Trump to Nominate Former Justice Dept Lawyer to Lead FBI

Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray (L), Marc Everson, IRS Commissioner and Alice Martin, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama speak at the Justice Department in Washington on Nov. 4, 2003. ( Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

FBI Director James Comey testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 3, 2017. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

On Wednesday, lawmakers will hear from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department who signed a letter recommending Comey’s dismissal.

 

The president met last week with candidates for the FBI director post, including Wray, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

Wray works for King & Spalding’s Washington and Atlanta offices, handling white-collar criminal and regulatory enforcement cases, according to the firm.

While there, he represented Chris Christie in the Bridgegate scandal, in which two of the New Jersey governor’s aides were convicted. Christie, who became a close adviser to Trump during the campaign and whose name was floated as a possible Comey replacement, was never charged.

At the Justice Department, Wray worked on corporate fraud scandals and cases involving U.S. financial markets, according to his biography on the law firm’s website.

He represented the government in its fraud case against Enron Corp, the collapsed energy company.