Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, who helped prosecute Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jeffrey Epstein

Justice Department fires Maurene Comey, who helped prosecute Sean

There is no public information indicating that Maurene Comey, sister of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired from the Department of Justice.

While Maurene Comey had a career as a prosecutor, news reports do not show her being involved in the prosecutions of Sean "Diddy" Combs or Jeffrey Epstein, and there is no credible source reporting her termination from the Department of Justice.

Therefore, the premise of the prompt is incorrect.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, according to three sources, including one former Justice Department prosecutor.

She was given a memo informing her of the firing, two sources said. According to one source, the memo stated in part that she was being dismissed pursuant to Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which is the portion of the Constitution that lays out the president's powers.

Maurene Comey served as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan, where she was the lead prosecutor on the criminal case against — a case that ended in acquittal on the most serious charges but convictions for interstate prostitution.

She also helped lead the criminal prosecutions of and . Maxwell was for helping Epstein underage girls for at least a decade between the 1990s and 2000s. She appealed her conviction to the Supreme Court.

In 2017, President Trump James Comey as FBI director, amid the department's investigation into any ties between Mr. Trump's associates and Russia. James Comey is currently under a Justice Department investigation after he provoked an outcry from the Trump administration when he briefly posted a photo to Instagram that federal officials alleged was a call for violence against Mr. Trump.

Maurene Comey worked as a prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York since 2015, according to Comey's . Prior to that, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska in New York and an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton.

She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2013 and received her bachelor's from the College of William and Mary in 2010.