A jury could conclude allegations made by a former JPMorgan Chase Bank compliance executive who said she was fired for blowing the whistle have merit, a federal judge ruled.
Shaquala Williams sued JPMorgan in November, alleging she was fired for pointing out flaws in the bank’s compliance program and misrepresentations it made to regulators regarding a 2016 settlement of bribery allegations in the Asia Pacific region.
Williams was hired in July 2018 as a vice president in the bank’s global anti-corruption compliance department. She alleged the bank fired her in October 2019 in retaliation for her attempts to escalate internally her concerns about the bank’s anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program.
On July 26, District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled Williams’s case could move forward to trial, scheduled for December in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The crux of the judge’s decision to allow the case to proceed is Williams participated in “protected activity” of whistleblowing by pointing out flaws in JPMorgan’s AML compliance program before the bank began taking employment actions against her, like issuing poor performance reviews and launching an investigation into her work.
JPMorgan argued it would have fired Williams anyway, for reasons other than her engaging in the protected activity of whistleblowing. The bank said several JPMorgan supervisors and at least one junior employee complained about the quality of Williams’s work and alleged she...
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