May 30, 2017

Meet Christopher Wray, Trump's choice for FBI director

AP

President Trump is interviewing another person for FBI director to replace James Comey: Christopher Wray.

Chris Wray is the former Assistant Attorney General.

  • He served during George W. Bush's administration as the former chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, from 2003-2005.
  • He "was a member of the administration's Corporate Fraud Task Force and oversaw the fraud prosecutions of former executives at Enron Corp," per USA Today.
  • He left the Justice Department in 2005 to work as a litigation partner at the King & Spalding law firm.
  • Wray was Chris Christie's personal lawyer during the Bridgegate scandal and he has represented various Fortune 100 companies.
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