Facebook: Ceglia Contract a Forgery
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg smelled something fishy when New York state resident Paul Ceglia filed a lawsuit last month, claiming Zuckerberg owed him 84% of the company.
Ceglia produced a 2003 contract showing that Zuckerberg had hired him to design a social networking site that would later become Facebook in exchange for an ownership percentage. That contract is a complete fabrication, according to Facebook.
“Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that Ceglia’s claims are absurd and we strongly suspect the contract is forged,” said Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes in an email to reporters.
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