Trump names his pick for the next FBI Director

U.S. President Donald Trump names former assistant U.S. attorney general Christopher Wray as his nomination for Director of the FBI.

President Trump fired the previous director, James Comey, on May 9.

Wray served as the assistant U.S. attorney general with the Justice Department from 2003 to 2005. he served on President George W. Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Force and oversaw the Enron Task Force and other major fraud investigations.

He has been ranked as a leading litigator in white-collar crime and government investigations by several publications. After 2005, he returned to law firm King & Spalding to chair its Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group.

Source: CNBC