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In It to Win It

(11,209 posts)
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:43 PM Jul 16

Maurene Comey, daughter of James Comey, is fired from her job as a federal prosecutor

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment.

Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have faced a firestorm of criticism over their decision not to release additional files related to Epstein, the disgraced financier whom the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office charged with running a child prostitution ring. He died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/maurene-comey-fired-doj-00458921
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1. Trump: Stop talking about Epstein. Also Trump: *Fires the prosecutor*
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:44 PM
Jul 16

Real genius and savvy move there, buddy.

Ocelot II

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2. Was she fired because she's Jim Comey's daughter or
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:45 PM
Jul 16

because she prosecuted Epstein and Maxwell? Or both?

mzmolly

(52,383 posts)
4. Both. And, it's part of their sham to say that the Epstein investigation
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jul 16

was 'rigged' and Maxwell should be free because there is nothing to see here.

allegorical oracle

(5,429 posts)
10. That was my reaction, too. What? Were Epstein/Maxwell improperly prosecuted? Were
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 07:50 PM
Jul 16

they really innocent? If they didn't commit the crimes of which they were accused, then nobody's guilty.

kentuck

(114,447 posts)
3. For all the deserved criticism that Comey received for the election of 2016....
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 06:48 PM
Jul 16

He never bent to kiss the ring of Trump.

Response to In It to Win It (Original post)

Totally Tunsie

(11,014 posts)
11. The written media really need to begin putting "suicide" in quotes
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:05 PM
Jul 16

when reporting on Epstein's death.

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