There are a lot of surprises here. I'm surprised this wasn't settled confidentially out of court, since Javice presumably doesn't want to go to prison and JPM doesn't want all this publicity as the bank that paid 9 figures for a fake excel sheet they were gonna use to spam people.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good thing that this fraud will be punished... I'm just surprised, either Javice is incredibly stupid/arrogant or someone in JPM was really mad and wanted to press the nuclear button, because a "renegotiation" after a "record keeping error" would have left both parties a lot better off.