{"id":29629,"date":"2025-07-17T08:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29629"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:28:40","slug":"prosecutor-in-diddy-and-epstein-cases-fired-by-us-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/07\/17\/prosecutor-in-diddy-and-epstein-cases-fired-by-us-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor in Diddy and Epstein cases fired by US Department of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US Department of Justice has fired a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.<\/b><\/p>\n

It is not clear why Maurene Comey was removed from her job at the Southern District of New York, but her exit was confirmed by sources to the BBC’s US partner CBS.<\/p>\n

She is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Donald Trump fired in 2017.<\/p>\n

The justice department has been firing lawyers who worked on cases that angered the president, including a special prosecutor investigation of Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Comey – who had been a trial lawyer at the high-profile justice department office in Manhattan since 2015 – was given no explanation for her firing, a person familiar with the matter told Politico.<\/p>\n

Her exit comes as Trump and the justice department’s leader, Attorney General Pam Bondi, face backlash over the administration’s handling of files relating to Epstein.<\/p>\n

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