Monday, 29 October 2012

Man claiming half ownership of Facebook arrested on fraud charges

Paul Ceglia claims to own half of Facebook

A man claiming to own half of Facebook was arrested at his rural New York home 26 October and charged with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg.


Paul Ceglia, of Wellsville, New York, filed a federal lawsuit in 2010, citing documents and a contract between him and Zuckerberg that promised him 50 percent of the social networking site.


By: David Kravets, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/29/half-ownership-of-facebook

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