Charlie Javice was found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co. in its $175 million acquisition of her student-finance startup, Frank, following a six-week trial. A Manhattan federal court jury ...

Charlie Javice, the founder of student-finance startup Frank, was convicted on Friday of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co. in connection with the bank’s $175 million acquisition of her company.

One week before she sold her startup to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million, Charlie Javice asked an employee to help create a list of four million users—more than 10 times as many accounts as the ...

JPMorgan Chase, out of $175 million by exaggerating her customer base tenfold. A jury returned the verdict after a five-week trial in federal court in Manhattan. Javice, 32, and her co-defendant ...