While the United States calendar for Christmas shopping is favorable, since there are extra selling days before Christmas, this is not the case in Germany.
This week The New York Times reports that federal investigators are looking to make arrests in the case noting that some employees may have valued the troubled bets in a favorable way.
Mr. Ceglia brought the case in state court and, before it was moved to the federal scene, received a favorable decision from a judge there, who issued a restraining order that temporarily froze Facebook's assets.