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🔵 Epstein Prosecutor Fired
Citizen Frank
July 17, 2025
Good evening. It’s Wednesday, July 16.
Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was fired on Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), according to multiple news outlets.
Maurene Comey worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that have troubled the Trump administration in recent weeks amid pressure to release further information about the financier’s dealings.
Comey was on the team that brought sex trafficking charges against Epstein, and he later killed himself in jail while awaiting trial.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said he would try to use a long-shot procedural gambit to force a vote on requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The move comes as President Trump and his administration face blowback from many within the GOP base over their handling of information about the disgraced financier, and as Trump attempts to tamp down the amount of attention the issue is receiving.
“We all deserve to know what’s in the Epstein files, who’s implicated, and how deep this corruption goes. Americans were promised justice and transparency,” Massie said Tuesday in a post on the social platform X.
Amid an explosive fight on Capitol Hill over whether the Trump administration should release records related to Jeffrey Epstein, the family of the disgraced financier’s convicted right-hand woman is saying she “did not receive a fair trial.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2022 for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse, several years after he died in jail awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. She is being held in federal prison in Florida and has filed a petition with the Supreme Court to vacate her 2021 conviction.
“Her legal team continues to fight her case in the Courts and will file its reply in short order to the Government’s opposition in the US Supreme Court,” Maxwell’s siblings said in a statement released Tuesday on a website dedicated to her case.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the IDF had undertaken 160 aerial attacks on Syrian regime forces in and around the vicinity of Sweida in southern Syria, where Israel says the regime’s forces are slaughtering Syrian Druze.
In addition, the IDF has attacked, and possibly destroyed, Syria’s Defense Ministry, and also attacked part of the Presidential Palace in Damascus. Dozens or more Syrian regime forces are said to have been killed in IDF attacks.
IDF sources said that the military is ready for a multi-day campaign to convince Syrian regime forces to withdraw from Sweida and leave the Syrian Druze their autonomy.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Alaska Peninsula on the afternoon of July 16, briefly triggering a tsunami warning for the state’s southern coast as communities were ordered to move inland to higher ground.
The earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in the Aleutian Chain, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Alaska Earthquake Center said the quake was “felt throughout the Alaska Peninsula and southern Alaska.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration initially issued a tsunami warning for the majority of the Alaska Peninsula, spanning into the southernmost part of Alaska’s mainland toward Anchorage.
The CEO of an advocacy group said his organization turned down an offer that he said would have been worth around $20 million to help recruit for a national rally against President Donald Trump.
“Interests aligned with the organizers of the July 17th movement have approached us and, in fact, we rejected an offer that probably is worth around $20 million dollars,” Adam Swart, the CEO and founder of Crowds on Demand, told NewsNation’s Brian Entin in an interview that aired on Tuesday.
On Thursday, protests around the country are being planned against Trump, spearheaded by Good Trouble Lives On, a group that calls itself a peaceful and nonviolent protest and social change organization. They are planning to oppose Trump and what they call on their website “the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.”
President Trump said Wednesday that Coca-Cola has agreed to use “REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United States.”
The beverage giant has been under pressure to reduce sugar in its drinks.
The company currently uses high fructose corn syrup in the original soda recipe, according to its website.
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