Exclusive | Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana pretended his dad was dead to get bereavement leave but hes alive and spoke to The Post this weekend
The ex-JPMorgan Chase banker who accused a glamorous female colleague of forcing him to become her “sex slave” lied to the bank about his father dying so he could collect nearly three months of paid leave — and apparently used the time off to prepare the bombshell lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini and his employer, The Post has learned.Sources said that Chirayu Rana, 35, informed supervisors in mid-December 2024 about the supposed death of his father, Chaitanya, and that he needed to take time off from work to be with his family — stringing together various forms of paid leave in addition to five days of bereavement, sources said.But the elder Rana is alive and well.The Post reached him on Sunday at the family’s $1.75 million home in Vienna, Virginia, where he claimed he knew nothing of the highly contested legal dispute.“I don’t know anything about it.
He didn’t talk with us or anything,” Chaitanya Rana told The Post.“He’s my son.
He’s a good guy.”The now-unemployed money man, who The Post exclusively unmasked as the John Doe behind the eye-popping claims against the 37-year-old Hajdini, was allowed to work remotely from the fall of 2024 when he had first flagged to the bank’s top brass that his father was seriously ill, sources said.He then exhausted a string of leave allowances between early March and the end of May last year, when an initial draft complaint was sent to the bank’s legal team, the people familiar with the matter said.One source with direct knowledge of its contents said it read: “In or around November 2024, the plaintiff’s father passed away, and he went to his parents’ home in Virginia.”“The company thought he was working through something,” said one source.“You can tell that he was trying to play the system.”Attorney Greg Chiarello, who did not reply to a request for comment, prepared the May 2024 document, which also claimed Rana’s mother, Baruna, was sick.
Rana finally filed his complaint nearly a...