Wouldn’t this be a spectacular kick in the balls? I would HOWL if Zuckerberg had to cut a cheque for this fraudster for several billion dollars. Couldn’t happen to a nice guy. ha!
[quote=“Business Insider”]Remember Paul Ceglia?
He’s the fellow in upstate New York who sued Mark Zuckerberg last July, claiming that, way back in 2003, Zuckerberg had agreed to give him a 50% ownership in the project that became Facebook.
That claim seemed preposterous at the time, not least because Ceglia had waited 7 years to file it.
And there was also the fact that Ceglia was a convicted felon, having been charged with criminal fraud in connection with a wood-pellet company he operated.
In the weeks following the filing of the lawsuit, Ceglia produced what Ceglia said was a copy of the contract he and Mark Zuckerberg had signed covering two projects on which the two were working together–a Ceglia project called “StreetFax” and a Zuckerberg project called “the face book.” He also produced a canceled check for $1,000. He also explained why he waited 7 years to file the claim.
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But now Paul Ceglia has refiled his lawsuit. With a much larger law firm. And a lot more evidence.
And the new evidence is startling.
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Lastly, Ceglia contends that, in accordance with the original agreement, he was entitled to an equal share of Zuckerberg’s ownership in the corporation.
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And what do we think, having looked at this new batch of evidence?
We think that, if the emails and contract Ceglia produced are indeed fake, the fraud should be easy to expose (so easy, in fact, that we imagine DLA Piper’s investigators would already have exposed it–which leads us to question whether the emails and contract really are fake). We also think that, if the emails are fake, Paul Ceglia will be going to jail for a long, long time–a consequence that we assume was not lost on him. It’s one thing to allegedly defraud a few local customers by selling them wood pellets that you then don’t deliver. It’s another to try to defraud a major corporation out of hundreds of millions of dollars (or more).
Meanwhile, we think that if the Ceglia emails and contract are NOT demonstrably fake, Facebook will soon be paying Paul Ceglia several hundred million dollars–if not billions–in a settlement.
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In short, to us at least, the emails don’t read “fake.”[/quote]