The highly publicized fraud trial of Charlie Javice has become a platform for highlighting embarrassing blunders on both sides, with astonishing revelations about how JPMorgan Chase was allegedly misled into purchasing her startup, Frank, for $175 million, despite having only 300,000 customers, far fewer than the claimed four million.

According to a recent WSJ article, a crucial moment in the trial came when former Frank engineer Patrick Vovor took the stand, testifying that he had refused Javice’s request to create fake user data just one week prior to the sale. Vovor recalled Javice saying to him: “Don’t worry, I don’t want to end up in an orange jumpsuit.” After Vovor declined, Javice allegedly enlisted the help of a math professor to generate synthetic user data, which was then submitted to JPMorgan. (Javice’s legal team, however, portrayed Vovor as a disgruntled former employee in court.)

In addition to JPMorgan’s inadequate due diligence on Frank’s user base, other uncomfortable facts have come to light, including a note sent by Leslie Wims Morris, who led the deal at JPMorgan. The note highlighted segments from CEO Jamie Dimon’s 2021 annual letter to investors and added that sometimes “there’s no need to do analysis at all.”

Javice’s attorneys argued in court that this note serves as evidence that JPMorgan was lax in its verification process, but Morris testified that her comment was meant to be humorous, written “as a joke to my team.”