The lead federal prosecutor within the intercourse trafficking case towards Sean “Diddy” Combs was fired from the Justice Division barely weeks after the rapper was acquitted of the extra critical crimes.

Maurene Comey has since spoken up, saying she was fired from her workplace “with out motive” and that the transfer to ax her would solely sow alarm.

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sentencing has been scheduled for October, however there are talks that he should safe the utmost sentence on his prostitution-related expenses.

The lead prosecutors in Diddy’s federal trial have been booted out weeks after his trial ended.

The “Finna Get Free” rapper confronted expenses of intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Nevertheless, after practically two months of trial, he was discovered not responsible of the extra critical intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses however was convicted on two counts of prostitution-related expenses.

A mere two weeks after the ruling, the lead prosecutor within the case, Maurene Comey, was fired; nevertheless, it stays unclear whether or not her dismissal was associated to the rapper’s high-profile trial or different instances she was concerned in, together with that of Jeffrey Epstein.

Sources hinted to CBS that she had been let go on the discretion of Trump’s administration. In a memo, Comey was reportedly knowledgeable that the choice was related to Article 2 of the U.S. Structure, which outlines the president’s powers.

It additionally stays unclear if the transfer is linked to Comey’s familial relationship with former FBI Director James Comey.

The veteran lawyer has now spoken up in her protection, saying she was fired from the Manhattan U.S. legal professional’s workplace “with out motive.”

“Yesterday was unexpectedly my final day within the Workplace. I used to be summarily fired through memo from Essential Justice that didn’t give a motive for my termination,” she wrote in an electronic mail to colleagues, per the New York Submit.

She went additional to counsel that the transfer was an abuse of energy.

“If a profession prosecutor will be fired with out motive, concern might seep into the selections of those that stay. Don’t let that occur,” Comey famous. “Worry is the instrument of a tyrant, wielded to suppress unbiased thought.”

She continued, “As a substitute of concern, let this second gasoline the fireplace that already burns on the coronary heart of this place. A hearth of righteous indignation at abuses of energy. Of dedication to hunt justice for victims. Of dedication to fact above all else.”

Having confirmed Comey’s elimination, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected the notion that President Trump performed any function.

Trump fired the lawyer’s father, James, in 2017 from his function on the FBI after the division investigated the president’s associates and their potential hyperlinks to Russia.

After that, James posted a photograph on Instagram that was seen as a risk to the president and is now below investigation by the DOJ.

Trump’s ties to a lot of the high-profile instances Comey has labored on stay unknown. He is instantly concerned within the Jeffrey Epstein case as he has directed the DOJ to launch “credible” recordsdata on the deceased financier.

Diddy’s staff reportedly thought-about asking for a presidential pardon, however Trump indicated that the concept hadn’t been pitched to him.

“To begin with, I might take a look at what’s taking place,” he advised a reporter in Might, per The Blast. “And I have never been watching it too carefully, though it is actually getting a number of protection. I have never seen him, I have never spoken to him in years.”

The president added, “He used to essentially like me rather a lot, however I feel once I ran for politics, that relationship busted up from what I learn. I do not know, he did not inform me that, however I might learn some nasty statements within the paper impulsively.”