Courtroom (too) confidential: Javice For Trial For Fooling JPMC Has Sept 6 Deadline Now Wants All Staff Names Sealed - here
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by Matthew Russell Lee, Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Aug 23 – JPMorgan Chase bought a start-up called Frank, which claimed to have 4 million students signed up to file their FAFSA forms, for $175 million. Then Chase learned Frank had only 300,000 customers.
On April 4, 2023, Frank founder Ms. Charlie Javice was brought before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses.
On May 18, Javice was indicted on bank, wire and securities fraud counts, and the case assigned to District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.
On August 6 there was a hearing, or a series of Judge Hellerstein rulings, on privilege claims. Inner City Press was there. It was in open court.
But on August 23 JPM Chase wrote in seeking to belatedly seal the names of its officials who dealt with Javice and Frank, even though they'd been said in open court -
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