Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana desires to withdraw his explosive “intercourse slave” lawsuit towards the financial institution and a feminine supervisor — however the financial institution is now preventing to cease Rana from unceremoniously dropping his claims.
Rana and his authorized workforce should reply for the claims within the lawsuit, which JPMorgan legal professionals known as “materially false,” based on paperwork filed final week.
Protection legal professionals additionally don’t need Rana to have the ability to stroll away from the Manhattan Supreme Courtroom lawsuit and refile the claims in federal court docket.
In a pair of blistering authorized salvos, attorneys for JPMorgan and financial institution bigwig Lorna Hajdini tore into Rana’s frantic try to tug the plug on his high-profile state lawsuit, accusing his new high-profile legal professionals of “gross negligence” and “gamesmanship.”
Rana’s “new counsel has entered this case with an strategy much like that of his prior counsel — promising the press new proof to assist Plaintiff’s claims whereas concurrently looking for to delay this litigation and any accountability for Plaintiff’s lies,” legal professionals for Hajdini wrote.
Attorneys for Hajdini and the banking big additionally accuse Rana of “blatant discussion board buying” and of making an attempt to keep away from complying with a decide’s order to re-file his swimsuit beneath his actual title.
Rana “is just not entitled to a do-over on his claims as a result of he has retained new counsel,” writes Cardelle B. Spangler of Winston Taylor, repping JPMorgan.
“If he now not needs to litigate on this discussion board, he’s free to stroll away, however he shouldn’t be permitted to re-file these claims with one other court docket,” the submitting continues.
“Such overt gamesmanship unfairly prejudices [JPMorgan] and shouldn’t be permitted.”
The authorized brawl has gotten so poisonous that JPMorgan is now demanding a decide to pressure Rana’s former lawyer — who dropped his shopper hours earlier than the swimsuit’s first listening to — “to promptly make any disclosures vital” concerning false proof or statements, hinting at an aggressive push to uncover alleged fabrications within the lawsuit.
Within the lawsuit — which turned an web sensation after it was filed in April — Rana claimed he was drugged and made a intercourse slave by Hajdini, who additionally allegedly made racist claims about him and his spouse.
Essentially the most notorious line from the swimsuit was Rana’s declare that Hajdini stripped off her prime and stated, “I guess your little Asian, fish head, spouse doesn’t have these cannons.”
JPMorgan and Hajdini have stated from that bounce that Rana’s allegations are solely made up.
Each defendants argue that Rana ought to be pressured to both keep in state court docket — or that the swimsuit be dismissed for good, and that he pay out authorized charges.
Hajdini, who has filed a counterclaim alleging Rana defamed her, stated her defamation allegation ought to be argued out earlier than Rana is allowed to file in any new court docket.
Her attorneys declare they requested Rana’s workforce to offer a draft of their federal grievance twice, however they declined to take action.
Rana’s legal professionals hit again on Monday, claiming opposing counsel is making calls for to the court docket as if it had been a “a genie lamp that gives her coronary heart’s needs no matter whether or not they’re tethered to reality, legislation, or actuality.”
Lawyer Jon Norinsberg claims Hajdini’s submitting is rife with “hysterics and overwrought descriptions,” and “continues to use publicly filed court docket paperwork to smear” his shopper.
Norinsberg dismisses claims of discussion board buying, and stated Rana plans to adjust to Thursday’s deadline of submitting the swimsuit beneath his actual title — however in federal court docket.
“It’s a acquainted playbook utilized by defendants,” Norinsberg wrote, “assault the survivor, distract from the allegations, and painting themselves because the sufferer.”
