Who is Christopher Wray? Donald Trump picks new FBI boss

CNBC ^ | 06/07/2017 | Ted Kemp and Jacob Pramuk

[SeekAndFind]

Christopher A. Wray, President Donald Trump's pick to succeed James Comey as FBI director, led the federal investigation of Enron and represented Gov. Chris Christie in the Bridgegate scandal.

In a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump said Wray had "impeccable credentials."

Trump tweet: "I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI. Details to follow."

Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush as assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, according to the Justice Department. He held that job from 2003 to 2005.

Wray, a Yale Law School graduate, served on the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force and oversaw the Enron Task Force and other major fraud investigations, according to the Washington law firm King & Spaulding, where he is a litigation partner.

The FBI says the Enron probe was the "largest and most complex white-collar investigation" in the agency's history.

Wray specializes in white collar law and internal investigations, according to the Justice Department site. He represented the New Jersey governor in the scandal surrounding the closing of lanes on the George Washington Bridge in 2013 as a way to attack political opponents. Christie was never charged but two of his allies were convicted.

Before Wray became an assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, he was principal associate deputy attorney General.

[SeekAndFind]

Wray led the Enron Task Force when he was with the Department of Justice.

He represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case.

[KavMan]

Any new FBI Director is better than the corrupt Hillary shill Comey!!

Jim Comey was a corrupt Hillary shill!

[RC one]

I want to know how Mr. Wray feels about Bill and Hillary receiving money from Russia while facilitating their purchase of 1/5th of America’s Uranium mining capacity. I want to know how he feels about unmasking of Michael Flynn and Obama’s surveillance of the Trump team prior to the election.

[samtheman]

I want to know how Mr. Wray feels about Bill and Hillary receiving money from Russia while facilitating their purchase of 1/5th of America’s Uranium mining capacity. I want to know how he feels about unmasking of Michael Flynn and Obama’s surveillance of the Trump team prior to the election.

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I agree.

[heterosupremacist]

Early History: Christopher Asher Wray was born in 1967. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992. He then clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 1993, Mr. Wray started working in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1997, he joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2001, he served at Main Justice as an Associate Deputy Attorney General and, later, as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. Tenure: In 2003, Mr. Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division. He served in that position until 2005. Later Career: After his service at the Department, Mr. Wray returned to private practice, specializing in white collar and internal investigations. https://www.justice.gov/criminal/history/assistant-attorneys-general/christopher-a-wray

[heterosupremacist]

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/history/assistant-attorneys-general/christopher-a-wray

[HarleyLady27]

Well I looked up and read everything I could find on this guy...

He’s good, he’s into fraud and crimes, right down our ally with all the crimes and fraud that Comey has been hiding for years...

I wonder if the rest of the Bushes; Clintons and Obamas have all their files shredded yet? If not, it doesn’t matter, once you put it on an electronic device, it’s out there...

I think I’m going to like this guy...I have liked everyone of President Trump’s people so far and they are hard workers just like he is...yep, I think we are headed for some good times folks...

[bert]

Enron will be eclipsed by Clinton Foundation

[RummyChick]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/07/donald-trump-nominates-christopher-wray-lead-fbi/

“Trump’s choice earned praise from Norm Eisen, a Brookings Institute fellow and former ethics czar for former president Obama.

“Good choice. Oversaw Enron case, which I also spent years of my life on,” Eisen wrote on Twitter. “He was very fair. I endorse.”

[Hostage]

Would like to have seen a bit of regular FBI field office involvement with FBI Badge in his history. But I am guessing the President’s judgment was based on Wray’s honesty and integrity, both of which were lacking in Comey.

Here is the Department’s version which they caution is drawn from various sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete.

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Christopher A. Wray

Early History: Christopher Asher Wray was born in 1967. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992. He then clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 1993, Mr. Wray started working in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1997, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2001, he served at Main Justice as an Associate Deputy Attorney General and, later, as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General.

Tenure: In 2003, Mr. Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division. He served in that position until 2005.

Later Career: After his service at the Department, Mr. Wray returned to private practice, specializing in white collar and internal investigations.

[hoosiermama]

Read quite a bit this morning
One lifting paragraph:

led investigations, prosecutions, and policy development in nearly all areas of federal criminal law, including securities fraud, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and trade sanctions violations, bank secrecy and money laundering offenses, public corruption, intellectual property piracy and cybercrime, and RICO. ....”

[Slyfox]

Comey was "The Fixer."

Any wonder why none of the Clinton felonies went very far? Comey was right there cleaning the room out before the cheese showed up.

He was The Fixer for the Clintons and their little Whitewater problem, for starters.

With each Fixing he got paid handsomely.

He is now a multi-millionaire in the tunes of over 33 million.

How does a regular Joe Friday make himself a millionaire?

Well, he's gets into a position where he becomes The Fixer for all of them.

[RummyChick]

someone said his father is on the Council of Foreign Relations.

Cecil Wray

If that is his father, I will give him a pass on that one for now.

[HLPhat]

>>oversaw the Enron Task Force

Hey that's awesome!/s

That the same Enron whose IT Archeeeetects [Smartest guys in the room, NOT] then went on to never being prosecuted for facilitating the massive fraud perpetrated by Ameriquest/Argent Mortgage?

Uhuh.
The Republic is in great hands now!
Yuge FAIL.

[hoosiermama]

Here’s is family information

http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/christopher-wray-family-children-wife-helen-photo-pictures-facebook-father-mother-son-married-trip-caroline-fbi-yale/

[HLPhat]

>>Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush
"Oops"  

[RummyChick]

So his father is on CFR

I give it a pass for now.

[RummyChick]

I am missing the connection. What is the significance of that person...

[HLPhat]

>>Well, he's gets into a position where he becomes The Fixer for all of them.

"Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush"

[HLPhat]

>>I wonder if the rest of the Bushes;

You miss the part where he was appointed by the Bushes?