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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Prosecutor in Epstein case sues Trump justice department over abrupt firing

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Maurene Comey outside federal court in Manhattan in 2019. Photograph: Peter Foley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor involved in cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and who led the recent case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging her abrupt termination as politically motivated retaliation against her father, former FBI director James Comey.

According to the court documents, the justice department fired Comey without cause or explanation on 16 July, citing only “article 2 of the United States constitution and the laws of the United States” in a brief email. When she asked for a reason, the interim US attorney Jay Clayton told her: “All I can say is it came from Washington. I can’t tell you anything else.”

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