More legal trouble could be in the cards for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Old pal Paul Ceglia claims he’s entitled to half the company in exchange for $1,000 funding he provided in 2003. Ceglia sued Zuckerberg last July, and in the weeks following the suit he presented a contract bearing Zuckerberg’s signature, which gave Ceglia a 50 percent interest in Facebook. Ceglia claimed it took seven years to file the suit because he forgot about the contract and stumbled upon it after being arrested for fraud in a separate incident.
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Facebook Fortune Hunter Files New Evidence-Packed Claim
Posted by: Rob Spiegel April 12, 2011 02:22 PMMore legal trouble could be in the cards for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Old pal Paul Ceglia claims he’s entitled to half the company in exchange for $1,000 funding he provided in 2003. Ceglia sued Zuckerberg last July, and in the weeks following the suit he presented a contract bearing Zuckerberg’s signature, which gave Ceglia a 50 percent interest in Facebook. Ceglia claimed it took seven years to file the suit because he forgot about the contract and stumbled upon it after being arrested for fraud in a separate incident.