Chirayu Rana’s attorney Daniel Kaiser has responded to explosive allegations that embattled former JPMorgan Chase employee Rana faked his father’s death and left the office in 2024, saying he was not his biological father but a father figure who helped raise Chirayu. Chirayu Rana has become the talk of the town as she files a lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini alleging sexual harassment. Hajdini and J.P. Morgan denied the allegations, and rumors began to circulate after Chirayu Rana briefly withdrew the lawsuit, only to refile it with witness testimony about how Hajdini invited the witness to also participate in the threesome.The Wall Street Journal reported that JPMorgan offered Rana a $1 million settlement to settle his complaints, but Rana chose to keep the matter public. In a discussion on social media, Caesar told the Wall Street Journal that there were attempts to smear Chirayu Rana by citing his previous work record.“We look forward to the court proceedings bringing the truth and facts to light,” said Rana’s attorney, Daniel Keizer. “Whether my client’s civil rights were violated will be determined by the courts.”
Too many job changes
Chirayu Rana earlier in his career worked at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, The Carlyle Group and affiliates of Apollo Global Management. In Carlyle’s 2019 Corporate Sustainability Report, Rana was listed as a Black senior executive mentee in the subsection “Leading by Example in ESG Practices.” But Carlyle offered him no opportunity to return to his job after the two-year program where he worked ended in 2020, and he has changed jobs frequently over the past five years, the Wall Street Journal reported.He worked for a period between 2020 and 2022 at a consulting firm called CrossBoundary, which is not included in his work experience with U.S. regulators. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, while working at CrossBoundary, Rana yelled at co-workers after they tried to provide constructive criticism of his performance.Rana was transferred from the company in February 2022, in part due to his behavior in the workplace. Kaiser refutes these claims as false and another attempt by the media to defame my client.Rana went on to work at Morgan Stanley for about a year and a half, then spent six months at an affiliate of Apollo. A person close to Apollo told the Wall Street Journal that he was fired after managers decided he wasn’t a good fit. Caesar says that’s not true.Rana joined JPMorgan in March 2024 to help build JPMorgan’s private credit business. Insiders say Rana was willing to tell colleagues that they had made mistakes and that their work was not up to standard. He often works together with his team member Lorna Hajdini. Hajdini is considered a model employee within JPMorgan and has been involved in several of the bank’s initiatives to encourage women to pursue long-term careers in finance.Although Chirayu Rana and Hajdini had a friendly relationship and exchanged text messages and memes, the attacks began in late 2024, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit caused a stir when it became public in late 2024 when Chirayu took a leave of absence from the office, citing the death of his father, who was still alive.In May 2025, he filed a formal internal complaint with JPMorgan Chase alleging sexual assault and race-based harassment. His representatives asked JPMorgan to settle the claims for about $22 million. Rana was placed on paid leave while the bank attempted to mediate the claims with him, later offering him $1 million to resolve the issues. Rana left JPMorgan at the end of 2025 to join private equity firm Bregal Sagemount. A company spokesman said his employment with Bregal was terminated in early April.