Maurene Comey: Prosecutor in Diddy and Epstein cases fired by US justice department

It is not clear why Maurene Comey was removed from her job at the elite justice department office in Manhattan.

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It is not clear why Maurene Comey was removed from her job at the Southern District of New York, but her exit was confirmed by sources to the BBC's US partner CBS.

She is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, whom President Donald Trump fired in 2017.

The justice department has been firing lawyers who worked on cases that angered the president, including a special prosecutor investigation of Trump.

Ms Comey - who had been a trial lawyer at the high-profile justice department office in Manhattan since 2015 - was given no explanation for her firing, a person familiar with the matter told Politico.