Facebook Says "Smoking Gun" Evidence Proves Ceglia to be Fraud
Facebook Says "Smoking Gun" Evidence Proves Ceglia to be Fraud
Posted 08/05/2011 at 2:29pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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When New York resident Paul Ceglia made the shocking claim last year that he owned half of Facebook, there was a palpable mixture interest and disbelief on the Internet. After some legal wrangling, Facebook has now said they have the “smoking gun” proving that Ceglia fabricated the claims. As for what it is, Facebook isn’t saying.
Ceglia was ordered last month to hand over his computers to Facebook so they could be examined. Ceglia claimed to have emails and contracts proving that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signed over control of the company to him. It was the data on his computer that has convinced Facebook’s investigators that Ceglia is a fraud.
The next hearing is scheduled for August 17, where Facebook will seek to make the evidence public. Facebook is valued at nearly $70 billion on the private market. Do you think Ceglia will see any of that?
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Biceps
August 05, 2011 at 10:06pm
Not to be a stick in the mud, but is it common practice to ask the company/entity being sued to examine the computers of the plaintiff? Seems to me they pretty much could have done anything they wanted with those computers, including planting 'smoking guns'. Just sayin'.
jonnyohio
August 07, 2011 at 4:59am
Yeah it makes no sense to me either...who's bright idea was it? Lol
Nimrod
August 06, 2011 at 9:29pm
I was thinking the exact same thing. The guys legal team was retarded for allowing the court to preceed like this.
Gezzer
August 05, 2011 at 11:42pm
I'm with you on that one. You'd think it'd be an impartial 3rd party not investigators representing Facebook.
someuid
August 05, 2011 at 3:13pm
So if he's found to have tried to con Facebook, I wonder what the punishment is?
Gezzer
August 06, 2011 at 4:26pm
He has to use Facebook for all his socializing?
No phone, cell or land, no mail, e or snail, nothing but Facebook. I'd see that as poetic justice. Then again I'm one of the recluse curmudgeons that refuses to join, so I see any use of Facebook as a form of torture.
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