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Laura Coates Live

DOJ Fires Comey’s Daughter; Had Prosecuted Epstien, Maxwell

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been fired from her job in the Southern District of New York, according to people familiar with the situation. Comey was a prosecutor in the case against accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and more recently against Sean “Diddy” Combs. The reason for her firing was not immediately clear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So just when you thought this Epstein file story could not get any stranger, this happens.

0:09.0

Tonight, Donald Trump's DOJ fired one of the prosecutors who actually got justice for some of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.

0:17.0

I'm talking, of course, about Maureen Comey.

0:19.0

She was part of the prosecution team that was handling the Jeffrey Epstein case in the Southern District of New York.

0:25.5

It never got to trial, of course, because Epstein died in prison.

0:29.5

But Maureen Comey, she did successfully prosecute his accomplice, Elaine Maxwell.

0:35.4

Got her locked up for, what, 20 years? And you may of course remember her.

0:39.3

She was the lead prosecutor on the sex trafficking trial in RICO case of Sean Diddy Combs.

0:44.3

Now, we actually have no clue why Maureen Comey was officially let go from the SDNY tonight.

0:51.3

Her name, though, it might be a clue. Her father, the former FBI director

0:57.9

James Comey, is now the man that Trump is suddenly blaming for the Epstein Files.

1:05.4

I know it's a hoax. It's started by Democrats. It's been run by the Democrats for four years.

1:11.2

You had Christopher Ray in these characters

1:13.4

and Comey before him.

1:15.8

And now Trump is flat out telling his supporters,

1:19.3

if you don't believe the Epstein Fowles are a hoax,

1:22.0

then well, you're an idiot who was quote,

1:24.5

bought into this bullshit, hook, line, and sinker.

1:29.3

It's a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats. And some stupid Republicans and

1:35.0

foolish Republicans fall into the net. And so they try and do the Democrats work.

1:40.9

Now on your screen right now are the supposed fools who fell into the net.

1:46.6

They include the vice president, the attorney general, the director and deputy director of the FBI,

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