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I bet your little Asian, fish head, wife doesn’t have these cannons
https://www.wsj.com/business/jpmorgan-banker-chirayu-rana-sexual-assault-lorna-hajdini-179b67b3The
JPMorgan Banker Behind the Sexual-Assault Suit Captivating Wall Street
Chirayu Rana set off a PR crisis inside America’s biggest bank. Now, his claims have gone viral, stoked by AI fakes.
Chirayu Rana Marco Lawrence
By
Alexander Saeedy
May 8, 2026 10:00 pm ET
It seemed like everyone at 270 Park Avenue was talking about Chirayu Rana.
The 35-year-old banker was about six months off JPMorgan Chase’s payroll when he filed a lawsuit against the bank and his former co-worker, alleging a pattern
of sexual assault and harassment. The details were salacious and shocking to his peers, who’d known him as a socially awkward, occasionally gruff finance bro.
JPMorgan hired Rana in 2024 to help build its business in the booming private-credit industry. The banker, who’d cut his teeth at Credit Suisse and Morgan
Stanley, quickly got to work at the bank’s offices on Park Avenue landing new deals for JPMorgan. He could be critical of his teammates, former colleagues
said, but he was effective at bringing in new business.
Now he was bringing wild-sounding allegations against his former co-worker Lorna Hajdini, seen as a rising star at JPMorgan. Through a bank spokesman,
Hajdini’s lawyers have categorically denied the allegations and said the two never had sexual relations. JPMorgan is standing by Hajdini. A bank spokesman
said it doesn’t “believe there’s any merit” to Rana’s claims following an internal investigation.
Rana had filed a lawsuit on April 27 under the pseudonym “John Doe.” It was later taken off the court docket, fueling questions about its credibility.
Online, people quoted the filing’s eye-popping phrases that he alleged Hajdini had said, including “I bet your little Asian, fish head, wife doesn’t have
these cannons” and “Never forget, I f—ing own you.”
On Monday, Rana refiled the lawsuit in New York state court, with his lawyer attributing the weeklong takedown to a clerical error. The lawsuit is substantially
the same. It includes two sworn affidavits from witnesses whose names are redacted and who say they saw Hajdini inappropriately touch Rana. The Wall Street
Journal reported on Wednesday that JPMorgan offered Rana a $1 million settlement to make his complaint go away; he chose to go public.
This scandal had the right bits of sex, power and money to turn two midlevel Wall Street workers into objects of internet fascination. The lawsuit’s tawdry
and explicit details became a script for AI-generated videos and sexually suggestive memes featuring Pepe the Frog.
Key details that spread weren’t accurate: He was having an affair. (Rana is unmarried.) He retracted his lawsuit. (Not quite. It was refiled.) She was his
supervisor. (She wasn’t.)
The social-media circus and competing narratives about the case have made it difficult to tell what’s real and what isn’t.
One thing for certain is that America’s biggest bank has an unlikely public relations crisis on its hands—and Rana is at the heart of it.
“We look forward to the truth and facts coming to light through court proceedings,” said Daniel Kaiser, an attorney for Rana. “Whether my client’s civil
rights were violated will be determined in a court of law.”
Rana filed a lawsuit on April 27 under the pseudonym ‘John Doe.’
Rana filed a lawsuit on April 27 under the pseudonym ‘John Doe.’ Michaela Bublikova/@dudesinsuitsnyc
From a young age, Rana was determined to win.
He spent his teenage years in Vienna, Va., a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., the firstborn of Nepalese immigrants. His mother ran a licensed daycare out of
their home, a $1.24 million five-bedroom house on a leafy cul-de-sac.
He played soccer and went to Bishop Denis J. O’Connell High School, a Catholic preparatory school in Arlington. After graduation, Rana enrolled in Marymount
University in 2008, where he was on the men’s soccer team. He transferred the following year to Rutgers University-Newark, where he continued to play soccer
as a midfielder, and graduated in January 2013.
