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Former JPMorgan Chase employee who anonymously filed lawsuit accusing female executive of sexual harassment and abuse, outed

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ddbe08fcbc331a44342a0cad831af86d wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Former JPMorgan Chase staffer who filed a lawsuit accusing a female executive of sexual harassment and abuse has been identified as Chirayu Rana<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62acd34a3c40cee52c40f1b8710bcb26 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Rana&comma; 35&comma; a former Senior vice president at JPMorgan Chase&comma; originally filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym &&num;8220&semi;John Doe&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9ab143e43c71cf20f188ee5a20aacf7d wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Lawsuit accused Lorna Hajdini&comma; 37&comma; an executive director in JPMorgan&&num;8217&semi;s Leveraged Finance division&comma; of a months-long campaign of sexual assault&comma; racist abuse&comma; drugging and coercion<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d07dc28880ec012fc79c280544da3e63 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Responding through her lawyers Hajdini has dismissed the allegations made by Rana under the pseudonym &&num;8216&semi;John Doe&comma;&&num;8217&semi; as &&num;8216&semi;fabrication&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d2042c99af90ee28f0afd5c840d1de21 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>JPMorgan Chase has also denied the allegations which it called &&num;8216&semi;baseless&comma;&&num;8217&semi; because a thorough internal investigation found no supporting evidence <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0702866f36c00302c1959dbbcbdc4690 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;230505&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>No date has been set for trial commencement<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;Chirayu-Jana-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-497382" style&equals;"aspect-ratio&colon;0&period;8307148269038456&semi;width&colon;836px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Chirayu Rana&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&period; a former Senior vice president at JPMorgan Chase&comma; originally filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym &&num;8220&semi;John Doe&&num;8221&semi;&comma; accusing Executive Director&comma; Lorna Hajdini of work place harassment&period; He also accused the bank of retaliation and failing to investigate properly<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">As of late April and early May 2026&comma; the former JPMorgan Chase staffer who filed a lawsuit accusing a female executive of sexual harassment and abuse has been identified as Chirayu Rana&period; <br>Chirayu Rana&comma; now a principal at the private equity firm&comma; Bregal Sagemount&comma; according to sources&comma; is the ex-JPMorgan banker who filed the lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini and JPMorgan Chase&period;<br>Rana&comma; a 35-year-old former a former Senior vice president at the bank&comma; originally filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym &&num;8220&semi;John Doe&&num;8221&semi;&period; <br>The lawsuit accused Lorna Hajdini&comma; a 37-year-old executive director in JPMorgan&&num;8217&semi;s Leveraged Finance division&comma; of a months-long campaign of sexual assault&comma; racist abuse and coercion&comma; which he is also claiming his former employer condoned after he filed a complaint&period;<br>According to reports on the case&comma; incidents recorded in the court filings include claims that Hajdini turned up unannounced at Rana’s apartment and forced him to perform sex acts&period; <br>It also claims that on several occasions she &&num;8216&semi;roofied&&num;8217&semi; him&comma; paving the way for the assault&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;Lorna-Hajdini-6&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-497385" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lorna Hajdini &lbrack;photo&rsqb; in a statement issued by her lawyers&comma; dismissed Rana&&num;8217&semi;s allegations of work place harassment and sexual assault&period; Those close to her say the claims are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fabricated”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Hajdini has denied those allegations as her lawyers have stated that their client&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;categorically denies the allegations&period; She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place&period;”<br>Rana&&num;8217&semi;s chronicle of the alleged coercion states that it began within weeks of his joining JPMorgan’s leveraged finance team in March 2024&period;<br>He filed an internal complaint in May 2025&comma; alleging race- and gender-based harassment and abuse of power&comma; before trying to negotiate a payoff that ran into &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;millions” to leave the company&comma; sources said&period;<br>The suit filed by Rana&&num;8217&semi;s attorney&comma; Daniel J&period; Kaiser&comma; in the New York County Supreme Court&comma; lists claimant as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;John Doe&period;” <br>The suit also named JPMorgan Chase as a defendant&comma; accusing the bank of retaliation and failing to investigate properly &&num;8211&semi; allegations which JPMorgan strongly denied&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;Lorna-Hajdini-5&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-497387" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Hajdini&comma; an NYU Stern School of Business graduate is still working at JPMorgan&comma; where the consensus opinion internally&comma; is that she is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a top performer&period;” Some insiders believe that the complainant &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;has tarnished her with a complete fabrication”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">However the bank maintains that a thorough internal probe by the bank’s HR department and in-house lawyers&comma; which included a review of team phone records and emails&comma; found no evidence to support Rana&&num;8217&semi;s claims&period; <br>Following an investigation&comma; the bank concluded that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; there’s any merit to these claims&period;” <br>The firm stated that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation&comma; the complainant refused to participate and has declined to provide facts that would be central to support his allegations&period;”<br>Furthermore it has been clarified that Rana did not report to Hajdini&period; <br>The two senior bankers were simply colleagues on the leveraged finance team&comma; which works on large corporate acquisitions&comma; mergers&comma; and buyouts&period;<br>Since Hajdini reported to managing director Brandon Graffeo&comma; while Rana was supervised by another managing director&comma; Jon Wolter&period; It means she would have no sway over the size of his annual bonus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;05&sol;JPMorgan-Chase-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-497389" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Hajdini and Rana were colleagues at JPMorgan between 2024 and 2025&period; Contrary to earlier reports Rana was not reporting to Hajdini&period; They reported to two different managing directors<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">One colleague described Rana&comma; a former basketball player and Rutgers graduate&comma; as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;socially awkward” but someone who &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;met the requirements” to remain at the bank&period;<br>Hajdini&comma; an NYU Stern School of Business graduate is still working at JPMorgan&comma; where the consensus opinion internally&comma; is that she is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a top performer&period;” Some insiders believe that the complainant &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;has tarnished her with a complete fabrication&period;”<br>Meanwhile Rana’s career in finance includes stints at Houlihan Lokey&comma; Credit Suisse&comma; TCG Capital Markets&comma; Morgan Stanley&comma; and the Carlyle Group before he joined JPMorgan Chase in 2024&period;<br>Following his departure from JPMC&comma; he is now a principal at New York-based private equity firm&comma; Bregal Sagemount&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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