Man Who Sued Facebook and Zuckerberg Indicted for Fraud

Paul Ceglia, the 39-year-old western New York man who in 2010 sued Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for 84% of the company, has been indicted on federal charges of wire and mail fraud for allegedly faking evidence in the case.

Ceglia claimed in his original lawsuit that Zuckerberg promised him a huge stake in Facebook in return for coding work on Facebook performed in 2003. According to this week's indictment, however, Ceglia was indeed contracted to work on Facebook, but he created a falsified contract in which Zuckerberg agreed to provide Ceglia with at least a 50 percent interest in Facebook."

Ceglia, who was arrested and first charged in a criminal complaint last month, is a…
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