Charlie Javice, Fallen Star Entrepreneur, Is Found Guilty of Fraud, Faces Years in Prison: Will She Join the List of Business People Pardoned by Trump?

Javice was accused of creating millions of pretend customers for her financial aid processing company in order to trick the country’s largest bank into buying her company for $175 million.

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Charlie Javice leaves Federal Court, Aug. 23, 2023, in New York. AP Photo/John Minchillo

The entrepreneur Charlie Javice, who while in her 20s founded the start-up company Frank, that sought to simplify college financial aid applications, and sold it to JP Morgan Chase for $175 million, was found guilty of bank fraud charges at a Manhattan federal courthouse on Friday. 

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