Name: Verb T & Illinformed - First Stone by High Focus Records in Double H
Duration: 3 min 3 s
Description: 'First Stone' is lifted from Verb T & Illinformed's collaborative album 'The Man With The Foggy Eyes' available on limited edition vinyl and CD @ www.high-focus.com

Double H

Track from Datkid's album 'Home By 8'. Production by Baileys Brown.

Natural Born Killers - Bil Next, Datkid, Sirplus & Paro

184 ft Sonny Jim & Dirty Dike - Whose Record

From his incredible album morning process, Verb T's Where you find me.

Verb T - Where You Find Me

"Whatever It Takes" is a narrative concept album based on the true story of the 2019 eBay cyberstalking scandal - when a Fortune 500 company's security team launched a coordinated terror campaign against two bloggers who wrote critical coverage.

Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes, a small newsletter covering e-commerce from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. When Ina wrote about CEO Devin Wenig's compensation, he texted his Chief Communications Officer Steve Wymer: "If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time."

Wymer's responses became evidence:

> We are going to crush this lady
> She is biased troll who needs to get BURNED DOWN
> I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes.

What followed was a "campaign of terror" - seven eBay security employees (including former police captains) sent bloody pig masks, a preserved fetal pig, live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, a book about surviving the death of a spouse, and porn magazines to the couple. They posted Craigslist ads inviting strangers to the Steiners' home. They flew from California to Boston to stalk their car and planned to break into their garage to plant a GPS tracker. They carried fake "Person of Interest" documents. One even pretended to rescue them - the "White Knight Strategy."

David photographed a license plate. The FBI got involved. All seven employees were convicted.

But the executives who gave the orders? The CEO walked away with $57 million in severance. Never charged.

This is a story about corporate power, surveillance turned against citizens, and the two-tier justice system.

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TRACKLIST

00. Prologue: Based on True Events
01. EcommerceBytes
02. The Article
03. Crush This Lady
04. Whatever It Takes
05. Pig Mask
06. The Natick Job
07. Person of Interest
08. White Knight
09. License Plate
10. Fifty-Seven
11. Still Haunted
12. Epilogue

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SOURCES (14 Primary Documents)

This album is based entirely on documented facts. All text message quotes are from evidence admitted in federal court.

Court Documents:
• Deferred Prosecution Agreement: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/media/1332791/dl
• Criminal Information: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/media/1333086/dl

DOJ Case Page (7 press releases):
• https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/case/us-v-ebay-inc

Investigative Journalism:
• "Take Her Down" - Boston Magazine: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/
• CBS 60 Minutes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebay-stalking-scandal-haunts-steiner-couple-60-minutes-2023-03-26/
• San Jose Spotlight: https://sanjosespotlight.com/disgraced-ebay-exec-wielded-power-at-san-jose-city-hall/

SEC Filing (Wenig Severance):
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312519254832/d806459dex101.htm

Wikipedia Overview:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

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KEY FACTS

57 months - James Baugh's prison sentence
$57 million - Devin Wenig's severance
7 - Employees convicted
0 - Executives charged

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DOCUMENTARY NOTE

This album is a dramatic interpretation of documented events. All factual claims are based on the sources listed above.

Dialogue and internal thoughts attributed to real individuals are dramatized for artistic purposes and do not represent their actual words or thoughts unless explicitly quoted from court evidence. Character perspectives (such as executive or security team POV tracks) are narrative devices used for storytelling, not impersonation or claimed mind-reading.

Still Haunted

Dirty Dike - Catch Me If You.....Nah

'Gifted' Feat. Verb T is lifted from BVA's debut solo album 'Be Very Aware' available @ www.high-focus.com

BVA -  Gifted Feat. Verb T

'This Love Is Love' is lifted from BVA's debut solo album 'Be Very Aware' available @ www.high-focus.com

BVA - This Love Is Love

'Rain Or Shine' is lifted from BVA's debut solo album 'Be Very Aware' available @ www.high-focus.com

BVA - Rain Or Shine

'Jeheeze' is lifted from Fliptrix's 5th solo album 'Polyhymnia' available @ www.high-focus.com

Fliptrix - Jeheeze

'Old Earth' is lifted from 'Natural Order', the second album from The Four Owls - Available @ www.high-focus.com

The Four Owls - Old Earth

'First Stone' is lifted from Verb T & Illinformed's collaborative album 'The Man With The Foggy Eyes' available on limited edition vinyl and CD @ www.high-focus.com

The Man With The Foggy Eyes

First Stone

Verb T & Illinformed - First Stone

produced by leaf dog
lyrics by leaf dog
go and buy the single from
www.reallifedramarecords.com
featuring a extra track, accapella and instrumental!

On A Mission

Moraless X Maseman [Devon Boyz] || Never Fading || Prod by. James Tsoi

High Focus Records is proud to present 'Get Out', a brand new single from Ronnie Bosh, produced by Dirty Dike. 'Get Out' is lifted from 'All People Expect', Ronnie Bosh's debut album OUT NOW on High Focus Records. http://www.high-focus.com

All People Expect

Get Out

Ronnie Bosh - Get Out

Cheese On Toast (Prod. Konchis)

High Focus Records was established in 2010 to offer a platform for a new generation of rappers and producers in the UK. 

Twelve years on and nearly 200 releases later, our mission statement remains the same; to champion the most forward-thinking artists, with a key focus on strengthening the pillars that continue to unify the scene to this day (and beyond).


~HFR

Verb T & Illinformed - First Stone

High Focus Records

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