Ms. Comey, the daughter of James B. Comey, was a trial lawyer for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, handling the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs. At the time of her firing, Ms. Comey was a highly regarded trial lawyer for the U.S. Maurene Comey was abruptly fired in July 2025 from her job as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.