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Maurene Comey, the federal prosecutor who handled the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was fired from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York Wednesday by the Justice Department, according to ABC News. The reason for Comey’s firing was not immediately clear.
Comey’s father, former FBI director James Comey, was fired by Donald Trump during his first term in office.
The news of Maurene Comey’s firing arrives amid an ongoing MAGA revolt as the president’s supporters continue to condemn Trump’s Justice Department’s memo announcing the administration’s belief that convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker Epstein killed himself in prison, and that the department was effectively closing its case.
While House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other prominent members of the GOP have pushed for the transparency promised to them by the president and members of his Cabinet, Trump recently attacked his supporters for caring about the “bullshit” Epstein files.
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Comey was one of the three lead prosecutors in the government’s case against Maxwell, which saw Epstein’s “madam” convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking minors. The British socialite is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. Comey also worked in the office’s case against Epstein, who was found dead in his jail cell in 2019.
Comey led the prosecution against Combs, who was acquitted of sex trafficking two ex-girlfriends and racketeering conspiracy earlier this month. Combs will be sentenced on Oct. 3 for his conviction on lesser charges of transportation to engage in prostitution.