{"id":127036,"date":"2025-07-17T07:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/17\/trump-administration-fires-sdny-prosecutor-maurene-comey-who-led-high-profile-sex-trafficking-cases\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:17:22","slug":"trump-administration-fires-sdny-prosecutor-maurene-comey-who-led-high-profile-sex-trafficking-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/17\/trump-administration-fires-sdny-prosecutor-maurene-comey-who-led-high-profile-sex-trafficking-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Fires SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey, Who Led High-Profile Sex-Trafficking Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been an SDNY prosecutor since 2015. She prosecuted Sean Combs and handled the cases of late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The move comes as the U.S. Justice Department is weathering heavy criticism over the handling of Epstein-related records.<\/p>\n

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Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been an SDNY prosecutor since 2015. She prosecuted Sean Combs and handled the cases of late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The move comes as the U.S. Justice Department is weathering heavy criticism over the handling of Epstein-related records.<\/p>\n

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Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, has been an SDNY prosecutor since 2015. She prosecuted Sean Combs and handled the cases of late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The move comes as the U.S. Justice Department is weathering heavy criticism over the handling of Epstein-related records. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Comey, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/legal-news-NaysHh.jpeg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}