The US Department of Justice has reportedly fired a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and, more recently, hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
It is not clear why Maurene Comey was removed from her job at the Southern District of New York, according to US media. She is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Donald Trump fired in 2017.
She has been a prosecutor at the high profile justice department office in Manhattan since 2015.
The justice department has been firing lawyers who worked on cases that irked the president, including the 2021 US Capitol riot and attorneys who helped a special prosecutor investigate Trump.
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