The Justice Department abruptly fired New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, whose criminal cases included that of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019. In a note to her former colleagues, Comey told them not to be intimidated by the threat of being arbitrarily fired for political reasons. “Fear is the tool of a tyrant,” she wrote. President Donald Trump has long considered Comey’s father, former FBI Director James Comey, an enemy. Maurene Comey, assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, at a news conference announcing the upcoming arraignment of Jeffrey Epstein, who faces charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in New York, July 8, 2019. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters
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