Maurene Comey urges DOJ colleagues to stand up to 'abuses of power' in memo after her firing

A day after she was fired as an assistant U.S. attorney, Maurene Comey — the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey — urged her colleagues Thursday not to let fear of retribution "seep into" their decisions and to fight back against "abuses of power.""Every person lucky enough to work in this office constantly hears four words to describe our ethos: Without Fear or Favor.

A day after she was fired as an assistant U.S. attorney, Maurene Comey — the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey — urged her colleagues Thursday not to let fear of retribution "seep into" their decisions and to fight back against "abuses of power."

"Every person lucky enough to work in this office constantly hears four words to describe our ethos: Without Fear or Favor. Do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons without fear of retribution and without favor to the powerful," she wrote in a memo to her colleagues.

The Justice Department fired Comey on Wednesday. She was a key figure in several high-profile cases, including the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs and the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019, has been the subject of conspiracy theories that have become a major source of contention between President Donald Trump and some of his supporters.

Comey said that she was not given a reason and that her termination was done via a memo.