Exclusive: Chirayu Rana’s Wall Street Nightmare
We spoke to the ex-JPMorgan banker who claimed a female executive abused him — and found an even messier truth.
“The biggest thing here is, if you call this fake, it’s just gender inequality. If the roles were reversed, what do you think would happen?” Chirayu Rana, the 35-year-old Nepali American at the center of one of Wall Street’s biggest scandals, told The Juggernaut. Rana just had a brutal few weeks. On April 27, he had filed a lawsuit anonymously, claiming a female executive at JPMorgan had sexually abused him and called him anti-Brown slurs, only for his identity to be outed. Soon after his interview with us, the world would find out that Lorna Hajdini, the accused executive, had filed a countersuit, claiming that Rana’s allegations were defamatory.
On paper, Chirayu Rana seems like any other child of immigrants. He graduated from Rutgers, played soccer, and worked at prestigious firms like Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan. But his most recent claims, which JPMorgan and Hajdini have vehemently denied, upend that trajectory.
The scandal is a lurid tale that either proves a serious cover-up at one of the world’s largest banking institutions or one of the biggest fabricated accounts in Wall Street history. So: who was telling the truth? The Juggernaut spoke to Chirayu Rana himself, corporate employees, and Rana’s high school friend. We reviewed Rana’s and Hajdini’s court filings as well as leaked screenshots and emails provided to us. What we found was even stranger than fiction.