an alleged fraudster who claimed to own half of facebook has vanished from his home just weeks before his new york based trial after ditching his ankle monitoring bracelet, his lawyer has said paul ceglia, 41, of wellsville, sued the social network's billionaire founder, mark zuckerberg, in 2010, claiming he had been promised a 50 per cent share in the business in exchange for start up money in 2012, he was charged with fraud after federal authorities said he had fabricated and destroyed evidence to falsely support his case against zuckerberg, 30 he was due to go on trial on may 4 however, it has now emerged that ceglia is missing from his home after somehow removing his ankle bracelet 'i don’t know where he is,' his attorney, robert fogg, admitted 'i haven’t got a clue' scroll down for video  lawsuit: paul ceglia (left), 41, who sued facebook founder, mark zuckerberg (right), in 2010, has vanished from his home just weeks before his new york based trial after ditching his ankle tracking bracelet, it has emerged  speaking to reuters, fogg said ceglia's tracking device had been found at his home, in new york's rural allegany county, after the us marshals service was dispatched to check on him on sunday he said he has not heard from ceglia, adding that us district judge vernon broderick has now  scheduled a court hearing for tuesday that was 'most definitely spawned by the recent event' last april, buffalo federal judge richard arcara officially closed the book on ceglia's multibillion dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of facebook, granting zuckerberg's motion to dismiss it  the ruling affirmed a magistrate judge's recommendation from a year earlier, saying  the suit should be thrown out because the 2003 software development contract ceglia had based it on was faked ceglia had claimed that he and zuckerberg had signed a contract, 'the face book', that included a provision entitling him to half ownership of facebook in exchange for start up money for the firm at the time, zuckerberg was a freshman at harvard university although facebook's lawyers agreed the pair had a contract, they said references to the social network were slipped in for the lawsuit missing: ceglia (pictured), of wellsville, was charged with fraud in 2012 after federal authorities said he had fabricated and destroyed evidence to falsely support his 2010 lawsuit against 30 year old zuckerberg  claims: ceglia   who claimed he had been promised a 50 per cent share in facebook (pictured)   was due to go on trial on may 4 however, he is now missing from his home after somehow removing his ankle bracelet  zuckerberg had previously done some programming work for ceglia's company, streetfaxcom the lawyers argued that the the only valid contract between the pair related to that company at the time of ceglia's arrest, manhattan us attorney preet bharara said the suspect   who also provided allegedly falsified emails   was seeking a 'quick payday based on a blatant forgery' 'the contract is a cut and paste job, the emails are complete fabrications and this entire lawsuit is a fraud,' attorneys for mr zuckerberg and his palo alto, california based company added 'zuckerberg has now declared under oath that he did not sign the contract attached to ceglia's complaint and that he did not write or receive any of the purported emails' facebook ceo: last april, judge richard arcara officially closed the book on ceglia's multibillion dollar lawsuit claiming half ownership of facebook, granting zuckerberg's motion to dismiss it above, zucerkberg is pictured speaking during a keynote session at the mobile world congress in barcelona, spain, last monday  on monday, fogg said that ceglia   who has pleaded not guilty   has 'always been concerned with justice' 'he has always been concerned about if he'd get a fair trial,' the attorney added ceglia has twice  tried to get the charges  dropped he is also appealing against the 2014 ruling ankle monitoring bracelets are typically fitted to individuals under house arrest or parole at timed intervals, they send a radio frequency signal containing information, like location, to authorities if an offender moves outside of a permitted range, the police will be notified the devices are designed to be tamper resistant   they are meant to alert authorities if  offenders remove them november 22, 2003   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia  'i have recently met with a couple of upperclassmen here at harvard that are planning to launch a site very similar to ours if we don’t make a move soon, i think we will lose the advantage we would have if we release before them 'i’ve stalled them for the time being and with a break if you could send another $1000 for the facebook (sic) project it would allow me to pay my roommate or jeff to help integrate the search code and get the site live before them please give me a call so that we can talk more about this' january 1, 2004   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia  'i think it is unnecessary at this point, with all of the extra work i have done for you, to be held to the original completion date i should not be penalized for delays that were out of my control, namely that there have been so many unspecified requests from the streetfax project that you wanted to be placed as a priority, thereby delaying my start on our second project 'thus, i am requesting a written waiver on your part exempting me from the obligation to give you additional ownership in the project that is outlined in our original contract' january 5   mr ceglia to mr zuckerberg  'it is well past january 1 and to my knowledge you don't have a single thing done for the site you know perfectly well that you can't just take a person's investment and then spend it on women and beer or whatever you do up there in harvard 'i've been stalled long enough on this thing and if i don't see something soon i'll no choice but to contact the school and perhaps your parents in dobbs ferry and let them know what's going on' february 2, 2004   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia  'paul, i have a rather serious issue to discuss with you, according to our contract i owe you over 30% more of the business in late penalties which would give you over 80% of the company 'first i want to say that i think that is completely unfair because i did so much extra work for you on your site that caused those delays in the first place and second i don’t even think it is legal to charge such a huge penalty 'mostly though i just won’t even bother putting the site live if you are going to insist on such a large percentage i’d like to suggest that you drop the penalty completely and that we officially return to 50/50 ownership' february 6, 2004   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia  'sorry it’s taken me a few days to respond, (sic) now that the sites (sic) live i feel i must take creative control and i just can not risk injuring my sites (sic) reputation by cheapening it with your idea of selling college junk, nor do i wish to spend my time shipping out coffee mugs to rich alumni the site is cool as it is and i don’t care about making any money on it right now, i just want to see if people will use it' february 7, 2004   mr ceglia to mr zuckerberg  'mark, all i can think is your parents have handed you everything your entire life and after all this time and energy and money that you think in your head that an ok way to act is to just say   oh i’ve changed my mind i don’t think it’s cool to make money and that that should be that' april 6, 2004   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia  'paul, i have become too busy to deal with the site and no one wants to pay for it, so i am thinking of just taking the server down my parents have a fund that i can tap into for my college expenses and i would just like to give you your two thousand dollars back and call it even on the rest of the money you owe me for the extra work at this point i won’t even really be able to work on the facebook until summer' april 6, 2004   mr ceglia to mr zuckerberg  'grow up, take a f***ing ethics class, choke yourself with that silver spoon of yours' july 22, 2004   mr zuckerberg to mr ceglia (a week before facebook was incorporated) 'paul, i am guessing that you don’t want to talk to me but i wanted to say happy birthday and that i hope to resolve our differences i see that what i did was wrong and i am really sorry that i behaved as i did please give me your address and i will mail you back the $2000 for your trouble, more if it will repair our business relationship 'another summer is here and i still don’t have any time to build our site, i understand that i promised i would, but other things have come up and i am out in california working during break i just don’t want the obligation of having to answer to you for not following through and i won’t be able to best, mark'
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paul ceglia, 41, sued facebook's billionaire ceo, mark zuckerberg, in 2010 . claimed he was promised a 50% share in firm in return for start up money . but in 2012, he was charged with fraud for 'faking' contract to support suit . ceglia was due to go on trial on may 4 and given ankle monitoring bracelet . now, he is missing from his new york home after removing tracking device . 'i don’t know where he is,' ceglia's attorney admitted 'i haven’t got a clue'