eBay to Cough Up $3M After Harassing, Stalking Couple Who Ragged on Site

Turns out that all the money in the world can’t buy you thick skin.

eBay has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a criminal probe into a Massachusetts couple’s nightmarish experience at the hands of some of its top brass, who terrorized them—sending them live spiders, cockroaches, fly larvae, and a bloody pig mask—in the summer of 2019 over their e-commerce newsletter.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged eBay with stalking, witness tampering and obstruction of justice more than three years after the seven employees behind the harassment campaign were prosecuted in the vindictive and disturbing scheme to intimidate David and Ina Steiner. (Four of the employees were sentenced to prison time over the plot. Two were handed a year of home confinement, while the seventh member of the ring has yet to be sentenced.)

Read more at The Daily Beast.