Charlie Javice, who was convicted for defrauding JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million, is demanding a new trial — claiming the choose’s law clerks got jobs with the banking giant’s law firm after her trial completed.
In a movement filed in Manhattan federal court, the 33-year-old’s legal professionals alleged that both of US Judge Alvin Ok. Hellerstein’s clerks had accepted jobs at Davis Polk & Wardwell, the powerhouse law firm that represents JPMorgan Chase.
“This commitment … was not disclosed to defense counsel until October 2025 (after trial and sentencing), is an apparent conflict of interest that creates, at a minimum, an appearance of impropriety,” Javice’s legal professionals wrote in the Monday submitting.
Charlie Javice, who was convicted for defrauding JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million, is demanding a new trial, claiming the choose’s two law clerks got jobs with the law firm representing the lender. REUTERS
Javice’s attorneys are taking purpose at Hellerstein despite the federal choose in Manhattan telling the convicted fraudster that she was a “good person who has done bad things” when he sentenced her to seven years in prison in late September.
Hellerstein instructed a sobbing Javice at sentencing that her pleas for mercy, which included reference to her Holocaust survivor grandmother, were “very moving” and that the manner she’s devoted her to charitable works is “highly commendable.”
“I sentence people not because they’re bad, but because they do bad things,” Hellerstein instructed Javice. “I don’t think you’ll be committing other crimes and that you’ll be devoting your life to service, but others have to be deterred.”
Javice, 33, was sentenced after a jury discovered her guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and securities fraud. Prosecutors said she duped JPMorgan into shopping for her company for $175 million by falsely claiming her fintech startup Frank had 4.25 million customers when it only had about 300,000.
Javice’s legal professionals argued that both of Judge Alvin Ok. Hellerstein’s (pictured) clerks had accepted jobs at Davis Polk & Wardwell, the powerhouse law firm that represents JPMorgan Chase. Christopher Sadowski
According to the movement, both of Hellerstein’s clerks labored as summer time associates at Davis Polk in 2023 and accepted full-time job provides at the finish of the summer time. They deferred their begin dates to September 2025 to full their clerkships.
Javice’s legal professionals also pointed to a newspaper article that reported Hellerstein was “nodding off” during the trial, arguing that the clerks had an “outsized influence on rulings.”
The movement cites an occasion during the trial when the choose, after conferring with his clerk, allowed a prosecutor to re-ask a query over a protection objection.
“My law clerk agrees with you. You can ask the question,” Hellerstein said, according to the transcript.
“This commitment to an employment relationship with Davis Polk…is an apparent conflict of interest that creates, at a minimum, an appearance of impropriety…,” Javice’s legal professionals wrote in the submitting. REUTERS
“This episode shows that the clerk was participating in real time in decisions concerning the permissible scope of examination on one of the most consequential subjects in the case, and that the clerk’s input aligned with the prosecution in a way that benefitted her future employer Davis Polk and her future client JPMC,” Javice’s legal professionals wrote in the submitting.
Javice’s legal professionals said they only discovered of the battle after the trial and sentencing, when Davis Polk despatched a letter to the court saying it had carried out an “ethical screen” to forestall the clerks from working on the case.
Davis Polk was not a peripheral participant in the case, according to Javice’s attorneys. The firm’s legal professionals appeared at hearings, litigated discovery points and attended every day of the six-week trial, the submitting alleged.
Javice, 33, was sentenced in September to seven years in prison after a jury discovered her guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and securities fraud. REUTERS
At one level, they even occupied the authorities’s seats at the counsel desk, according to a court transcript.
JPMorgan is also suing Javice in a separate civil case in Delaware. The bank has declined to remark on Wednesday’s filling.
The Post has sought remark from Hellerstein, Davis Polk and the US Attorney’s Office.
The legal battle over the clerks’ alleged battle comes as JPMorgan is preventing to stop paying Javice’s legal payments, which have ballooned to more than $73 million — with another $13 million added after her conviction.
The legal battle over the clerks’ alleged battle comes as JPMorgan is preventing to stop paying Javice’s legal payments. AFP via Getty Images
Combined with co-defendant Olivier Amar’s legal prices, the pair’s payments have topped $128 million — almost three-quarters of the $175 million JPMorgan paid for Frank.
In a separate court submitting in Delaware Chancery Court, the bank accused Javice and her legal professionals of treating the payment development as a “blank check,” billing for personal gadgets like cellulite butter and luxurious lodge upgrades.
JPMorgan also alleged that one of Javice’s legal professionals billed for 24 hours of work in a single day.
A spokesperson for Javice has denied the allegations, telling The Post that the cellulite butter “wasn’t hers, and it wasn’t billed by her.”
