Charlie Javice, the founder of the millennium found guilty of having swindled JPMorgan up to $ 175 million, sentenced to 7 years in prison
Charlie Javice was once celebrated as a promising young entrepreneur. After all, she was only 17 years old when, in the spring of 2009, she met Howard Finkelstein, a lawyer who advised startups during an event organized by New York University.
Javice was there to network about its new startup, Poverup, a platform to help students launch microfinance clubs.
“She could start conversations with anyone and continue endless,” said Finkelstein Fortune Report in finance Luisa Beltran. But Javice was so young at the time, Finkelstein forced him to have the permission of a parent in order to advise her. In addition to her entrepreneurial goals, she wanted to create a world organization to help people get out of poverty.
“Yeah, she wanted to change the world,” said Finkelstein Fortune.
But Javice has changed the world in a fairly different way. In March, a Manhattan Federal Court sentenced the now 33 years for defrauding JPMorgan buying his Startup of student housing, Frank, for $ 175 million. On Monday, she was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Biblical ” crime ” ‘
Judge Alvin Hellerstein said Javice’s crime was “biblical”.
“Among the many commandments of the Bible are the commandments of weight and measures,” said the judge. “Yours was not a weight and a measure.”
Javice had falsely claimed that Frank had more than 4 million users, when in reality there were only 300,000. Massive inflation of consumer data was an integral part of JPMorgan by agreeing to buy the company in 2021, an agreement that his CEO Jamie Dimon called a “enormous error”.
To convince JPMorgan of its manufactured customers, Javice would have hired a data scientist to create a list of synthetic customers to save his FALSO claims. But JPMorgan discovered fraud when its JPMorgan users’ marketing emails had extremely low delivery and opening rates. The bank finally continued Javice, triggering federal accusations of criminal fraud and securities, which led to a trial before six -week jury in New York and its conviction and conviction.
During the trial, prosecutor Nicholas Chiuchiolo told Javice Javice and the Olivier Amar co -feemer, Frank’s growth director, had “many times” the company wrongly and sold Frank for $ 175 million “for lies”. He argued that Javice and Amar have become multimillionaires while “JPMorgan obtained a spreadsheet with false names”.
A Javice high school classmate said FortuneBeltran, she was perplexed that a young businesswoman could defraud the largest bank in the world.
“How can she think that she could get away with it?” How did she even sleep? they wondered.
Although Javice was compared to the other cases with high issues of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, whose fraudulent technology has endangered lives, the judge of her conviction stressed that the crimes of Javice caused financial and substantial reputation for JPMorgan. Holmes is serving an 11 -year prison sentence at the Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum security camp in Texas.
Gregory Coleman, the retired FBI special agent who dropped Wall Street’s real wolf, said FortuneBeltran, he thought that Javice was similar to Holmes in certain ways, but not all. Coleman said Holmes’ testimony has shown psychopathic trends.
“Some might say that having a baby on the eve of her trial, knowing that if she was condemned, she could face a significant imprisonment, was only the last of a long line of selfish and manipulative psychopathic acts,” he said. Meanwhile, Coleman said Javice seemed to be more aware that she made overestimated statements that were just a snowball in lies.
“I do not think that she left from the start to commit fraud, but was rather attracted and defeated by her bad decisions in her attempt to simulate him until she does it ”, said Coleman Fortune‘S Beltran.
During his conviction, Javice appeared with remorse, in several reports.
“At 28, I did something about the grain of my education,” said Javice. “I made choices that I will spend all my life regretting.”
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