Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the cases of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislain Maxwell, as well as the highly publicized trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, was fired by the Department of Justice Wednesday,

Maurene Comey, the federal prosecutor who worked on both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal cases, was fired on Wednesday, multiple outlets reported. The big picture: It was not immediately clear why Maurene Comey was dismissed from her job,