Attorney General of United State Pam Bondi, has fired Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office. She worked on the prosecutions of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director’s dismissal came via a memo citing Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, though no detailed official reason has been provided by the DOJ.
According to AP sources, there was no specific reason given for her firing, Comey was a veteran lawyer in the Southern District of New York, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department’s prosecution offices.
Her cases included the sex trafficking prosecution of Epstein, who killed himself behind bars in 2019 as he was awaiting trial, and the recent case against Combs, which ended earlier this month with a mixed verdict.
It’s the latest move by the Justice Department to fire lawyers without explanation, which has raised alarm over a disregard for civil service protections designed to prevent terminations for political reasons.
Maurene Comey was long seen as a potential target given her father’s fraught relationship over the last decade with the Republican president. The Justice Department recently appeared to acknowledge the existence of an investigation into James Comey, though the basis for that inquiry is unclear.
Her firing comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi faces intense criticism from some members of Trump’s base for the Justice Department’s decision not to release any more evidence in the government’s possession from Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation.
James Comey was the FBI director when Trump took office in 2017, having been appointed by then-President Barack Obama and serving before that as a senior Justice Department official in President George W. Bush’s administration. But his relationship with Trump was strained from the start, and the FBI director resisted a request by Trump at a private dinner to pledge personal loyalty to the president — an overture that so unnerved the FBI director that he documented it in a contemporaneous memorandum.
Leave a Reply