Maurene Comey, the federal prosecutor who handled the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was fired from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York Wednesday by the Justice Department, according to ABC News. The reason for Comey’s firing was not immediately clear.

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.