Charlie Javice, the 33-year-old entrepreneur who once promised to revolutionize college financial-aid applications, tearfully apologized to JPMorgan Chase , its shareholders, her friends and family, and former employees of her startup, Frank, as she was sentenced to just over seven years in prison on Monday for orchestrating a $175 million fraud .

“Not a day passes that I do not feel profound remorse,” Javice said through tears before U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan federal court. Standing to address the court , she said she was “haunted that my failure has transformed something meaningful into something infamous” and admitted to making “a choice that I will spend my entire life regretting.”

The sentencing marks a dramatic fall from grace for Javice, who once g

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