Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Maurene Comey, a Southern District of New York prosecutor who had previously prosecuted deceased child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Comey, a senior trial lawyer, is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Trump fired in 2017.
“The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment,” Politico said. “Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.”
Maurene Comey’s dismissal from the DOJ comes during a probe into her father, who uploaded an image of seashells on a seashore organized to read “86 47.”
