New York Lawsuit Freezes Facebook Assets
July 14th, 2010 - 8:18 pm ICT by GDBy Ranjan Bhaduri
New York, July 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It seems like Mark Zuckerberg and Paul D. Ceglia are in mood for a tussle. All analogies fall short when you have a New York Web designer suing the founder of Facebook for a surprising claim of 84 percent partnership.
The lawsuit was filed against the Facebook founder by Paul Ceglia in the Allegany County Supreme Court of New York. According to the claim made in the lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg had contacted Paul Ceglia way back in the year of 2003 and had assigned them the task of developing a website. As Paul Ceglia puts it forward both the parties had agreed upon a sum of $1,000 as the payment along with a 50 percent stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s company. Additionally, there was a certain percentage of share promised by the company for each and every significant development in the website which got completed in January 2004.
When asked about it, a Facebook spokesperson told the media that the claims made in lawsuit are baseless and stands on vague grounds. He also said that Facebook shall fight it back no matter what the ill or the odds are. No matter what he claims in the lawsuit, Paul Ceglia’s background is a colorful one and when dug deep brings out interesting facts. Paul Ceglia already has an ongoing case on him by the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo where he is accused of defrauding customers for a total sum of $200,000. It involved the orders placed for his wood pellet fuel company. Owing to the lawsuit Judge Thomas Brown have issued a temporary restraining order that shall prevent any and all assets transfers by either Facebook Inc. or Mark Zuckerberg.
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