Thursday, April 2

Hunt for fugitive Facebook scammer intensifies, $5k reward offered



The hunt for a rural New York man accused of trying to bilk Mark Zuckerberg out of half the Facebook fortune is intensifying, with the US Marshals Service now offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Paul Ceglia.



The authorities contend that Ceglia sliced off his GPS ankle monitor and affixed it to a crudely built contraption in his Wellsville residence "in order to give the appearance that he was still present and moving within his home."

As part of Ceglia's $250,000 bail conditions, he was required to wear a GPS electronic monitoring device. He was declared a fugitive last month ahead of his May 4 federal criminal trial.



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