LAWSUIT AGAINST LAWYERS: Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, reacts during an address to a gathering at the Internet.org Summit.
NEW YORK: Facebook Inc and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg have sued several lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia, claiming they helped the upstate New York entrepreneur pursue a fraudulent lawsuit to extort a 50% stake in the social networking company.
Monday's lawsuit was filed seven months after a federal judge dismissed Ceglia's civil case and two years after federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Ceglia with criminal mail and wire fraud for alleged document forgery. Facebook's market value is now about US$200bil (RM700bil).
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