The Justice Division on Wednesday fired Maurene Comey from the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York, the place she most lately led the prosecution of Sean “Diddy” Combs, a number of sources informed ABC Information.
A spokesman for the U.S. Lawyer’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. Lawyer Maurene Comey is outdoors 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. lawyer who efficiently prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, the previous affiliate of intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, and a number of gang members earlier than the break up verdict earlier this month within the trial of Combs, who was convicted of a prostitution-related cost however acquitted of extra critical costs.
Comey was additionally concerned within the workplace’s case in opposition to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 at New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Correctional Heart whereas he was awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking costs.
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 line with sources, Trump privately vented about having a Comey work in his administration.
This marks the newest shake-up for the nation’s most outstanding federal prosecutor’s workplace.
In April, the workplace’s high prosecutor, Matthew Podolsky, agreed to step aside, clearing the best way for Trump to put in Jay Clayton, his nominee for interim U.S. lawyer 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 costs in opposition to New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Sassoon had been named interim U.S. lawyer by Trump when the president fired Edward Kim, who assumed the function throughout the change in administrations.
