Extra: In Charlie Javice Trial US Witness Kapelner Says His Rate Was Doubled for Synthetic Data

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 11 – 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 and was freed on $2 million bond.

On January 24, 2025 Inner City Press published the first book on the case, Fintech Fraudster? here

February 20 openings, thread here.

On February 21 as Houston Cowan took the stand, then paused due to audio problems, Javice filed that "evidence and argument regarding Bank-1 should be excluded." Letter on Patreon here.

On March 3 the US put on a Google record custodian (thread here), then a former Frank staffer Jen Wong who said she was pissed Chase fired her.

On March 5 Jen Wong finished, then a man from ASL (thread)

On March 6 there was Sarah Youngwood, now of NASDAQ, about minutiae (thread) then the orange jumpsuit quote and judge's timing questions.

On March 10 US witness Patrick Vovor was cross examined (thread) including about his body talk and coming onto Charlie.

On March 11 US witness Adam Kapelner described Javice doubling his rate (thread), the NDA for synthetic in the continued thread on X for Subscribers here and below

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