Why $529 Gummy Bears Beat Billions of Dollars

24 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube commentary by TJ Walker about Carly Javis, a former fintech executive convicted of defrauding JPMorgan Chase. The video highlights that Javis’s legal defense has cost over $70 million and notes the quirky detail that her legal team billed $529 for gummy bears — costs JPMorgan (which bought her company) is being asked to repay.

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Carly Javis. Back in the news. She's the former fintech executive convicted of defrauding JP Morgan Chase. She's already spent more than $70 million on her legal defense. But here's the interesting twist. JP Morgan Chase has to pay for it. They bought her company and found out too late. Oops. That she made up all the numbers and the whole thing was a fraud. And other people were defrauded, but since they'd already bought her, they were on the hook. So they've already paid $70 million. It's. You know, it's hard to get people to feel sympathy for a giant bank, but this woman, Charlie Javis, has done it. The legal team apparently billed $529 for gummy bears. They want JP Morgan to repay them for the gummy bears they boug.