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Government Corruption
Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI Director James, fired from top US Attorney's Office job after working Diddy, Epstein cases
2025-07-17
[NY Post] Maurene Comey,
…U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. Her father used that position as a springboard to greater things, but it looks like dear Maurene will not have the same opportunities despite her resumé…
the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from the powerful Manhattan US Attorney’s Office — where she prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, sources told The Post.

The reason for Comey’s firing, which law enforcement and Department of Justice sources confirmed, was not immediately clear.
According to the US Constitution, the president is the chief executive officer, which means he can hire and fire — with or without cause.
President Trump has a long history of conflicts with the elder Comey and fired him as FBI director in 2017 during his first term.

Maurene Comey, who served as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York since 2015, worked on the prosecutions of the disgraced financier pedophile Epstein and Maxwell, who was found guilty of multiple sex crimes at trial and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The nearly month-long trial ended in a jury acquitting the disgraced hip-hop mogul of the most serious charges against him — racketeering and sex trafficking — that could have landed him life in prison.
If she couldn’t make that stick…
Related:
Maurene Comey 11/29/2021 Lines gather outside NYC courthouse two hours before Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial kicks off today: Her brother claims she is paying 'blood price' because Epstein dodged justice UPDATE: prosecutor is Comey’s daughter
Maurene Comey 07/08/2019 Guess whose daughter is reportedly a prosecutor in SDNY Epstein case

Posted by:Frank G

#7  I, too, would love to have it all happen immediately, DarthVader. Patience is not one of my stengths.

Eloquently laid out, 49 Pan — I am all admiration!
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-07-17 22:20  

#6  Well, that's something. Let's hope Bondi is next.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2025-07-17 21:39  

#5  /\ Second, he needed to root out the corruption's funding, USAID.

A bold step indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2025-07-17 04:54  

#4  TW, we are starting to drain that swamp. Trump and his team have to do it right, like you implied. Comey and Brennon are key leaders in the corruption. Before he could really go after them he had to do a couple of strategic moves, first, turn the American people against the courts. By not racing to the SC every time an activist judge did something stupid it allowed us to see them for the corrupt people they are. It completely eroded our faith in the courts. Second, he needed to root out the corruption's funding, USAID. Now not a single democrat will go near the funding thats still floating around, because we will find it and go after them. So Trump has effectively taken away their funding and top cover. Firing Comey and the DOJ/FBI that were part of J6 put the lower levels on notice. Now he can go after the leaders of the corruption internal to the agencies. Once Comey sr get arrested, he will either sing or commit suicide. Comey and Brennon are generals, not the top, and neither are the clintons or obamas. This is going to get good...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2025-07-17 04:03  

#3  Understand TW, but anyone that is even linked to the previous administration like that snake Comey should have been gone day 2 at least.
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-07-17 00:52  

#2  It seems to me that things getting done in order of priority, compounded by relative urgency, DarthVader. President Trump hasn’t been in office a full six months yet, and his people necessarily even less. It generally takes six months for someone new on the job to find the location of the executive bathroom and lunchroom, and who is in charge of key things needed to get the job done. While this is President Trump’s second time round, almost all of his people are not only new on the job, but many have not been accustomed to rotating in about out of government — they’re new to DC altogether.
Posted by: trailing wife   2025-07-17 00:46  

#1  Why the fuck was she still employed?
Posted by: DarthVader   2025-07-17 00:06  

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