articleThe Brief eBay will pay nearly $50 million to settle a bizarre harassment case involving former employees who targeted a couple with live cockroaches, a bloody pig Halloween mask and other disturbing deliveries. In a 2021 lawsuit, David and Ina Steiner accused eBay of a conspiracy to "intimidate, threaten to kill, torture, terrorize, stalk and silence them" in order to "stifle their reporting on eBay." eBay has agreed to pay nearly $50 million in a bizarre harassment case involving former employees who targeted the founders of an e-commerce newsletter with live cockroaches, a bloody pig Halloween mask and other disturbing deliveries. "What the Steiners were subjected to by former eBay employees in 2019 was wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened." Ina Steiner said she and her husband hoped that "some good will come out of this painful, life-changing experience."