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Maurene Comey, a longtime U.S. prosecutor who helped bring criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, sued the Trump administration Monday over her abrupt firing from the Justice Department.

Comey had served at the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York since 2015 before her ousting earlier this year. She called her termination unlawful, "politically motivated," and argued it stemmed largely from the fact that her father is former FBI Director James Comey.

In Monday's lawsuit, Comey's lawyers said her firing violated "multiple provisions" of the Civil Service Reform Act — a law designed to protect government employees, including career federal prosecutors — as well as the First

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