Christopher Wray will be the next director of the FBI. This was announced by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Twitter. He is a fifty-year-old former Justice Department official who has been working as a lawyer for the King & Spalding firm since 2005. The appointment takes place just on the eve of the hearing in Washington of his predecessor James Comey, torpedoed by President Trump months ago: Comey promised burning revelations, anticipating that during a dinner on January 27, Trump would ask him to drop the investigation into Flynn .
In 1997, Wray began his government career in the Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia, moving to the Justice Department in 2001; in 2003, President George W. Bush selected him to lead the department's penal division, receiving unanimous confirmation from the Senate. In that role, Wray dealt with cases involving corporate fraud, money laundering, and terrorism. He was the lawyer for the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, during the 'Bridgegate' scandal that marked the beginning of his second term, concerning the George Washington Bridge, the bridge that connects Manhattan to New Jersey, which would have been closed to make trouble for Mark Sokolich, the Democratic mayor of small-town Fort Lee, who hadn't backed Christie's re-election as governor. Three key Christie associates have been found guilty of federal crimes, while all charges against Christie have been dropped. Wray is married with two children; he lives in georgia.
