employees to lie to the cops about it. bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2…
The husband of the blogger sums it up: “Basically this is corporate terrorism,” David Steiner said. “They weaponized their security department to make death threats against my wife, to try and burn our business down.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Bottom line: this is incredibly lawless stuff by people that have a background in law enforcement. Glad they are getting what's coming.
h/t to @wwgrooms for reminding me about this thread.
h/t to @wwgrooms for reminding me about this thread.
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