The filing says the accuser was sidelined while the people he named stayed put
A former JPMorgan banker's lawsuit lays out, step by step, how he says the bank handled his complaint of discrimination and abuse.
In a complaint filed July 27, 2026, in Manhattan federal court, the banker alleges that he was the top-producing originator on JPMorgan's leveraged-finance team and its only non-white member, and that supervisors and colleagues routinely addressed him with a racial slur instead of his name, mocked his South Asian heritage in team group chats, and treated his hiring as what the filing calls a "point system" diversity quota.
The complaint goes further than slurs. It alleges that his direct supervisor, an executive director, tied his expected promotion to submitting to her sexual advances, told him repeatedly that she "owned" him, and subjected him to unwanted sexual contact. The filing also alleges she once gave him a substance without his knowledge to affect his sexual performance. According to the complaint, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office opened a criminal investigation into her alleged conduct.
The banker says he reported the racial abuse and the sexual coercion in a detailed written complaint through his lawyers in May 2025, while on JPMorgan-approved leave to care for his seriously ill mother.
The filing then describes the bank's response. The complaint alleges that JPMorgan did not investigate the people he named or discipline anyone. It also alleges...
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