The male ex-JPMorgan staffer accused of making fabricated sex-harassment claims against a female executive apparently asked a legal-expert chatbot for advice nearly a year ago, The Post has learned.
Chirayu Rana — whose recent now-redacted lawsuit against Lorna Hajdini accused the executive bank director of forcing him to be her “sex slave” — was the self-identified user behind a public back-and-forth on the online legal-advice platform AskALawyerOnCall.com 10 months ago, or around July, according to the website.
“I was raped, secually assulted [sic], harassed, and forced to do drugs by my former boss at Morgan Stanley,’’ began the 35-year-old Rana’s supposed exchange with a bot from the site.
“I was then retaliated against for seeking to move groups internally at the firm,” he allegedly wrote.
“HR conducted an ‘investigation’ but they ultimately made me signed [sic] a Separation Agreement.”
The customer later referred to his alleged harasser as a “he’’ as part of two exchanges apparently posted by the site as an example of what it can do for customers.
The site did not redact the customer’s name, noting at the end of the exchange — as it does with other public chats — a disclaimer which includes, “Askalawyeroncall.com is a public forum and questions and responses are not private or confidential or protected by the attorney-client privilege.”
The customer who identified himself as Rana was asked by the bot if his “separation agreement’’ over the incident at the time included any clauses about waiving his rights to pursue legal action or discuss the matter publicly.
“Yes but I was forced to sign under duress,” Rana purportedly claimed while stating he had “AMPLE evidence” of his suffering.
Rana — who joined JPMorgan’s leveraged finance team in the spring of 2024 — filed an internal complaint against Hajdini in May 2025, with the company eventually finding no evidence of wrongdoing.
He was connected through the chatbot to a purported lawyer under the username “Joycelaw,” who claims on the site to be an “expert” in a variety of legal fields including business and employment law.
During that conversation, Rana identified his alleged abuser as a man, the site shows — in contrast to the allegations he laid out in a bombshell lawsuit filed against Hajdini earlier this week, which has since been withdrawn for “corrections.”
“I was sexually assaulted and harassed by my former boss, and he even forced me to do drugs,’’
Rana supposedly began the conversation with the so-called lawyer, the transcript shows.
“It’s been really hard to deal with. It’s been a tough time for me,” Rana presumably wrote, before describing the alleged circumstances surrounding his purported separation agreement.
“I signed it because I was scared and felt I had no choice. He said he would ruin my career if I didn’t comply. After I signed, he started spreading lies about me, claiming I made everything up. It was disheartening because most people at work didn’t know the truth,’’ Rana allegedly wrote.
“I’ve been struggling mentally since then. It was a terrible experience, and I left under awful circumstances. He told everyone a false narrative about me, which made it even harder,” Rana wrote, according to the transcript.
Here, the claims become fuzzy again, with the online lawyer writing that Rana’s allegations of sexual assault occurred years before he actually joined the financial institution.
“Since this happened in 2020, you might still have options. Have you considered filing a workers’ compensation claim?” Joycelaw wrote — with no other reference to that year in Rana’s alleged side of things.
“I didn’t think about that. I just feel stuck because I signed that waiver,’’ Rana allegedly responded.
“Everyone seems to refuse to help me because of it,” he supposedly said, before claiming that he lost a separate job because his alleged abuser “breached the NDA and told my new employer about what happened.”
Rana — who left his last job as a principal at investment firm Bregal Sagemount on April 2, three weeks before his lawsuit against Hajdini, according to an exclusive Post report Friday — expressed intrigue at the idea of taking real legal action, the transcript shows.
“Do you think I actually have a valid claim?” and “Do you know anyone who might take my case?” were among the many questions he supposedly asked the so-called lawyer.
Rana’s suit, filed on Monday under the pseudonym John Doe, accused Hajdini of turning him into her “sex slave” by drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra and threatening to slash his bonus if he did not comply.
The complaint even alleged that Hajdini, executive director on JPMorgan’s leveraged finance team, even turned up unannounced at Rana’s apartment and forced him to have sex.
Hajdini’s lawyers said she “categorically denies the allegations” from the suit in a statement.
“She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place,” they wrote.
While at the company, Rana — a Rutgers graduate who’s been described as “socially awkward” — claimed in an internal complaint that he faced race- and gender-based harassment and abuse of power, before trying to negotiate a payoff that ran into “millions” of dollars, sources previously told The Post.
His recent suit also named JPMorgan Chase as a defendant, accusing the bank of retaliation and failing to investigate properly.
A bank rep said a thorough internal probe by the bank’s HR department and in-house lawyers, which included a review of team phone records and emails, found no evidence to support his allegations.
“Following an investigation, we don’t believe there’s any merit to these claims,” the spokesperson said. “While numerous employees cooperated with the investigation, the complainant refused to participate and has declined to provide facts that would be central to support his allegations.”
Friends of Hajdini, who is still working at JPMorgan, said she is viewed internally as “a top performer” and Rana has “tarnished her with a complete fabrication.”
Rana could not be reached for Post comment.
