The Justice Division on Wednesday fired Maurene Comey from the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York, the place she most just lately led the prosecution of Sean “Diddy” Combs, a number of sources advised ABC Information.
A spokesman for the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace in Manhattan declined to remark. A spokesperson for the Justice Division didn’t instantly reply to a name for remark
Assistant U.S. Legal professional Maurene Comey is exterior court docket throughout the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ intercourse trafficking trial, June 3, 2025.
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Comey was a extremely regarded assistant U.S. legal professional who efficiently prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, the previous affiliate of intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, and a number of gang members earlier than the cut up verdict earlier this month within the trial of Combs, who was convicted of a prostitution-related cost however acquitted of extra critical expenses.
Comey was additionally concerned within the workplace’s case towards Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 at New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Correctional Middle whereas he was awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking expenses.
Comey is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who President Donald Trump fired throughout his first time period in workplace as a result of he initiated the Russia investigation.
In keeping with sources, Trump privately vented about having a Comey work in his administration.
This marks the most recent shake-up for the nation’s most distinguished federal prosecutor’s workplace.
In April, the workplace’s high prosecutor, Matthew Podolsky, agreed to step apart, clearing the way in which for Trump to put in Jay Clayton, his nominee for interim U.S. legal professional for the Southern District of New York,
Podolsky had taken over for Danielle Sassoon, who in February resigned in protest of the Justice Division’s order to drop corruption expenses towards New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Sassoon had been named interim U.S. legal professional by Trump when the president fired Edward Kim, who assumed the position throughout the change in administrations.
