My favorite thing about this case is how she bragged to her lead engineer she wouldn't go to prison, "“Don’t worry — I don’t want to end up in an orange jumpsuit" when she was trying to convince the engineer to fabricate their user data.
From the complaint:
> In particular, CC-1 and JAVICE asked Engineer-1 to supplement a list of Frank’s website visitors with additional data fields containing synthetic data.
> Engineer-1 was uncomfortable with the request and stated, in sum and substance,
“I don’t want to do anything illegal.” JAVICE and CC-1 claimed to Engineer-1 that it was legal. JAVICE stated to Engineer-1, in sum and substance, “We don’t want to end up in orange jumpsuits.” Engineer-1 declined the request from JAVICE and CC-1.
> shortly after Engineer-1 had declined the request to create a synthetic
data set—CHARLIE JAVICE, the defendant, contacted Scientist-1 and asked him to create the synthetic data set. In JAVICE’s communications with Scientist-1, she falsely represented that the data she provided to Scientist-1 was a random sample of a much larger database of Frank users.
> Also on or about August 3, 2021, JAVICE forwarded to Scientist-1 the Access Link
Email sent to her by Engineer-1. JAVICE wrote, “here is the link. will share credentials offline.” Based on Scientist-1’s communications with JAVICE, Scientist-1 understood that the data available via the Access Link Email—a data set of approximately 142,000 people—was a random sample of a larger database which contained data for approximately 4 million people.
source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1577861...
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