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A judge in New York declined to block a lawsuit brought against JPMorgan Chase Bank NA by a former compliance employee who says she was fired for raising concerns about the bank’s compliance program.
Shaquala Williams, a former JPMorgan vice president, sued her former employer last year, arguing that the concerns she raised, including that the bank had insufficient sanctions screening and anticorruption practices, were protected under a whistleblower anti-retaliation law.
Ms. Williams’s lawsuit accused JPMorgan of violating the anti-retaliation law by firing her and by taking actions that caused the New York State Attorney General’s office to withdraw a job offer. Ms. Williams later secured a job at Wells Fargo & Co. similar to the one she held at JPMorgan, according to court filings.
District Judge Jed Rakoff on Wednesday said he was throwing out the claim that JPMorgan’s action had adversely impacted Ms. Williams’s job offer. But he said the claim that she was improperly fired in the first place could proceed to a trial currently scheduled for December.
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