Maurene Comey, the daughter of disgraced former FBI Director James Comey, has been given her walking papers by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who fired a top Manhattan prosecutor for the Department of Justice on Wednesday.
Not only is her oleaginous father in the headlines lately—and is under investigation by the DOJ for possibly manufacturing the fake Russiagate hoax with former CIA Director John Brennan against Donald Trump—but Maurene herself is in the news cycle, considering she worked on the infamous criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Epstein files have given the Trump administration headaches as many pundits and even allies are unhappy with the DOJ’s conclusion that there was no “client list” and that Epstein died of suicide. Trump has responded by saying folks should focus more on the “incredible and unprecedented success” of his tenure and not on some long-dead pervert.
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Why Comey's daughter was fired is still unclear, but it’s hard to imagine she was a trusted figure in the administration with that last name:
The reason for Ms. Comey’s firing was not initially clear. Her dismissal immediately raised questions, given her involvement in cases that have roiled the White House in recent days, as well the fact that her father is the former F.B.I. director James Comey, who was fired by President Trump during his first term.
A spokesman for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. The White House press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, including about whether it had asked the Justice Department to fire Ms. Comey.
Ms. Comey also worked recently on another case that ended badly for the DOJ, the trial of hip-hop mogul Diddy, who was let off by a jury on the most serious sexually related charges against him.
It’s not the first drama to hit the SDNY in recent months:
The firing is the latest episode to rock the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office, formally known as the Southern District of New York. Earlier this year, the acting U.S. attorney and several other prosecutors resigned in protest after the DOJ ordered the office to abandon the corruption prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
On Wednesday evening, prosecutors in the office, still shaken by that tumult, rallied around Comey, with dozens of them banding together to escort her out of the office for the last time, according to a person familiar with the matter.
RedState will continue to bring you more information on this developing story as it becomes available.
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