One former Rutgers-Newark teammate remembered Rana as a good, reliable player, but said he could sometimes be aggressive during practice, getting into
disagreements with other seniors on the team for excessive tackling or jostling with teammates for control of the ball. Rana’s Rutgers-Newark team roster page
shows that he didn’t get a lot of gameplay.
Those who met Rana in college remembered him as driven and ambitious, saying he talked often about hunting for internships and applying for jobs. One former
teammate recalled a time where Rana reached out to the father of another teammate who worked at a major law firm, asking if he could secure a summer
internship.
Early in his career, Rana cycled through prestigious financial firms, including Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle Group and an affiliate of Apollo Global
Management. In a 2019 corporate sustainability report from Carlyle, Rana was featured as a mentee of a senior Black executive under a subsection called
“Leading By Example in ESG Practices.”
He switched jobs frequently in the last five years, after he wasn’t extended a return offer to Carlyle once a two-year program he worked in concluded in 2020,
a person familiar with the matter said. He had a stint at a consultancy called CrossBoundary between 2020 and 2022 that wasn’t included in his employment
history with U.S. regulators.
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When Rana worked at CrossBoundary, he yelled at co-workers after they tried to offer constructive criticism about his performance, people familiar with the
matter said. Rana was transitioned out of the company in February 2022 in part because of his demeanor in the workplace, the people said.
Kaiser, Rana’s attorney, said “we categorically reject these claims as false and another attempt to smear my client in the press.”
He went on to work for Morgan Stanley for around a year-and-a-half and then an affiliate of Apollo for six months. A person close to Apollo said he was managed
out of the role after managers felt he wasn’t a good fit. Kaiser said this wasn’t true.
Rana arrived at JPMorgan in March 2024, where he was brought on to help build out JPMorgan’s private credit business. The bank has ramped up efforts to edge
into this hot corner of Wall Street, where Rana had experience from his stints at Carlyle and Morgan Stanley.
He worked on developing the bank’s lending practices for software companies and helped originate one of the bank’s first private loans based on the
borrower’s annual revenue, a type of lending that is often considered high-risk.
Rana arrived at JPMorgan in March 2024. Timothy Mulcare for WSJ
From the get go, Rana showed a willingness to tell colleagues that they were making mistakes and their work wasn’t up to standard, people familiar with the
matter said. He worked regularly with Lorna Hajdini, who was on his team.
Hajdini has been seen as a model employee inside JPMorgan and has been a part of some of the bank’s initiatives to encourage women to pursue long-term careers
in finance. She moved from a role inside the commercial bank to a more prestigious one inside the investment bank, bridging a cultural divide inside the company
that CEO Jamie Dimon has long been focused on.
Outside of work, Rana, Hajdini and other team members regularly communicated with each other in group texts and would sometimes go out together, according to
screenshots of text messages reviewed by the Journal. On occasion, co-workers would joke about Rana’s Nepalese background in the chats or refer to Indian men
as “Brown boys,” according to the screenshots.
Rana liked one message where a colleague asked if a “Brown boy” could join a gathering, one screenshot shows. The “Brown boy” in reference was the
colleague’s boyfriend whom Rana knew, a person familiar with the matter said.
Rana and Hajdini also exchanged seemingly friendly text messages, with Hajdini sending him SoundCloud links and memes, the screenshots show.
In his lawsuit, Rana alleged that Hajdini first made advances on him beginning around May 2024. He claims that he went to see a senior team leader in Greenwich,
Conn., and asked that they not be put on further assignments together. He then claimed that Hajdini assaulted him several times and drugged him. Two witnesses
said in sworn affidavits that they saw Hajdini inappropriately interact with Rana, and one of them said Hajdini asked him to join a threesome with her and Rana.
The identities of the witnesses have been redacted in the court filings.
Through a JPMorgan spokesman, Hajdini’s lawyers have denied that she ever had sexual relations with Rana and said “his false claims are entirely
fabricated.”
Rana stopped coming to the office at the end of 2024 and told the bank that his father had died, even though his biological father had not, according to a
person close to JPMorgan. Kaiser, Rana’s lawyer, said that he was referring to a “dad-like figure” who helped raise him and whom Kaiser didn’t identify
by name. Hajdini and other JPMorgan teammates sent Rana flowers believing that his biological father had died, the person familiar said.
