Seventh eBay manager charged in live bugs and pig's mask cyberterror campaign against Natick writers

The US Attorney's office in Boston reports a former California police captain is now charged as yet another goon in eBay's attempt to terrorize a Natick couple who wrote things that annoyed the company CEO, by sending them live bugs and threatening Twitter messages and who were caught in part because of their alleged Keystone Kops attempt to place a tracking device on the pair's car.

Philip Cooke, 55, of San Jose, CA, who was a Santa Clara, CA police captain before becoming an alleged eBay enforcer, or supervisor of security operations at eBay’s European and Asian offices, was formally charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses, the US Attorney's office says.

The other six now former eBay employees were charged last month with a campaign that also included lying to what they thought was a bumbling detective from the boonie town of Natick, who in fact proved not so bumbling and who was working with the FBI to find out who was behind the terror campaign, which also included sending a plastic pig's mask to the couple and pornography in the husband's name to neighbors and having pizzas delivered to the couple in the middle of the night, while the alleged pranksters were living on the company dime at the Ritz Carlton in Boston.

CEO Devin Wenig, whom the FBI says triggered his minions to do whatever they had to, has not been charged in connection with the case, although he was also curtly dismissed from his job as the FBI - and the company's own legal department - closed in on his underlings last fall.

Innocent, etc.