I just can't fathom how employees of a company would do all this because someone with a newsletter criticized the company often.

I understand employees committing fraud for their own gain. I don't understand Directors and analysts doing this to someone, especially when senior execs weren't charged. Seems like there were a lot of cover ups going on.

There has to have been more going on, it sure doesn’t add up - unless Ebay was run by a group of cruel Kindergarteners..

At every place I’ve worked, the employees likely had worse thoughts, at least at times, than anything an outsider could publish about the company.