EBay Workers Who Sent Spiders To Couple To Plead Guilty

BOSTON: Four former eBay Inc. employees have agreed to plead guilty to their roles in a campaign of intimidation that included sending live spiders and cockroaches to the home of a Massachusetts couple who ran an online newsletter critical of the auction site, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Four former employees of #eBay are scheduled to plead guilty on Oct. 8 at 2pm via zoom in federal court in #Boston, according to a tweet from the official account of the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts. The defendants are charged w/ participating in a cyberstalking campaign that targeted a Massachusetts couple.






The four expected to plead guilty are Brian Gilbert, 51; Stephanie Popp, 32; Stephanie Stockwell, 26; and Veronica Zea, 26, according to The Boston Globe.

All live in San Jose, California, except for Stockwell, who…

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