Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the cases of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislain Maxwell, as well as the highly publicized trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, was fired by the Department of Justice Wednesday,

Maurene Comey was fired Wednesday from her job in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, Politico first reported. CNN and the Associated Press also reported on Comey’s firing, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation.