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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US justice department has fired Maurene Comey, a prosecutor who worked on high profile cases including those against the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, according to three people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was dismissed on Wednesday, the people said, though the reason was not clear. She had been a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York for almost a decade, and had recently worked on the case against music mogul Sean Combs.<\/p>\n<p>Maurene Comey did not immediately respond to requests to comment. The DoJ and the SDNY declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Comey\u2019s firing comes as Trump is trying to contain criticism from his Maga base about his administration\u2019s handling of documents linked to Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>During his election campaign, Trump promised to release files related to Epstein\u2019s death, which has been at the centre of a conspiracy ever since he died by suicide in 2019. Attorney-general Pam Bondi in February told Fox News that a list of the financier\u2019s clients was \u201csitting\u201d on her desk for review.<\/p>\n<p>But last week, the Department of Justice and the FBI published a memo that stated there was no \u201cclient list\u201d and no \u201ccredible evidence\u201d that Epstein blackmailed prominent people. It also said Epstein died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Loomer, the Maga influencer, who has attacked Bondi\u2019s handling of the matter and previously called for Comey to be fired, marked the move in a post on X on Wednesday evening: \u201cThis comes 2 months after my pressure campaign.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Trump has defended Bondi, and earlier on Wednesday labelled the matter an \u201cEpstein hoax\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009perpetrated by the Democrats\u201d and said \u201csome stupid Republicans\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009fall into the net and so they try and do the Democrats\u2019 work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Trump fired James Comey during his first term. Earlier this year the former FBI head posted on social media a picture of a seashell arrangement that Trump supporters claimed incited violence against the president. Comey said in a post online that he did not realise the image could be associated with violence.<\/p>\n<p>In the case against Combs, known as \u201cDiddy\u201d, the rapper was this month acquitted of the most serious charges against him but convicted of prostitution-related offences. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>#justice #department #fires #Jeffrey #Epstein #prosecutor #Maurene #Comey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US justice department has fired Maurene Comey, a prosecutor who worked on high profile cases including those against the late convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, according to three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[574,570,512,571,511,569,573,572],"class_list":{"0":"post-323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-comey","9":"tag-department","10":"tag-epstein","11":"tag-fires","12":"tag-jeffrey","13":"tag-justice","14":"tag-maurene","15":"tag-prosecutor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}