Security News > 2020 > November > Feds throw book at eBay execs who deny they had anything to do with cyberstalking of site's critics

Two senior eBay executives who have refused to join their colleagues and plead guilty to charges of cyberstalking have been hit with a string of fresh charges.

James Baugh, 45, was eBay senior director of safety and security, and David Harville, 48, was its director of global resiliency when they were arrested back in June, along with four other eBay employees accused of stalking and intimidating a married couple who published a newsletter for the ecommerce industry that was critical of eBay.

Despite their colleagues admitting waging a campaign against the couple - which included sending disturbing items such as a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse to their home address - both execs maintain they are innocent.

The latest indictment alleges Baugh ran meetings to plan the campaign, and led the effort to create a cover story that the couple had threatened eBay's CEO. It's also claimed Baugh posed as the husband of another eBay employee involved in the pressure campaign when they met a police detective in the lobby of Boston's Ritz Carlton hotel as part of the cops' probe into the stalking.

With the police on their tail, Baugh and Harville tried to hide their involvement by lying to an eBay investigator and deleting evidence on their company cell phones, it is alleged.

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