Facebook Says Emails Show New Yorker’s Lawsuit a Fraud

Facebook Inc. released emails by founder Mark Zuckerberg from his days at Harvard University to bolster its arguments that a wood-pellet salesman who sued for a 50 percent stake in the social media company lied and forged documents. Facebook’s lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss a 2010 lawsuit by Paul Ceglia, of Wellsville, New York. The lawsuit, they said, was filed “in hopes of extorting a settlement” through a “fraudulent scheme.”