Maurene Comey, adjunct U.S. lawyer successful the Southern District of New York, astatine a quality league announcing the upcoming arraignment of Jeffrey Epstein, who faces charges of enactment trafficking of minors and conspiracy to perpetrate enactment trafficking of minors, successful New York, July 8, 2019.
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The Jeffrey Epstein authoritative who was abruptly fired by the Justice Department arsenic President Donald Trump comes nether unit to merchandise files connected Epstein suggested Thursday that she was being targeted by a "tyrant."
"If a vocation authoritative tin beryllium fired without reason, fearfulness whitethorn seep into the decisions of those who remain," the prosecutor, Maurene Comey, wrote successful a farewell enactment to unit astatine the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office. "Do not fto that happen."
"Fear is the instrumentality of a tyrant, wielded to suppress autarkic thought. Instead of fear, fto this infinitesimal substance the occurrence that already burns successful the bosom of this place," she wrote successful the note. "A occurrence of righteous indignation astatine abuses of power. Of committedness to question justness for victims."
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Comey was fired Wednesday from the U.S. Attorney's Office, wherever her high-profile prosecutions included cases against Epstein; Epstein's procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell; and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Comey is the girl of erstwhile FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump has considered an force since helium fired the manager successful 2017.
Hours earlier Maurene Comey was fired, Trump lashed retired astatine Republicans who are demanding that the Justice Department merchandise much files astir the Epstein case.
"Their caller SCAM is what we volition everlastingly telephone the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters person bought into this 'bull----,' hook, line, and sinker," Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post.
A fig of Trump's supporters person criticized the caller determination by Attorney General Pam Bondi not to merchandise antecedently undisclosed grounds that was assembled during the Justice Department's probe of Epstein.
The well-connected financier killed himself successful jailhouse successful August 2019, a period aft helium was arrested connected national sex-trafficking charges.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey extracurricular tribunal during Sean "Diddy" Combs' enactment trafficking trial, June 3, 2025.
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