The legal team supporting a man who claims to have a substantial stake in Facebook has bailed out of the case, casting the future of the suit into doubt.
New York wood-pellet salesman Paul Ceglia has claimed he is entitled to half of Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar stake in the social network as payment for work he did establishing the site.
Ceglia received a boost when DLA Piper took on his case, because the high-profile firm gave the claim credibility – as did claims by the lawyers that Ceglia had passed lie-detector tests to show the veracity of his stake.
However, the law firm has withdrawn from the case, for reasons unknown, and is not willing or able to discuss the details of its decision to quit.
"Due to our attorney-client privilege obligations, there will be no further comment," the firm said in a statement made to the LA Times
His case has been taken on by San Diego's Jeffrey Lake. Facebook has previously slammed the case, saying in court documents that Ceglia was "a career scam artist with a proven track record of falsifying documents and ripping off innocent people".
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