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flag Former Frank exec Olivier Amar sentenced to 68 months for fraud in $175M acquisition scheme.

flag Olivier Amar, a former executive at financial aid startup Frank, was sentenced to 68 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that misled JPMorgan Chase during a $175 million acquisition in 2021. flag He was convicted alongside founder Charlie Javice on charges including bank and securities fraud, after helping fabricate customer numbers to inflate the company’s user count from under 400,000 to over 4 million. flag Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ruled Amar was “intimately involved” in the deception, which misled the bank about the startup’s value. flag Amar was ordered to pay $223 million in restitution, including $54 million in legal fees the bank was contractually obligated to cover due to the fraud. flag He expressed remorse, citing the collapse of the company’s mission to help students. flag JPMorgan has asked a Delaware judge to terminate its obligation to pay the defendants’ legal fees, which have reached $115 million.

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