The Department of Justice dismissed Maurene Comey on Wednesday of the Office of the United States prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, where she recently directed Sean “Diddy” combs, several sources told ABC News.
A spokesman for the United States Prosecutor’s Office in Manhattan declined to comment. A spokesman for the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a call to comment.

The attached prosecutor of the United States, Maurene Comey, is outside the Court during Sean “Diddy” combs sexual trial, June 3, 2025.
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Comey was an assistant prosecutor of great prestige who successfully prosecuted Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein and multiple gang members before the verdict divided earlier this month in the combing of combs, which was convicted of a position related to prostitution, but breached them for more serious charges.
Comey also participated in the case of the office against Epstein, who died for suicide in 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center of New York City while waiting for a trial for federal positions of sexual trafficking.
Comey is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who President Donald Trump dismissed during his first term because Russia’s investigation began.
According to the sources, Trump was deprived in private about having a job in his administration.
This marks the last shake for the most prominent federal federal office in the Nation.
In April, the main office of the office, Matthew Podolsky, agreed to put aside, cleaning the way for Trump to install Jay Clayton, his nominee for the United States interim prosecutor for the Southern District of New York,
Podolsky had assumed the position of Danielle Sassoon, who in February resigned in protest for the order of justice to withdraw charges of corruption against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams.
Sassoon had been appointed interim prosecutor of the United States by Trump when the president dismissed Edward Kim, who assumed the role during the change in administrations.