According to the lawsuit, Rana also began looking for another job but didn’t get any offers.
In May 2025, he filed a formal internal complaint alleging sexual assault and race-based harassment with JPMorgan. His representative requested that JPMorgan
settle the claims for approximately $22 million, people familiar with the matter said. Rana was put on paid leave while the bank tried to mediate the claims
with him, later offering him $1 million to settle them.
Rana left JPMorgan at the end of 2025 and joined Bregal Sagemount, a private-equity firm. He filed a discrimination complaint against JPMorgan with the U.S.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at the end of March, the Journal has reported. His employment at Bregal was terminated in the beginning of April of this
year, a company spokeswoman said.
Lorna Hajdini has been a part of bank initiatives to encourage women to pursue long-term careers in finance.
Lorna Hajdini has been a part of bank initiatives to encourage women to pursue long-term careers in finance. Timothy Mulcare for WSJ
In a bygone era, Rana’s lawsuit and the $1 million settlement offer from JPMorgan that preceded the filing might have flown under the radar. But since the
filing went public, Rana and his lurid allegations against his former colleague have become the subject of intense public speculation. AI-generated videos and
images of Rana and Hajdini on dinner dates and canoodling in an office have circulated on social media.
Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and even Martin Shkreli, the businessman who was convicted for securities fraud in 2017 and released from prison in 2022, have opined
about what really happened. People claiming to know Rana—from school, work and dating in New York—swapped stories at the online water cooler.
Inside JPMorgan’s headquarters in Manhattan, banking teams swapped memes and traded stories of working with him. Employees were shocked to hear Hajdini, the
star employee, accused of sexual assault.
The group chats of Rana’s former Rutgers team also lit up, former teammates said. One longtime friend was surprised by reports characterizing Rana as a gauche
underperformer, having known Rana as an outgoing person with a dry, quick sense of humor and an intense work ethic.
This week, prediction markets popped up on Polymarket tracking the odds of various outcomes in Rana’s case. “Chirayu Rana sued?” was sitting with a 77%
chance likelihood on Friday morning, with about $147,134 in trading volume. A market betting on whether Rana would apologize for making his allegations had a 3%
likelihood and a volume of $242,921 the same day. Polymarket has a data partnership with Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Both sides are gearing up for the case to go to trial. A judge recently scheduled a preliminary hearing for May 26.
Mon, 11 May 2026 15:52:25 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #15203449
Here is the thing, the public doesnt care about racism against Asians and Indians. Or whites for that matter. It also doesnt care about sexual harassment of men
by women. I mean I guess it is about the perceived relative power, as in Asians or Indians are sometimes financially successful hence cannot claim bias and men
are stronger than women. But it certainly does happen, its just that it doesnt cause automatic outrage such as a fat white suburban woman yelling raist slurs.
And it does not work well for a member of those groups to claim it publicly. They come off spoiled and entitled, whether that is the truth or not.
And going against JP Morgan in a lawsuit? Them boys will dig up dirt from your elementary school. And good luck ever getting a job in big finance again.
No doubt it is a sordid business. But the outrage factor would be much bigger if you switched the main characters, or if you changed their race. My only point i
guess.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:03:56 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #19737652
@whiteguyinchinaTest here is the thing, there are different types of
racism and stereotypes. blacks (and maybe some irish)n are the only groups who came to the USA against their will. most stereotypes against indians and asians
are positive ones. indians are the highest paid ethnic group in the usa with many many business opportunities and highly educated. i get that apu is a real
thing, you just cannot compare any of these stereotypes to the negative ones that exist against other ethnic groups which have led to lynchings and people even
denied housing. perhaps there was a dark history against the japanese with internment camps in the usa during wwii, but thats another story.
