Prosecutors accused Javice of artificially inflating the customer list of her financial aid startup before selling it to JPMorgan.

More media attention — and investor interest — weren’t far behind. Enter banking giant JPMorgan Chase, which hoped to ...

Here's how Enter banking giant JPMorgan Chase, which hoped to leverage Frank’s alleged massive user base of more than 4 million students to gain a stronger foothold in the lucrative student finance ...

In a stunning development, Charlie Javice, the founder of the student-finance startup Frank, was convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase. Her company, which was designed to help students fill out the ...

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.

It was in the spring of 2009 that Howard Finkelstein, an attorney who advises startups, first met Charlie Javice at the Microfinance Club of New York, a startup event hosted by New York University.

A federal jury in Manhattan has found Charlie Javice guilty of defrauding JPMorgan Chase. Prosecutors said she tricked JPMorgan into believing her fintech had data for over 4 million students.

Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan application startup Frank that was purchased by JPMorgan for $175 million, was found guilty on Friday of ...

Charlie Javice, an Ivy League grad who launched her company Frank in 2017 with the claim she was revolutionizing the way college students applied for financial aid, was convicted Friday of ...

She first joined PEOPLE in 2025 as a Night Digital News Writer. Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg/Getty Charlie Javice, the founder of the student aid startup Frank, has been convicted of defrauding ...

Charlie Javice Convicted of Defrauding JPMorgan During $175 Million Sale of Financial Aid Startup NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Javice, the charismatic founder of a startup company that claimed to be ...

By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber chronicled Charlie Javice’s backstory in 2023. Charlie Javice, who made big headlines in 2023 when JPMorgan Chase accused her of faking her start-up’s customer list ...