Damaging Forensics Report Vs. Self-Proclaimed Facebook Co-Owner Paul Ceglia Admitted By Judge

In what may represent the final nail in the coffin containing Paul Ceglia’s ill-fated lawsuit against Facebook and Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York Judge Leslie Foschio allowed Facebook to present a forensics report concluding that the contract between Ceglia and Zuckerberg that purportedly awards Ceglia part ownership in the social network was altered.

In what may represent the final nail in the coffin containing Paul Ceglia’s ill-fated lawsuit against Facebook and Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York Judge Leslie Foschio allowed Facebook to present a forensics report concluding that the contract between Ceglia and Zuckerberg that purportedly awards Ceglia part ownership in the social network was altered.

CNET reported that the report was prepared for Facebook by forensic document examiner and handwriting expert Gus Lesnevich, and Lesnevich found 20 dissimilarities among four images of the contract, all on its first page, indicated that its typeface had been changed and the slant and slope of the letters were different.

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