A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Justice Department illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York.
Comey was abruptly fired last July from her job as an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she had served for roughly a decade and oversaw some of the department’s most high-profile prosecutions – including cases against Jeffrey Epstein, Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs, and former Senator Robert Menendez.
She sued to challenge her termination last year, arguing it violated ‘multiple provisions’ of the Civil Service Reform Act – a law designed to protect
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