On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi fired\u00a0Maurene Comey, a prosecutor with the Southern District of New York who had prosecuted deceased financier and child sex trafficker\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein\u00a0and\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comey, a senior trial counsel, is the daughter of former FBI Director\u00a0James Comey, whom Trump fired in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe reason for her firing was not immediately clear. She did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email seeking comment,\u201d Politico said. \u201cComey, who had worked in the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for nearly a decade, prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maurene Comey worked at the SDNY for almost a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maurene Comey\u2019s termination at the DOJ comes amid an investigation into her father, who posted an image of seashells on a beach arranged to say\u00a0 \u201c86 47.\u201d Though \u201c86\u201d is restaurant industry lingo for refusing service to a patron or kicking them out of an establishment, many conservatives insisted Comey was calling for the president\u2019s death. Last week, The New York Times reported that the Secret Service had\u00a0tracked<\/a>\u00a0the former FBI director after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n