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Wisconsin Woman Accused of Selling Fake Facebook Stock
Published: Thursday, 2 Feb 2012 | 7:53 PM ET Text Size By: Reuters Twitter
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to
profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake
stock in the social media giant.
In a criminal complaint on Thursday, prosecutors said Marianne Oleson told
acquaintances she obtained $1 million in stock because her daughter was an
acquaintance of Facebook's founder, and persuaded several people to buy
fictitious Facebook stock over a four-month period.
The Oshkosh woman was charged with 31 counts of theft, forgery and making
misleading statements.
Facebook unveiled plans on Wednesday for the biggest-ever Internet IPO.
Facebook said it was seeking to raise $5 billion, but analysts estimated it
could tap investors for $10 billion.
The complaint against Oleson said one of the people to whom she was accused
of selling fake stock was a contractor who did work at her house in
September. Oleson paid the contractor for the work with $13,980 worth of
fake Facebook stock, the complaint alleged.
The contractor, who also paid $10,000 in cash to the woman for additional
stock, grew suspicious when he found she lied about her name and various
oddities on documents referring to the transaction, the complaint said.
Oleson, 46, was also accused of defrauding a 66-year-old Oshkosh man who was
suffering from a vision impairment. According to the district attorney, the
man gave Oleson four checks totaling about $43,000 late last year to pay
for Facebook stock.
The woman promised him she would send stock certificates in the mail, the
complaint said. It also accused Oleson of selling fake Facebook stock to two
other men for a total of $9,900.
An attorney for Oleson could not immediately be reached for comment. | s*******o
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