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- DOJ fires Maurene Comey, who helped prosecute Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jeffrey Epstein</p>
<p>Katrina KaufmanJuly 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM</p>
<p>Ted Shaffrey / AP</p>
<p>The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, according to three sources, including one former Justice Department prosecutor.</p>
<p>She was given a memo informing her of the firing, two sources said. According to one source, the memo stated in part that she was being dismissed pursuant to Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which is the portion of the Constitution that lays out the president's powers.</p>
<p>Maurene Comey served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, where she was the lead prosecutor on the criminal case against Sean "Diddy" Combs — a case that ended in acquittal on the most serious charges but convictions for interstate prostitution.</p>
<p>She also helped lead the criminal prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.</p>
<p>In 2017, President Trump terminated James Comey as FBI director. James Comey is currently under a Justice Department investigation after he provoked an outcry from the Trump administration in May when he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against Mr. Trump.</p>
<p>Maurene Comey worked as a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York since 2015, according to Comey's LinkedIn page. Prior to that, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska in New York and an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton.</p>
<p>She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2013 and received her bachelor's from the College of William and Mary in 2010.</p>
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