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Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York wood pellet salesman who claimed to co-own Facebook with Zuck, was just arrested at home on fraud charges. AP reports He could spend his next 40 years in prison. If you’re tempted—don’t.
Ceglia’s claims were always pretty laughable, hinging on (doctored) messages he claimed to have exchanged with Zuckerberg, wherein he gave Mark a grand, entitling him to 50-84% of the company. If the odds of some pellet-selling loon being a Facebook financier seem remote, it’s because they probably are! We’ll see how this plays out in court, but it’s hard to imagine things will go well for Ceglia, who Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says wanted a “quick payday based on a blatant forgery.”
The best way to pretend to own Facebook remains the tried and true “be a tremendously handsome and rich Winklevoss” strategy. [Forbes, AP]
So 40 years for faking something whilst rapists and people convicted of manslaughter get less….wow that’s pretty messed up.
Maybe he shouldn’t try suing a massive corporation based upon fraud then. It’d probably be less anyway and the source only says that he may go to jail. Also not all kinds of manslaughter deserve long prison time.
Yes, don’t mess with those corporations. No bigger injustice in society that I can think of.
Doesn’t matter, it was fraud and we don’t even know what the verdict will be.