Charlie Javice leaves Manhattan federal court in New York City after being sentenced to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan, on September 29, 2025. Jeenah Moon/Reuters New York AP —

Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that promised to revolutionize the way college students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by greatly exaggerating how many students it served.

Javice, 33, was convicted in March of duping the banking giant when it bought her company, called Frank, in the summer of 2021. She made false records that made it seem like Frank had over 4 million customers when it had fewer than 300,000.

Addressing the court before she was sentenced, Javice, who was in her

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