Cheque may aid man’s claim to Facebook

THE New York man suing over claims that he owns 84% of Facebook Inc has a copy of a $3,000 (€3,638) cashier’s cheque that may support his contract claim against the company and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

The purported cancelled cheque is made out to Zuckerberg and dated three days before Paul Ceglia claims the two men signed a contract in 2003. That agreement, Ceglia said in court papers, entitles him to control of the world’s biggest social networking website.

A copy of the cheque was turned over last week to Ceglia’s side by a Wellsville, New York, branch of Community Bank NA, according to Terrence Connors, a lawyer for Ceglia.