President Trump's FBI Pick Christopher Wray: 5 Things To Know

President Trump has nominated a relatively unknown figure in the legal world to be the next director of the FBI, while making his mark in the New Jersey political world in recent years.

Christopher Wray, 50, served as Gov. Chris Christie's attorney during the infamous Bridgegate political payback scandal that involved the closure of lanes to the George Washington Bridge. But Wray also has had a length career that stretches back three decades, and has served more than one president.

Here are five things to know about Wray:

• Wray held onto the cell phone Christie used during Bridgegate and never let go, according to Matt Katz, who covers Christie for WNYC. The phone was never obtained by feds during the investigation that led to three convictions.

• In 2003, Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush as assistant attorney general in charge of the Department of Justice's criminal division, according to NBC News. The Senate unanimously confirmed him, and he served until 2005 before returning to private practice, specializing in white-collar crime. Wray led the Enron Task Force when he was with the department. Wray has been a partner at the King & Spalding law firm since 2005.
• Wray played a pivotal role in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, providing oversight of operations as the country "adjusted to a new reality," according to The New York Times. He had joined the Justice Department as an associate deputy attorney general that same year.
• Before joining the Justice Department, Wray served as a federal prosecutor in Atlanta. Wray graduated from Yale University in 1989 and earned his law degree in 1992 from Yale Law School.
• When Wray was assistant attorney general from 2003 to 2005, former FBI Director James Comey was the deputy attorney general. Wray was willing to resign along with Comey in 2004, during Comey’s showdown with the White House over the plan to renew the National Security Agency’s Terrorist Surveillance Program while then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized, according to The Washington Post.

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