finally, plenty of skinny people yell racist slurs. not sure what weight has to do with it. did you not see that skinny blonde woman in minnesota yelling at
that ethiopian dude? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUmr6vpOXnA
also as for women sexually harassing guys, well you cannot say men and women are similarly situated with many things and even the supreme court has ruled on
this. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1980/79-1344
men and women are different physically. thats just a fact. unless a male is a minor or an elderly man, chances are the man is always physically stronger. even
when a woman weighs more than a man if the fat woman and the skinny man wrestle, the woman will not be able to get the man off of her. women also tend to take
rejection differently than men. a woman may try for a week or two or insult a guy, but then she gets over it. some men (not saying you), but many many crazies
will inbox somebody for years even if the woman is married or has a bf and clearly not interested.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:04:57 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15993927
also have hindu temples been vandalized at high rates like other houses of worship? have buddhist centers been vandalized? thats your answer.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:07:39 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #13696144
men who are victims of female exploitation are usually minors or elderly men who are exploited for money or abused in nursing homes. otherwise most sexual abuse
against men is committed by other men. of course, there are teachers arrested frequently and its sad tax payer dollars are spent on public schools, but again
these are minors.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:09:47 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #10234810
also iirc statistics correctly from law school, the majority of people convicted of sexual assault (both against women and other men) in the usa are married men
who identify as straight not women, not homosexuals, and not unmarried priests who may or may not be homosexuals.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:23:58 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #18121932
reverse racism is also clearly real and there were college admissions scandals, but more than ever in this modern era, its been exposed and scotus have issued
their rulings.
see- In June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC that such policies violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. The 6-3 decision mandates that
admissions processes must evaluate applicants based on individual experience rather than race.
Also, once I read a study about how poor white students were perceived by teachers. The white teachers viewed the poor white kids as poor white trash and the
black teachers viewed these poor white kids as more educated than they really were, so sometimes black people can view a white person more positively than other
whites view that person.
Mon, 11 May 2026 16:25:58 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #14186213
I also don't blame him for suing JP Morgan. Banks usually settle even if they sneak in some bs terms and fuck you over in the long run.
Mon, 11 May 2026 23:03:18 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #10017855
I have seen lots of racism whenever I travel with azns. It happens nearly every time. And it's accepted. It has happened with white people but also black and
other asian. Surprisingly I have not had a Latin person be racist. Have you seen how many asian people are attacked in SF or NYC? It just doesnt score well on
the outrage meter. The way I see it is either you are racist or not, its a black amd white category [pardon the pun] and not really gray areas where you can say
nasty shit to someone just because they drive a nice car or came over willingly.
Mon, 11 May 2026 23:06:20 -0700
whiteguyinchina from private IP
Reply #13234379
To be a hypocrite, I love the white stereotypes. They work for me in asia. But I am aware of it and try not to play on it [too much]. I mean i know I am not as
tall in reality as I am in asia. But I need all the help I can get.
Tue, 12 May 2026 03:25:24 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #13168276
Most don’t have nasty shit said to them though. Maybe during Covid there were some extremists blaming China and going and attacking random Chinese people in
Chinatown, however on average any stereotypes against them are positive ones. An old white person isn’t going to cross the street at night because they see a
Chinese or Indian person walking as they will if they see a black man. Drawing that line doesn’t mean no racism ever exists against these people, but it’s
different and not something most people hold.
Also who are attacking Asians in NYC or San Fran? Are they attacking them for their race or because they assume the person is not physically strong and won’t
fight back and likely carries cash?
Tue, 12 May 2026 03:34:46 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #15357794
Also I realize exoticization is a form of racism, but that’s so different from assuming somebody will rob or kill you based on their physical appearance or
assuming a group are inherently evil.
No old white lady is going to be afraid to enter a gas station at night and pay for her gas because the Indian attendant is there. No cop is going to be afraid
to enter Dunkin to get his donut if an Indian man is working at night. Nobody is scared to enter a Chinese restaurant and eat like they are to go into the west
side of Chicago and eat.
Tue, 12 May 2026 03:39:13 -0700
zerosugar from private IP
Reply #11231992
Also every human has their prejudices whether they admit it or not.
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