James Comey’s daughter, Maurene Comey, is one of the three lead prosecutors against Ghislaine Maxwell, a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Maurene Comey, 32, joins Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alex Rossmiller, Alison Gainfort Moe, Andrew Rohrbach, and Lara Elizabeth Pomerantz in leading the case against Maxwell, whose trial begins Monday. They have accused Maxwell of trafficking teenage girls for sex and sexually abusing them with Epstein.
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The Maxwell trial is not the first Epstein-related case Maurene Comey has worked on. When Epstein was indicted in July 2019 for numerous sex crimes, she served as one of the lead prosecutors against him before his alleged suicide a month later. Another case she worked on was on Nicholas Tartaglione, a brief roommate of Epstein at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019, according to Business Insider.
Comey’s LinkedIn page reveals she has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York since 2015. She graduated from The College of William and Mary in 2010, earning her bachelor’s degree in history and music, later earning her doctorate of law at Harvard Law School in 2013.
Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 over charges alleging she helped Epstein in a coordinated child prostitution operation. She has been kept at the Metropolitan Detention Center for the last 16 months and has been refused bail several times.
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Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to the charges from the prosecutors, denying all misconduct. On Nov. 19, she attempted to gain access to documents in a settlement fund for Epstein’s victims. Jordana Feldman, the administrator of the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program, filed a letter in court that said she intends to “quash defendant Maxwell’s subpoena directed to her.”
