The firing of Maurene Comey, a prosecutor on the Epstein cases, and her lawsuit
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
In July 2025 the Justice Department fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan who worked on cases against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Sean "Diddy" Combs and is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.[1][2]She sued over her firing, and in October 2026 a judge ruled that the administration had fired her illegally.[3][4]
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She sued over her firing, and in October 2026 a judge ruled that the administration had fired her illegally.[3][4]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
21%0%
Jul 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 7 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (4 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Oct 26, 2026
17
24
19
60 of 473
13%
Dec 1, 2025
1
3
1
5 of 177
3%
Sep 15, 2025
7
7
2
16 of 191
8%
Jul 14, 2025
10
19
9
38 of 184
21%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Oct 25, 2026 · first reported · Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In a note to colleagues after her dismissal, Comey wrote that "fear is the tool of a tyrant."[2] She sued the Trump administration in September 2025,[3] and the department sought to dismiss the suit, arguing that she had not followed administrative complaint procedures.[5] The ruling in her favor sharply rebuked the administration's authority to fire career officials.[4] The prosecutions of her father are followed in another arc.
