JPMorgan ‘sex slave’ accuser makes new claims as lawyers say full story ‘not yet told’

Chirayu Rana, 35, has filed a motion asking a Manhattan judge to dismiss his lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and executive director Lorna Hajdini and allow him to pursue the matter in federal court instead

An ex-JPMorgan banker who claims his boss kept him as a ‘sex slave’ wants to drop his bombshell lawsuit – and file another one with a dossier of ‘evidence’. Chirayu Rana is preparing to relaunch what his lawyers are calling a more damaging case against Lorna Hajdini.

The former Wall Street high-flyer, 35, filed a motion asking a Manhattan judge to dismiss his lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and executive director Lorna, 37, and allow him to pursue the matter in federal court instead.

It comes six weeks after Rana was named as the worker at the centre of accusations of sexual assault which rocked Wall Street.

He previously alleged he was subjected to a twisted campaign of abuse, accusing Lorna of forcing him into degrading sex acts, drugging him, and threatening his career.

But in a fresh twist, his new legal team claim the original lawsuit “failed to capture the full horror of what he endured” and did not include several federal allegations, such as race discrimination, retaliation and violations of medical leave protections.

Lorna has always denied the claims, arguing in a countersuit to Rana’s original lawsuit that his claims were “false, malicious, and in bad faith.” Rana’s new lawyer Jon L. Norinsberg said he is planning to ‘vindicate every one’ of Rana’s claims, the Daily Mail reports.

In a statement, he said: “The public has been fed a wildly distorted version of this case, manufactured from sensational headlines that bear no resemblance to what actually happened to Mr. Rana.

“The full scope of racism, abuse, and retaliation he endured at JPMorgan has not been told. That ends today. We intend to vindicate every one of Mr. Rana’s rights and hold JPMorgan and Ms. Hajdini fully accountable for the catastrophic harm they caused.

“The story the public thinks it knows is about to change dramatically. Stay tuned.”

Rana, who lost his bid to proceed anonymously, claimed in his previous lawsuit that Lorna turned him into her “sex slave” by drugging him with Viagra and a date rape drug and threatening to cut his bonus if he did not comply. He no longer works for JP Morgan.

Lorna, who still works as Executive Director in the firm’s Leveraged Finance division in New York, denies the allegations.