Who is Christopher Wray?

Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, has been getting threats from supporters of former US President Donald Trump. He denounced the violent rhetoric that he has been facing days after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Florida residence.

The FBI has still not clarified if Christopher Wray had personally given orders to carry out the raid. Wray said that the threats circulating online against federal agents and the Justice Department were “deplorable and dangerous.”

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Who is Christopher Wray?

Christopher Wray has been serving as the eighth Director of the FBI. He was appointed as the agency’s director in 2017 by Donald Trump. He succeeded James Comey.

Christopher Wray, 55, was born in New York City. He joined Yale University to pursue his bachelor’s degree, which he completed in 1989. He then went on to pursue his law degree from Yale Law School in 1992.

To kick off his career in American law, Christopher Wray clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. After completing his clerkship, Wray joined the international law firm of King & Spalding LLP and practiced law for nearly 17 years. His area of expertise was government investigations and white-collar crime.

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Wray also joined the Department of Justice as an assistant US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, where he worked on matters related to public corruption, gun trafficking, drug offenses and financial fraud. He was later promoted to associate deputy attorney general, and then principal associate deputy attorney general in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General in Washington DC.

Then-US President George W. Bush nominated Wray to take over as the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. He was given the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the Justice Department’s highest award for leadership and public service.