Trump’s Justice Department fires ex-FBI chief Comey’s daughter as federal prosecutor
Maurene Comey was a prosecutor in the cases of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Ghislaine Maxwell
The US Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the eldest daughter of former FBI director James Comey and the federal prosecutor in the cases involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
James Comey was fired by US President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, and he is currently under investigation along with former CIA director John Brennan. Trump has previously attacked both Brennan and James Comey for their roles in the investigations about claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, which Trump won.
Maurene Comey could not immediately be reached for comment. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The development was reported earlier by Politico and ABC News.
Maurene Comey, who was an assistant US attorney in the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, was not provided an explanation for her firing and was given a memo that cited the president’s powers to terminate employees under Article 2 of the US Constitution, the two sources said, asking not to be identified.
Maurene Comey had successfully prosecuted Maxwell, a British socialite and associate of Epstein. Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for helping accused sex offender and globetrotting financier Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.