A former eBay Motors employee has taken a decade-long whistleblower case to federal court, alleging he faced retaliation after reporting conflicts of interest involving preferential treatment for an eBay seller and later raising concerns that performance metrics for a 2012 acquisition were being manipulated before being reported to the company's board.
Anson Tse filed suit against eBay September 25 in the Northern District of California, seeking de novo review of claims under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after previously pursuing the case through the Department of Labor.
Tse worked for eBay from 2007 until 2015, starting as Manager, Enthusiast Vehicles before being promoted to Senior Manager in the Vehicles department and eventually serving as interim head of the Parts & Accessories business.
According to the complaint, the events leading to his whistleblower claims began around 2009 when eBay hired Bain & Company to conduct a study of the Vehicles and Parts & Accessories businesses. Bain consultant David Thawley worked on the project and Tse says he had access to eBay's internal data.
Thawley left Bain in 2010 and started Automotive Accessories Outlet, or AAO, selling automotive parts and accessories on eBay. Later that year, eBay Motors executive Famous Rhodes brought Thawley back as an outside consultant while he continued operating AAO.
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