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Christopher
A. Wray
Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
U.S. Department of Justice
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Christopher
A. Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush on June 9, 2003, and confirmed
by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2003, as the 33rd Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Criminal Division. Prior to leading the Division,
he was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft as the Principal Associate
Deputy Attorney General in September 2001. Chris served as Deputy Attorney
General Larry Thompson's ranking deputy, having joined the Department as
Associate Deputy Attorney General in May 2001. From 1997 to 2001, Chris
was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in its
Criminal Division. As a prosecutor in Atlanta, Chris handled a variety of
federal cases and investigations, including securities fraud, public corruption,
racketeering, murder-for-hire, arson, bank robbery, gun trafficking, counterfeiting,
immigration, and others. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Chris
practiced law in the Atlanta, Georgia office of King & Spalding, where
he focused on white collar crime, complex civil litigation, and internal
corporate investigations. He also served as a law clerk to Judge J. Michael
Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1992 to
1993. Chris graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1989 and received
his law degree in 1992 from Yale Law School, where he served as Executive
Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
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