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DOJ Fires 20 Employees Who Worked With Jack Smith On Trump Prosecutions

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Twenty Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who worked with special counsel Jack Smith have been fired.

The terminated staff includes two prosecutors, 12 support staff and six U.S. marshals who assisted with classified documents and the 2020 election investigations against President Donald Trump, an official confirmed to The Daily Caller.

More than a dozen officials who worked with Smith were fired in January, while Smith himself resigned before Trump took office in January. Both of the cases were dismissed after Trump won the election.

Joseph Tirrell, who was director of the Departmental Ethics Office, wrote on LinkedIn Monday that he was terminated by Attorney General Pam Bondi, sharing the letter he received in a post.

“Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,” he wrote. “I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department. I led a small, dedicated team of professionals and coordinated the work of some 30 other full-time ethics officials, attorneys, paralegals and other specialists across the Department of Justice, ensuring that the 117,000 Department employees were properly advised on and supported in how to follow the Federal employee ethics rules.”

In his final report, Smith claimed Trump would have been convicted if he had not won the election. Yet Smith indicated he did not bring insurrection charges because he could not prove Jan. 6 was more than a riot or that Trump incited it.

Smith sought to fast-track the cases ahead of the 2024 election but ultimately failed to bring either one to trial.

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Maurene Comey, a prosecutor with the Southern District of New York who had prosecuted deceased financier and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Comey, a senior trial counsel, is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017.

“The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment,” Politico said. “Comey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Maurene Comey worked at the SDNY for almost a decade.

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