Charlie Javice, the startup founder convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase , stuck the bank with bills for cellulite butter, luxury hotel upgrades and lawyers who claimed to work 24 hours in a single day, according to explosive allegations in court Friday.
JPMorgan has now been forced to pay over $142 million in legal fees for Javice and her co-executive Olivier Amar to fight fraud charges from the feds — nearly as much as the $175 million it shelled out for her bogus startup — due to a judge’s order that the bank is working to get overturned.
JPMorgan, which is on the hook for $74 million in legal fees for Javice alone, says it’s been ripped off again.
“There’s never been a case, to my knowledge, with such extreme abuses,” JPMorgan lawyer Michael Pittinger told a Delaware court,

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