The U.S. Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the eldest daughter of former FBI director James Comey and the federal prosecutor in the cases involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and music mogul Sean Diddy Combs,

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, according to three sources, including one former Justice Department prosecutor.

Longtime Justice Department lawyer Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was terminated from her role as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, four sources familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.