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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
The hits just keep on comin….
Ebay has no place in the American economy.
It’s evil and encapsulated.
Crack it and bury it.
That is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Each of those involved should be looking at nothing less than 5 years and preferably 10 years in Federal Prison where they do not get out early due to overcrowding or some other flimsy excuse. What these people did to Ina and David was so much more damaging than 18 months in prison as they had to live for months in fear for their lives. I know they are going to also be financially compensated for what was done to their lives, but a message needs to be sent to all of corporate America that these types of things will no longer be tolerated and if you do commit the crime be ready to serve some real time for it. As long as they continue to get off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist, or in Wenigs case, not even being charged while walking away with a $57 million hush payment, nothing will ever be done to curb the way corporate America operates and continues to run the country through their financing of their politicians campaigns so they will always be able to do anything they want.
If they are not going to punish them with severe prison terms the starting point for any civil suit or settlement needs to start at $1 billion minimum so these companies finally feel the sting of what they have been doing. At least if the penalties start off that severe they will actually have to think twice before committing these types of acts because that will get the stockholders attention immediately !!!!
Shameful and a former police captain! I guess hiring sleeve is how they do business.
As usual, SIK gets it %100 right.
But in this case – theres just abit more to it then whats being reported by most outlets.
“Convicted eBay Cyberstalker Blames Alcoholism, Seeks Leniency”
A former EBay global security manager who admitted joining a bizarre cyberstalking campaign against an online critic blames alcoholism and a culture of heavy drinking at the company for his poor judgment and an incriminating “thumbs up” emoji he texted to a co-conspirator.
His lawyer said in a court filing that the culture at EBay in 2019 encouraged heaving drinking. Booze was available at a campus bar that opened at 3 p.m. and alcohol was kept in work spaces. “It was typical to take morning shots of alcohol with co-workers,” the lawyer said. EBay didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
HMMMM – what have WE ALL BEEN SAYING ABOUT WALKERS WEST?????????????
I swear no one listens to a d@mn word we say. How many of us said that the slavery towards WALKERS is part of the problem??? STEAL AND RIP OFF SELLERS, then go buy a drink at the company bar!
eBay had a bar on campus that opened at 3:00 p.m., and drinking was part of the culture, with alcohol present throughout the office space where it was typical to take morning shots of alcohol with co-workers,” a sentencing memorandum for 56-year-old defendant Philip Cooke said yesterday. It was filed in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-21/convicted-ebay-cyberstalker-blames-alcoholism-seeks-leniency
MAYBE – they should have concentrated on THIS instead of bothering the Steiners!
Is eBay the New Drug Dealer?
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/drug-addiction/related-topics/ebay-drug-dealer/
Over the past few years, eBay’s customer service department has received complaints about the sale of prescription drugs on their site.
It just doesnt get better for the San Jose Mafia, does it ?
Personally I have no sympathy for Cooke as he was a former Police captain and I am sure had dealt with alcoholics and the effects of what they do on ones life. Yet he suddenly lacked the ability to say no because he felt the need to belong at Ebay. Even the sentence that the prosecutors recommended was light in my opinion because these people had no qualms making life hell on two people whose only crime was to openly tell the truth of how the company was operating and dealing with their customers. Again, the only way that corporate America is going to get the message that this is not acceptable is for those that participate or authorize these types of ordeals to know that they are going to prison if they are caught, just as they have done to CEO’s and CFO’s under Sarbanes Oxley Act. This law was enacted because of the harm caused to investors due to the actions of the executives at Enron and Worldcom as well as the public accounting firm of Arthur Anderson and carries stiff sentences and fines for those that must now also sign the audited financial statements showing that they are aware of all that is going on in the public company.
I would love to see the workpapers of Ebays current auditors and see what all they have accidentally discovered and buried due to considering the amounts of money immaterial. I am sure the money spent on Walkers West and alcohol by Ebay is nothing compared to other things that Wenig authorized during his tenure as the CEO. Clarke knew better, especially as a former police captain, than to do what he was doing yet had no problems falling right in with all the others until he was caught and terminated.
The minimum sentence for those involved in this blatant abuse of power and money because someone had the audacity to print the truth about their company should be at least 5 to 10 years plus a minimum $10 million fine (not counting what will happen in a civil suit) personally so those that get involved suffer just a small amount of angst that they caused the Steiners or anybody else in the future. This is the only way that corporate America is going to be reigned in from abusing those that report on their crimes.