Kamal Ghorui
Chirayu Rana’s attorney speaks about the allegation that he faked his father’s death in 2024.
Chirayu Rana’s attorney Daniel Kaiser reacted to the explosive claim that Rana, the embattled former employee of JPMorgan Chase, faked his father’s death and took leave from his office in 2024, and said it was not his biological father, but a father figure who helped raise Chirayu. Chirayu Rana has become the talk of the town after he filed a lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini, bringing allegations of sexual harassment. Hajdini and JPMorgan denied the allegations and various rumors started floating after Chirayu Rana briefly withdrew the lawsuit, only to refile it with witness statements on how Hajdini invited the witness also for a threesome.The Wall Street Journal reported that JPMorgan offered Rana a $1 million settlement to make his complaint go away, but Rana chose to go public. Amid social media chatter, Kaiser told the Journal that attempts are being made to defame Chirayu Rana, citing his previous work records.“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.”
Too many job changes
Chirayu Rana worked in Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Carlyle Group and an affiliate of Apollo Global Management early in his career. 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.” But 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, the Journal reported.He had a stint at a consultancy called CrossBoundary between 2020 and 2022 that wasn’t included in his employment history with US regulators.When Rana worked at CrossBoundary, he yelled at co-workers after they tried to offer constructive criticism about his performance, the latest WSJ report said.Rana was transitioned out of the company in February 2022 in part because of his demeanor in the workplace. Kaiser rejected these claims as false and another attempt to smear my client in the press.Rana 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 told Journal said he was managed out of the role after managers felt he wasn’t a good fit. Kaiser said this wasn’t true.Rana joned JPMorgan in March 2024, where he was brought on to help build out JPMorgan’s private credit business. Insiders said Rana showed a willingness to tell colleagues that they were making mistakes and their work wasn’t up to standard. 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.While Chirayu Rana and Hajdini were on friendly terms and exchanged texts and memes, the assault, according to the lawsuit, started in late 2024. Late 2024, Chirayu took leave from the office citing father’s death which created a stir now after the lawsuit came to public as his father is alive.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. 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. His employment at Bregal was terminated at the beginning of April of this year, a company spokeswoman said.
