Update:

The case gets stranger. Lorenzana was on a 2003 TV serial, giggling about breast implant surgery she’d had. Knowing that, would any lawyer have framed her case the way it was? Of course, this doesn’t mean she wasn’t the target of harassment. The surgery itself says nothing. It’s commonplace. Do men who take viagra or steroids lose their civil rights? No. And a competent corporate lawyer would, of course, make it the first order of business to establish that the plaintiff in a harassment suit was a slut and “asking for it.” That’s quite usual. But I remain suspicious why this story, like the Helen Thomas story, has suddenly become so prominent….Maybe to create a little sympathy for the banks? Take the focus off the Gaza flotilla?

Original Post:

Did Jamie Dimon really weigh in on the “too hot to handle” former Citi banker who now works for JP Morgan? It would be extremely strange if he did.  Or is it just that Ms. Lorenzana has a lawyer with a savvy eye for publicity? Or is there something else to this strange case popping up just now?

AOL News:

“The former Citibank employee who claimed she was fired because of her distractingly good looks could soon lose another job and file a brand new lawsuit over a potentially controversial body part: her mouth.

Debrahlee Lorenzana says her Citi-slamming media blitz led her new employer, JPMorgan Chase, to threaten disciplinary action “up to and including termination” over appearances and interviews they say bash the banking industry and breach the company’s code of conduct.

Debrahlee Lorenzana’s attorney said the former Citibank employee will take legal action against her current employer, JPMorgan Chase, if she is fired for criticizing Citibank in the media.

If Chase ousts her for publicly airing her gripes with Citi, Lorenzana’s attorney, Jack Tuckner, told AOL News she will take instant legal action.

“If she walks in and gets fired, Debrahlee Lorenzana is filing suit against JPMorgan Chase,” he said. “It is illegal to block her from speaking out against unlawful employment practices.”

The single mom who now works as a personal banker at a Chase branch in Brooklyn said her boss threatened disciplinary action against her if she went ahead with morning television interviews scheduled for today. Lorenzana told the New York Post the order came to her boss directly from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon himself.

“They asked me if I was going to proceed,” Lorenzana, 33, told the Post. “They said if I kept talking, it was grounds for termination.”