In mid-2019, a group of corporate employees based in Silicon Valley launched a months-long campaign of online harassment, threats and physical surveillance targeting a middle-aged couple living near Boston, Massachusetts, who ran an online newsletter covering eCommerce. The employees worked for in the global resiliency unit at eBay, one of the largest, oldest Silicon Valley companies. The bizarre episode led to a high-profile federal prosecution of seven people in Boston federal court and a major civil suit against current and See more +
In mid-2019, a group of corporate employees based in Silicon Valley launched a months-long campaign of online harassment, threats and physical surveillance targeting a middle-aged couple living near Boston, Massachusetts, who ran an online newsletter covering eCommerce. The employees worked for in the global resiliency unit at eBay, one of the largest, oldest Silicon Valley companies. The bizarre episode led to a high-profile federal prosecution of seven people in Boston federal court and a major civil suit against current and former eBay executives. Both matters are ongoing.
Jones Day's Andy Lelling and Amy Harman Burkart brought the federal criminal case against eBay, when Lelling was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts and Burkart was the Chief of the Cybercrime Unit in that office. In this podcast, these veteran enforcement lawyers explain what companies must do to mitigate the risk of corporate exposure arising from employee misconduct, with a focus on management expectations, the importance of internal reporting and communications across teams, and the role corporate executives must play in encouraging compliance through modeling ethical behavior. See less -
