Facebook Details Ceglia Fraud, Pushes for Expedited Discovery in Ownership Case

Facebook has issued its most plainly-worded and specific attack yet against claims by Paul Ceglia that he owns part of the company. “The contract is a cut-and-paste job, the emails are complete fabrications,and this entire lawsuit is a fraud,” it declares as part of a court motion that would require Ceglia to quickly produce his still-scanty evidence.

The document then goes on to contradict specific parts of Ceglia’s story. While it openly acknowledges, as before, that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Ceglia had at one point entered in a business relationship, that’s where the similarities end.

Ceglia and Zuckerberg did exchange emails, and did sign an agreement, but their discussions and agreement concerned only some coding work that Zuckerberg performed for StreetFax.com,—

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