New York Man Arrested for Trying to Defraud Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
New York Man Arrested for Trying to Defraud Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg
Paul Ceglia, a New York man who sued Facebook for 84% ownership in 2010, has been arrested.
Ceglia, a web designer turned wood-pellet distributor, was arrested at his home in Wellsville, N.Y., on Friday. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged that Ceglia tried to wring billions of dollars out of Facebook in a con scheme. Ceglia falsely claimed to have been promised a 50% share in Facebook “and then doctored, fabricated, and destroyed evidence to support his false claim,” according to a press release from Bharara’s office. Ceglia will be presented at the federal courthouse in Buffalo this afternoon.
What I find surprising is that it took this long.