The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and daughter of former FBI Director Maurene Comey was dismissed this Wednesday after nearly a decade working for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, most notably in the prosecution of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Sources cited by the news website Politico and The New York Times have confirmed that U.S. authorities have dismissed the prosecutor who, in 2019, along with other judges, filed charges of sex trafficking of minors against Epstein, who later committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on the charges, and against Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the same case.
The reasons for the dismissal have not been disclosed, although it should be noted that Comey’s position reports to US Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has received widespread criticism from the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement in recent days for a lack of transparency, after the FBI and the Department of Justice concluded that there is no “client list”—known as the “Epstein list”—that includes the names of all the people involved in the parties hosted by the New York billionaire and in the child trafficking network.
President Donald Trump himself has requested that this investigation be closed, in what he has repeatedly described as an attempt to destabilize the government. In fact, he has accused former FBI Director James Comey, father of the now-fired prosecutor, and political rivals of “fabricating” its contents.
Former Trump adviser Elon Musk accused the president of appearing in documents about the child trafficking case shortly after leaving the Department of Energy Efficiency (DOGE) in early June, although he later retracted his statement and deleted the incriminating message.
