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https://abcnews.go.com/US/maurene-comey-fired-doj-southern-district-new- york/story?id=123817739
The Justice Department on Wednesday fired Maurene Comey from the United
States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where she
most recently led the prosecution of Sean "Diddy" Combs, multiple sources
told ABC News.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan declined to
comment. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately
respond to a call for comment
Comey was a highly regarded assistant U.S. attorney who successfully
prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and multiple gang members before the split verdict earlier this
month in the trial of Combs, who was convicted of a prostitution-related
charge but acquitted of more serious charges.
Comey was also involved in the office's case against Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 at New York City's Metropolitan Correctional Center while
he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Comey is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who President
Donald Trump fired during his first term in office because he initiated
the Russia investigation.
According to sources, Trump privately vented about having a Comey work in
his administration.
This marks the latest shake-up for the nation's most prominent federal prosecutor's office.
In April, the office's top prosecutor, Matthew Podolsky, agreed to step
aside, clearing the way for Trump to install Jay Clayton, his nominee for interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York,
Podolsky had taken over for Danielle Sassoon, who in February resigned in protest of the Justice Department's order to drop corruption charges
against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Sassoon had been named interim U.S. attorney by Trump when the president
fired Edward Kim, who assumed the role during the change in
administrations.
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