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Charlie Javice, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, was found guilty in federal court of conning JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million.
Her lawyer, Ronald Sullivan, argued that an order for her to wear an ankle monitor would hinder her ability to teach Pilates.
“To have your legs in the air and the monitor going up and down on your leg, it is a significant encumbrance,” Mr. Sullivan said.
The hearing’s focus on the bulky surveillance device was another case of ankle monitors taking space within the news and pop culture sphere.
For Ms. Javice and her legal team, the issue centered on her inability to earn money while wearing the monitor, with little if any acknowledgment that other, less physically demanding jobs were an option.
Wearing a Moncler coat, leggings and black flats, Ms. Javice sat quietly through the hearing.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who has presided over high-profile cases such as the Harvey Weinstein trial and the tax fraud trial of the art dealer Mary Boone, took time to weigh in on the matter.
Ms. Javice embraced her co-defendant, Olivier Amar, for several seconds before the hearing began and helped him adjust something on the lapel of his suit.
Mr. Amar, who sat between his lawyers during the proceedings, was an executive at Ms. Javice’s student-finance start-up, Frank, and was also ordered to wear an ankle monitor.
In a court filing, the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Matthew Podolsky, wrote that “the defendants’ current bail packages are not sufficient to address the risk of flight.”
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