Nate Raymond

(Reuters) – An ex-security executive at eBay Inc (NASDAQ) pleaded guilty Monday to harassing a Massachusetts couple. He arranged anonymous tweets (NYSE:), and delivered home delivery packages that contained live insects and a bloody pig mask.

Jim Baugh (ex-Senior Director of Safety and Security at eBay) pleaded guilty before a Boston Federal Court to nine counts, including conspiration, stalking through interstate Travel and witness Tampering.

Baugh, one of seven eBay employees, was charged in 2020 for harassing a Natick couple behind EcommerceBytes.

Two top executives expressed their frustration about the newsletter and Devin Wenig was the former Chief Executive Officer. According to the prosecutors, Ina Steiner and Ina Steiner filed a lawsuit against eBay.

Wenig has not been charged, and denies knowing anything about the scheme. A spokesperson for eBay did not respond immediately to our request for comment about the plea.

Baugh, a former eBay executive, was set to stand trial with David Harville on May 31, as its ex-director of global resilience.

Seth Kosto (assistant U.S. attorneys) said that Baugh, 47 years old, could spend 57-71 months in prison according to federal sentencing guidelines. William Fick was Baugh’s attorney. He said that he would advocate for less. The Sept. 29 sentencing hearing was set.

Prosecutors claimed that the Steiners began to receive harassing, anonymous messages via Twitter in August 2019. They also received what Kosto called “unwanted” and disturbing deliveries to their house. These delivery included a book about surviving the death of a spouse.

According to the prosecution, Baugh was accused of organizing meetings for the delivery and planning of messages with his workers. Baugh also traveled to Massachusetts along with some other employees in order to monitor the couple’s progress and attempt unsuccessfully to put a GPS device on their cars.

Baugh and other defendants deleted social media messages and denied any involvement by eBay employees, after learning that Natick police had begun investigating.