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Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive
alphadogg writes Paul D. Ceglia, who was arrested in 2012 for defrauding Facebook on the claim that he owns half the company, is now a fugitive. Ceglia cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet some time around last Friday and left home in violation of the conditions of his bail, court papers said. Ceglia claimed in a 2010 lawsuit that he was entitled to half ownership of Facebook under a 2003 contract with Mark Zuckerberg, who had done programming work for Ceglia's StreetFax.com.
The US's private prison system is stuffed to the gills with drug criminals and violent felons, so someone who does a crime that:
A: Is not drug related.
B: Is not weapons/firearms related.
C: Is not violent.
D: Doesn't fall under some "terrorism" catch-all
will likely see house arrest, or just be out on bail. In fact, people who do white collar crimes are almost celebrities in the US. White collar crimes are almost never enforced unless there is a major collapse of a market... then someone gets scapegoated.
..or systemic negative generalization of people on the basis of their skin tone, in this case, white skin tone. You attribute the negative trait 'entitled douchebag' to the fact he is white. This is no better than calling someone a 'stupid nigger', which implies he's dumb because he's black.
I wouldn't take your 'sociology' classes in school very seriously. They're no better than classes run by scientology.
cite please? I know many douchebags who are not white... heck Kanye West is perhaps one of the biggest entitled douchebags around...
"Bail is supposed to be a fee that you pay"
Not quite. Its supposed to be a guarantee that you'll show up for your court case, and if you don't you either lose a significant chunk of change far in excess of your crime or you have a bail bondsman with a very good reason to hunt you down. The problem is that bail has been corrupted beyond all reason, people who would have no cause (minor crimes, roots in the community, etc) to flee are held under tens of thousands of dollar bail. People with minor DUI crimes will sometimes have bail in excess of $100K. Its become more of a pre-punishment then a guarantee that you'll return to court, if you have the money you're effectively paying hundreds to thousands of dollars (in lost interest, both investment and inflation) if you don't you're paying a bail bondsman ~10% on your bond. And with court cases dragging on more and more each year (its not uncommon for trial to take 2 years) people are paying more and more.
That seems an awful system. You mean that even if you are innocent you will end up losing the interest on the bail ? That probably lead to all kind of bullying from the police and law officers.
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
it's acknowledgement of white privilege.
In other words, yes, you are racist.
Somebody has allowed "them" to rule the world. They aren't really smart, actually most of them are pretty stupid, they are just very good at lobbying, they've been doing it for 2000 years. Americans let "them" in after WWII. Now have fun living in a country whose financial, media, and internet industries are controlled by "them".
I'm afraid you don't know how the capitalistic system works. If you own half of the common shares of a company, you have a 50% voting power at the shareholders meeting and the right to get half of the dividends, whether you also work for it or not. Not that I consider it fair, but that's how it works.
I don't know whether Ceglia's claim is legit or not, however it should be noted that no other company has ever had so many ownership claims as facebook in the last few years. It seems that several businessmen had to do with zuckerberg and claim they were fraud victims. Are they really all liars? I don't know, but honestly I think would never do business with mark zuckerberg.