Ex-EBay Workers Plead Guilty to Cyberstalking Campaign Roles (1)

Two former eBay Inc. security employees admitted they participated last year in a bizarre harassment campaign against a suburban Boston blogger who angered top executives with posts critical of the company.

Ex-eBay manager Stephanie Popp, 33, and contract analyst Veronica Zea, 26, pleaded guilty Thursday in Boston federal court to conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges for their role in a scheme that involved anonymously sending live cockroaches, a bloody-pig mask and a funeral wreath to the victim’ s home.

Prosecutors said at the hearing before U.S. District Judge William Young that they had agreed to recommend a sentence of ...