Facebook’s 50% “Owner” Paul Ceglia’s Hometown Image

Buffalo News finally went to Paul Ceglia’s hometown and asked questions about Ceglia of the people who know him. Here is what they said about Paul Ceglia:

“When you shake Paul Ceglia’s hand, you better count your fingers afterward,”

“…I went to his house, and it was a shanty. The photo they used online was this huge farm. It looked great. But it was a makeshift operation. He came out and tried to shake my hand. I said ‘Unless you got money in that hand, I don’t want to shake your hand.’ He said it was all tied up in sawdust. So I said ‘Show me the sawdust.’ He pointed to a small pile. I said, ‘You mean to tell me that’s my money?'”

“The whole time I’ve ever known him, he was into conning people,” said Ira Warboys, a Wellsville High School classmate of Ceglia. “Any way he could make easy money, that’s what he did for a living. He can talk a real good story, but in the long run, he’s nothing but a joke.”

“Paul Ceglia has a proven track record of defrauding innocent people and forging documents,” Facebook attorney Orin Snyder said. “This lawsuit is his latest scam.”

It isn’t all bad for Ceglia. Here is someone who liked him:

“He was not popular, not very well-known,” Ferlazzo said from her home in Virginia. “I don’t think people even know him well now. I was kind of friendly with him. All I remember is he wanted to go out with me and my parents wouldn’t let me. They were not fans. I liked him because he was different. He really was mysterious. He had a little bit of a bad-boy image, but he wasn’t. He was always nice to me.”