Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey and prosecutor of Jeffrey Epstein, is fired
By: James Comey (Yahoo News)
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Maurene Comey, who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and is former FBI Director James Comey's daughter, was fired Wednesday from her job in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment. Spokespeople for the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney's office declined to comment.
Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney's office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have faced a firestorm of criticism over their decision not to release additional files related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who was accused of running a child sex trafficking ring. Prosecutors in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, including Comey, charged Epstein in 2019 with sex trafficking of minors. He died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial on those charges.
Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She is appealing her conviction.
Comey's firing also comes as the Trump administration is reportedly investigating her father, whom Trump has long reviled. The investigations apparently relate to James Comey's role in the probe of links between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia, as well as a recent Instagram post by James Comey that Trump allies saw as threatening to Trump.
And in recent months, Maurene Comey has been the target of renewed attacks by voices in Trump's right-wing base, including Laura Loomer, who called on Bondi to fire her in May. More recently, Loomer has been leading the MAGA base's outcry over the Justice Department's decision not to release further Epstein-related documents.
Maurene Comey was given no explanation for her firing, according to a third person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. That person also said the decision to fire her didn't come from the office's interim U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton, meaning it was likely made by someone at the Justice Department's headquarters.
Maurene Comey's title at the U.S. attorney's office was senior trial counsel. Most recently, she was part of the team that prosecuted Sean "Diddy" Combs, which failed to win a conviction on the most serious charges.
The firing is the latest episode to rock the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office, formally known as the Southern District of New York. Earlier this year, the acting U.S. attorney and several other prosecutors resigned in protest after the DOJ ordered the office to abandon the corruption prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
On Wednesday evening, prosecutors in the office, still shaken by that tumult, rallied around Comey, with dozens of them banding together to escort her out of the office for the last time, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The work of the sick vindictive pricks in Pam Bondis consigliere gang.
It will continue.
The only question to ask ourselves is when we stand firmly against these non-cause firings. Are we just going to let the Trump administration change our form of government to an autocracy? Will Trump rename it an "illiberal democracy" like his 1 buddy Orban? Or will he do the full on Putin thing? I mean, there is not really much difference when it comes right down to it. Both are autocrats. Both have the system rigged in favor of the autocracy. Orban is just a little more lenient with people who speak against him... until he is not. And then you don't hear from them anymore.
Everyone on here has good reason to be terrified at what the government is doing in the name of the people. This is not a game. The administration and its flunkys are not playing for the next 3 1/2 years. They are playing for perpetuity.
If one does not think that they are, one is just fooling oneself. Look, really look, at the government wide changes that they have been making, and ask, "Why?"
Evidently Ms Comey was fired because of her last name, even though she is considered a high quality prosecutor.
The trumpish argument is that she cannot be trusted.
I agree with you that shit is getting out of hand.
she is considered a high quality prosecutor.
She literally just lost a case against a sexual predator.
ChatGPT:
I think we're heading in the direction of critical mass.
www.mediaite.com /media/tv/trump-calls-on-fbi-to-investigate-this-jeffrey-epstein-hoax-that-was-put-out-by-democrats/
Trump Calls on FBI To Investigate ‘This Jeffrey Epstein Hoax’ That Was ‘Put Out by Democ ...
Michael Luciano 3-4 minutes 7/16/2025
President Donald Trump said the FBI should probe what he called “this Jeffrey Epstein hoax,” which he alleged has been perpetrated by Democrats.
Trump’s comments are just the latest bizarre twist in a month that the president and his administration would like to forget.
Last week, the president’s supporters were up in arms over a Department of Justice memo that concluded that deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein did not possess the much-touted client list he was believed to have had. The memo also reiterated the department’s finding that Epstein killed himself in a jail cell in 2019.
MAGA world had long been banking on Trump, a former Epstein associate, to reveal damning information from the Epstein case that would criminally implicate rich and powerful people. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February that Epstein’s list was “ sitting on my desk .” Moreover, FBI Director Kash Patel and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino had long made the Epstein case a pet issue when they were political pundits. Now, however, both men are reportedly disillusioned with Bondi’s findings, and each reportedly mulled quitting the administration.
Trump has responded to the anger among his supporters by ridiculing them .
On Wednesday, he phoned into Real America’s Voice and alleged that the real story is that Democrats pushed what he called the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax.” The president was asked by host John Solomon what he’d like to see the FBI investigate.
Trump responded:
“No, they definitely set the Republicans up,” Solomon replied before asking if Trump would appoint “one big prosecutor to look at it all.”
Trump wasn’t interested.
“Well, I think it’s, in the case of Epstein, they’ve already looked at it and they are looking at it, and I think all they have to do is put out anything credible,” the president replied. “But you know, that was run by the Biden administration for four years. I can imagine what they put into files just like they did with the others.”
Earlier in the day, Trump was asked by a reporter if he would appoint a special counsel to the case.
“I have nothing to do with it,” Trump responded before quickly walking away.
Translation: "I want the FBI to make up something to "prove" that it's a democratic hoax."
Wasn't Epstein prosecuted and died while trmp was in charge? Epstein died in 2019. trmp didn't leave office until 2021
She screwed up a trial and let a sexual predator walk. Results matter
You sound like two idiots I was just watching on CNN, Scott Jennings and Ben Ferguson who bent themselves into pretzels trying to argue she was fired because of the P Diddy case.
It WILL come out that she was fired because Trump hates her father. He is including James Comey in the group he claims are perpetrating the "Epstein hoax". He's a lunatic.
Jennings and Ferguson's justification for this was that Trump "can fire anyone he wants".
Prove that because of her conduct on a trail she got fired.
This had ought to be a great pretzel.
Get out the stone ground mustard
So every prosecutor that loses a case should be fired? Wow...