WHAT IS A TI? PART 6

EXAMPLE:Two former top eBay security executives and four other ex-employees face federal conspiracy charges of stalking the staff of an e-commerce newsletter by sending them live cockroaches and a funeral wreath.

Federal prosecutors claim James Baugh and David Harville led the elaborate harassment campaign, which also included trying to place a GPS tracker on a vehicle belonging to the married couple who own the small newsletter and sending them a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to the FBI.

“We are going to crush this lady,” one executive texted another, according to an FBI affidavit filed in court. The executive wasn’t named in the filing.

The indictments may offer clues to the circumstances of former eBay chief executive officer Devin Wenig’s abrupt departure in September.

EBay said in a statement that “neither the company nor any current eBay employee was indicted” and that it “was notified by law enforcement in August 2019 of suspicious actions by its security personnel toward a blogger, who writes about the company, and her husband” and “immediately launched a comprehensive investigation.” As a result, eBay said, it “terminated all involved employees, including the company’s former chief communications officer, in September 2019.”