At a Tuesday hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dina McLeod said that Charlie Javice was arrested Monday at Newark airport. She was released on a $2 million personal recognizance bond, but faces decades in prison.
was charged Tuesday after allegedly falsely inflating her startup company’s user base before selling it to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million.
The once-rising tech star was escorted into the courtroom in a black hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants and wasn't wearing handcuffs. She appeared relatively composed for someone facing a slew of charges and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of the world's largest banks.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement Tuesday that Javice “engaged in a brazen scheme to defraud JPMC in the course of a $175 million acquisition deal...
“Charlie denies the allegations,” a spokesperson for her attorney Alex Spiro, who had no additional comment, told The Daily Beast. Javice's lawyer during Tuesday's hearing, Maaren Shah, also declined to comment.On Tuesday, Javice was ordered to surrender her passports and agree to a curfew with location monitoring. Her bail package would be co-signed by two "financially responsible persons," McLeod said, and secured by her personal residence in Miami.
As previously reported by The Daily Beast, the startup and Javice were already in hot water prior to the JPMorgan Chase lawsuit. Since 2017, Javice has faced a lawsuit in Israel after allegedly wrongfully terminating an employee and swindling him out of millions.
The bank’s lawsuit alleges Javice told the professor to send her an $18,000 invoice for the data set.
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