We’ve long known that Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman warned attorneys at DLA Piper that Paul Ceglia appeared to be a fraud. Now, with Ceglia a fugitive and DLA facing fraud accusations of its own, we have a better idea of just how hard Kasowitz tried to discourage DLA from representing Ceglia in his ill-fated ownership lawsuit against Facebook Inc.
In a ruling made public late Monday, U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan granted criminal prosecutors access to a trove of communications between Ceglia and his onetime lawyers at Kasowitz, DLA and other firms. Broderick, who’s presiding over the government’s case against Ceglia, ruled that the materials fall under the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege because there is probable cause that Ceglia sought to defraud Facebook, and the documents in question relate to communications in furtherance of the fraud.
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