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The government has been fighting extradition since 2013. The Ecuadorian

June 17, 2019 by Lena Webb

The government has been fighting extradition since 2013. The Ecuadorian government has tried to extradite Ceglia, who has confessed in a court affidavit to the FBI that he intended to defraud Facebook in order to avoid extradition to the United States.

Ceglia has been in the United States since 2011, when he allegedly purchased a cellphone and paid $80,000 in bribes in exchange for Facebook's approval to post a video of a woman's face. The video, which was then used to buy an iPad to show a woman on a beach, drew attention to the way women's bodies are used for entertainment. Ceglia has also been accused of trying to extort money for the benefit of a convicted felon on a grand jury investigation.

The case against Ceglia began in October, and he has been on the run for about a month. He has been in custody since the beginning of July, and has been on the run since Dec. 29, according to the court filing.

While in jail, Ceglia threatened to kill and dismember the woman's body if she didn't comply with the demands of the Ecuadorian government. He was then arrested by the U.S. government in November for "a felony count of providing material support for a foreign terrorist organization," according to U.S. attorneys' office documents.

Ceglia has been in the United States about three times since March 2014. He has also been on a U.S. government warrant for attempting to defraud Facebook. A warrant for his arrest was issued in late December 2015, but Ceglia was not charged.

Ceglia has also been in and out of detention since March 2014. That person has been in and out of detention twice, according to the U.S. government. In December 2015, Ceglia was at a meeting with a local high school student in the city of Farragut, in the U.S., and allegedly told his friend that the girl he had been watching on Facebook was "just going to stay with me forever and never stop."