The surprising reason JP Morgan lawyers dont want Chirayu Rana to drop his bombshell sex slave lawsuit

Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana wants to withdraw his explosive “sex slave” lawsuit against the bank and a female supervisor — but the bank is now fighting to stop Rana from unceremoniously dropping his claims.Rana and his legal team must answer for the claims in the lawsuit, which JPMorgan lawyers called “materially false,” according to documents filed last week.Defense lawyers also don’t want Rana to be able to walk away from the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit and refile the claims in federal court.In a pair of blistering legal salvos, attorneys for JPMorgan and bank bigwig Lorna Hajdini tore into Rana’s frantic attempt to pull the plug on his high-profile state lawsuit, accusing his new high-profile lawyers of “gross negligence” and “gamesmanship.”Rana’s “new counsel has entered this case with an approach similar to that of his prior counsel — promising the press new evidence to support Plaintiff’s claims while simultaneously seeking to delay this litigation and any accountability for Plaintiff’s lies,” lawyers for Hajdini wrote.Attorneys for Hajdini and the banking giant also accuse Rana of “blatant forum shopping” and of trying to avoid complying with a judge’s order to re-file his suit under his real name.Rana “is not entitled to a do-over on his claims because he has retained new counsel,” writes Cardelle B.

Spangler of Winston Taylor, repping JPMorgan.“If he no longer wishes to litigate in this forum, he is free to walk away, but he should not be permitted to re-file these claims with another court,” the filing continues.“Such overt gamesmanship unfairly prejudices [JPMorgan] and should not be permitted.”The legal brawl has gotten so toxic that JPMorgan is now demanding a judge to force Rana’s former lawyer — who dropped his client hours before the suit’s first hearing — “to promptly make any disclosures necessary” regarding false evidence or statements, hinting at an aggressive push to uncov...