A New York man has been sentenced to five months in federal prison and five months of electronic monitoring for sending threatening e-mails to two executives of the online auction site eBay.

Florin Horicianu, 34, pleaded guilty last May to two charges of transmitting threatening interstate communications. He admitted that he sent e-mails in May 2004 from an Internet cafe in New York City to eBay servers in San Jose, directed to the company’s founder, Pierre Omidyar, and chief executive, Meg Whitman.

The messages said the sender would haunt and hurt them and their families and that he would find them anywhere, prosecutors said.

Horocianu was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge James Ware and is scheduled to report to prison June 5. Ware also ordered him to have no contact with eBay or any of its employees for three months after completing his sentence.

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Posted: 04|26|06 at 9:27 am. Filed under: US Auction News.