Couple harassed by former eBay employees sues company and former executives
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A Massachusetts couple subjected to threats, mailed packages and other bizarre harassment from former employees of eBay filed a lawsuit against the company, its former employees and former CEO Devin Wenig on Wednesday.
David and Ina Steiner, who run the website EcommerceBytes, say in their lawsuit filed in a Boston federal court that the company engaged in a conspiracy to "intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them" in order to "stifle their reporting on eBay." The Natick residents say they were subjected to cyberstalking, death threats, bizarre deliveries and in-person surveillance from company workers. They're seeking damages to be awarded by a jury.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.