It was not known whether the younger Comey’s firing was connected to the Epstein case or her relation to the former FBI director, who was fired during President Donald Trump’s first term.
The Justice Department and White House have received intense backlash and criticism in recent weeks from Trump’s far-right base over its handling of the Epstein case and the administration’s decision not to release more records related to the former financier’s sex trafficking case. Epstein hanged himself in 2019 while awaiting trial. In 2021, Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking.
Combs was recently partially acquitted in a sex trafficking trial.
The Justice Department acknowledged last week that it had opened a criminal probe into James Comey – a frequent target of Trump who played a role in the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s ties to Russia. During his first presidential term, Trump fired Comey midway through his 10-year term as FBI director.
A spokesman for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.