Zuckerberg adviser: Facebook CEO's meeting with 'schmucks' intended to drive property price down

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with the seller of a property directly behind his Palo Alto home “to ‘wow’ these schmucks” into accepting a reasonable offer, according to email exchanges included in a judge’s ruling this week that moved a lawsuit against the billionaire closer to trial. In her tentative ruling, Superior Court Judge Patricia Lucas cited emails that show Zuckerberg used his celebrity while negotiating to buy a neighboring property from plaintiff Mircea Voskerician. Partly…