Paul Ceglia To Facebook: I Didn't Forge A Contract, You Did!
from the nice-try dept
We just wrote about how, during the discovery process in the lawsuit in which Paul Ceglia claims he only recently discovered a contract giving him more than 50% of Facebook, Facebook found an original contract with identical handwriting on it, that has nothing to do with Facebook, suggesting that Ceglia forged the contract at the center of the dispute.
Ceglia’s main argument appears to be that the original “authentic contract” Facebook says it found is really just a Photoshopped image the company planted on his computer. He says he and his lawyers reportedly knew about it for some time and willingly handed it over to Facebook. He declares that his team will prove the image in question “has no authenticating properties whatsoever.”The rest of the article is pretty funny. As we've mentioned in the past, Ceglia has had trouble keeping lawyers, as most of his lawyers have ditched him after becoming more aware of the details of the case. That's generally a huge warning sign that the lawyers don't believe the client. In this article, Ceglia claims that he's looking for a more "collaborative" law firm, and is trying to open source his defense via a wiki (good luck with that). Nothing in the claims that Ceglia makes in this article make him sound any more credible. He's about to lose this lawsuit.
Ceglia speculates it could have been Zuckerberg himself, or the US law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe that may have done the alleged dirty work. He also says Facebook co-founder Eduardo Savrin accused Orrick of “conspiring with Zuckerberg to deprive him of his shares during his case.”
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He's reaching
On another note I checked out the zdnet article. A lot of commenters there seem, um.. special. A lot of rage against Facebook.
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Re: He's reaching
Sadly that would have sounded about as realistic as his current claims.
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lisa simpson was made a were of the fact that ZUCKERBERG had sign a contract to PAUL CEGLIA years a go 'and was a were that on a video disk ZUCKERBERG openly admitted ;saying that facebook was not his idea but david idea; lisa got a court order to get the two disks and distorted the sound track on the disk in a deliberate act to hid the fact zuckerberg stole the idea facebook ; And lisa simpson was made a were of the fact that ZUCKERBERG had sign a contract the facebook to PAUL CEGLIA by TONY MERCHANT of the law firm merchant law merchant law
Orrick, the firm Eduardo Savrin accused of conspiring with Zuckerberg to deprive him of his shares from the stolen idea facebook" perjury and conspiring along with Zuckerberg to protect the stolen empire
ORRICK When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Sadly most of the people in orrick don’t wish to bite the hands that feeds them
ORRICK As Putin put it living like a Parasite ; You now the truth about mark zuckerberg
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Seriously?
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Dumb Jerk!
There's no way on earth anyone with even a smidgen of intelligence (and that includes lawyers, judges and juries) would believe such a lame excuse,on par with: "My dog ate the homework."
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Until the award is finalised, I mean "out_of_the_blue" is also in the running, all contenders should be sent the following Link http://www.ehow.com/how_2049858_make-tinfoil-hat.html making sure to follow the mandatory Tip/Warning of
As for an award, since I am tossing up between this one or this one
CONSPIRACY - Cliques of Normals Secretly Performing Insidious Rituals Aimed at Controlling You!
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I suspect that whichever side loses in this dispute will then face an investigation into possible fraud and forgery charges.
This may explain some of the desperation and `win at all costs` attitudes among the parties.
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