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From last summer: Christopher Wray, the man Donald Trump has selected to head the It’s your regularly scheduled reminder that normal people are shocked by Biglaw salaries. Not to say making over $800K a month isn’t an extravagant haul in a country where the median annual income is $51,939 a year, but it shouldn’t bring the presses to a screeching halt to learn that a Biglaw partner is taking home a multimillion-dollar draw. This is what lawyers do. When you’re filling the proverbial swamp, you need a whole bunch of wealthy professionals. And, sure, it involves an ethically discomfiting revolving door — Wray himself is a former assistant attorney general who took the last 12 years to amass a small fortune before going back on the government payroll to investigate many of the companies he just defended — but we knew all that already. Of more interest is just how much more he’s making than his colleagues. King & Spalding profits per partner clock in at a little over $2.5 million, so Wray is lapping the average PPP three times over. I don’t know how transparent the King & Spalding partnership is, but I’d like to think there’s a King & Spalding partner toiling for a million five out there who opened the newspaper today and went, “The f**k?” One thing we know for sure is that, once confirmed, Wray will have to pack up and move to antiquated digs in the Hoover building after today’s announcement that the FBI is giving up on its dream of moving to a new office. It’s too bad. If only there were a real estate developer in the government capable of negotiating a better deal. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Your post made me look up Wray's background. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_A._Wray Wray joined the government in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2001, he moved to the Justice Department as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. On June 9, 2003, President George W. Bush nominated Wray to be the 33rd Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department. Wray was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 2003. Wray was Assistant Attorney General from 2003 to 2005, working under Deputy Attorney General James Comey. While heading the Criminal Division, Wray oversaw prominent fraud investigations, including Enron In March 2005, Wray announced that he would resign from his post His last day at the Justice Department was on May 17, 2005 Wray joined King & Spalding in 2005 as a litigation partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., and Atlanta offices. Wray represented several Fortune 100 companies and chaired the King & Spalding Special Matters and Government Investigations Practice Group. During his time at King & Spalding, Wray acted as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's personal attorney during the Bridgegate scandal. | |||
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