In 2007, while Bush was president, federal investigators at the FBI and U.S. attorney's office prepared to indict Epstein, but negotiations between Epstein’s lawyers and the U.S. attorney's office in Florida’s Southern District led by Alexander Acosta resulted in a secret deal that let Epstein avoid federal charges.

Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting abuses of power.

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey and the federal prosecutor in the Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, according to reports.

Donald Trump fired James Comey over eight years ago, and today he fired the ex-FBI Director’s daughter. In a move that seemed a long time coming due to POTUS’ ongoing immense dislike of Maurene Comey’s father,

Comey, a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case, was fired as President Trump seeks to downplay reaction to the matter.

Longtime Justice Department lawyer Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was terminated as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern

Maurene Comey’s father has been prolifically denouncing President Trump for the last eight years.

Trump is trying to rebrand the furor as the “Jeffrey Epstein hoax.” After all, the word has served him well in the past; “hoax” has been his go-to description for dismissing true stories that he finds unfavorable.

It’s unclear if Comey’s firing is at all tied to the ongoing controversy over the Epstein files, and it comes as numerous DOJ staff have separately been fired or left the agency voluntarily, with Reuters reporting two-thirds of the staff tasked with defending the administration’s policies have quit.

Once again, President Donald Trump was caught in a scandal and a Comey got fired. The strange and fateful entanglement between two powerful families jumped into a new generation this week when Maurene Comey got the sack from her job as one of New York’s top prosecutors.