eBay man sentenced to jail
Unhappy eBay online auction customers are legion, but a Romanian programmer and engineer who allowed his anger get the better of him will pay dearly.
Unhappy with eBay’s business practices, he admitted e-mailing threats to eBay chief executive Meg Whitman and company founder Pierre Omidyar.
As a result, he’s been sentenced to five months in prison, says the Associated Press.
“Florin Horicianu, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Ridgewood, N.Y., also received five months of electronic monitoring and was ordered to stay away from eBay employees and events, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Francisco,” says the story.
“Among the statements included in the e-mails was ‘I will haunt and hurt you and your family’.”
