(REUTERS) — 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, a criminal complaint showed 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 4-month period.
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