Frank’s founder Charlie Javice expects the jury not to see some texts

• Frank’s founder Charlie Javice is in trial in New York, accused of defrauding JPMC of $ 175 million.
• He is struggling to suppress a text in which he called his coding “the best couple in the crime.”
• Prosecutors told the judge that the 2022 text “reflects an indifferent conscience of guilt.”

Federal prosecutors believe that Frank’s founder Charlie Javice was joking at that time, in October 2021, when he sent a text message to his second in command and gave his brief comments about his work performance.

“My comment is the best fellow crime,” he wrote. “The end,” he then signed, receiving a smiling emoji in response.

But a month in a New York fraud trial, neither prosecutors nor defense are dealing with the comment as a matter joking.

Prosecutors say that Javice and his sub -infectant Olivier Amar, are partners in the crime, a blatant conspiracy to deceive the largest bank in the nation, JPMorgan Chase, to pay $ 175 million for their start of financial aid.

On Tuesday, defense lawyers fought to prevent their jury from learning about the exchange.

At the time of Frank’s sale, Javice was a former tribute from Forbes “30 under 30” and Darlist of financial mediaAnd loving was its growth director. Prosecutors say that the two conspired to buy data for about 4 million students, and ensured the agreement with JPMorgan Chase by falsely stating that they were frank users.

JPMorgan bought the startup in the hope of marketing their banking products to students to the university. He spent a year before the bank realized that Frank had only 300,000 users, prosecutors allege.

The four texts that include the exchange of “partner in the crime” of Javice and Amar are “relevant and admissible,” federal prosecutors wrote to the Alvin K. Hellerstein district judge. They ask the judge to allow the jury to see the exchange as evidence.

“This exchange reflects an indisputable awareness of guilt, and further reflects the type of closely intimate relationship that Javice and Amar shared,” only two months after the bank bought the startup, prosecutors wrote.

In the first text in the couple’s WhatsApp chain, Amar, citizen of Canada and Israel accused of pocketing $ 2 million in fraud, he tells his boss, Javice, “he maintained my brief self -evaluation as he requested.” He added a smiling Emoji face.

Javice, citizen of France, responded with his own smile: a colon and a close parenthesis.

“It is a false review, since compá is already established,” Javice wrote, an apparent reference to the millions in “compensation” that the two were resulting in the agreement, which included JPMorgan’s persecution wages for each of them.

Javice, who says that prosecutors say that he agreed with $ 45 million through the agreement, then “joked about to reveal to JPMC in a performance review that Amar and Javice are partners in crime,” federal prosecutors added.

“In fact,” they wrote, “the defendants are accused of conspiring to commit crimes together, that is to saybeing partners in crime. “

The defense lawyers of Amar and Javice argue that “the context provided indicates that Mrs. Javice was simply joking”, even indicating that it was a “false” review.

When fighting the charges, the lawyers of the two have argued that JPMorgan Chase was based on many factors in his purchase of Frank, not only the data of the users.

Defense teams are also asking the judge to prevent jury members from seeing an exchange of WhatsApp from February 2022 made by the two defendants during a zoom meeting with JPMC staff.

The text exchange begins with Javice by saying that “he gave him the shit show of all spreadsheet systems.” A minute later, after loving sends text messages, “Okay,” Javice replies “Ah, we are screwed.”

“There is no probative value in these messages” in the absence of the context of what was happening at the Zoom meeting, the defense wrote on Tuesday.

The prosecutors said they expected to rest their direct case on Tuesday afternoon.