NEW: Senior Biden Official Referred To DOJ Over Infamous Memo

A government watchdog group has referred former FBI Director Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice and the FBI for potential criminal prosecution over allegations that he lied to Congress and obstructed justice in two high-profile cases.

Mike Howell, president of the Washington-based Oversight Project, told Fox News that the referral has to do with an infamous memo that exposed anti-Catholic bias within the bureau’s Richmond office. It also references a documented Chinese plot to distribute fraudulent drivers licenses in an effort to influence the 2020 presidential election.

According to current FBI Director Kash Patel, Wray actively stonewalled the investigation into Chinese election interference. Evidence of the allegation was handed over to Congress for review, Patel told the Daily Mail last month.

The FBI field office in Albany, New York, “recalled” a previous report contradicting Wray’s testimony to Congress that China was not conducting an operation to undermine confidence in the election that year. Patel explained that the Internal Intelligence Report (IIR) was published and then removed from circulation without any notice.

The scheme, which was allegedly hatched to benefit then-candidate Joe Biden, was covered up because it would “contradict” then-FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony before Congress, newly declassified FBI documents reveal.

A number of records, which were obtained by Fox News, include communications between FBI officials ahead of the 2020 election. They were recently declassified by Director Patel and transmitted to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

Wray is further accused of delivering false testimony regarding the infamous anti-Catholic memo, which singled out traditional Catholics as potential extremists who should be subjected to increased monitoring. “Well, what I can tell you is you’re referring to the Richmond product, which is a single product by a single field office, which as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems,” Wray told lawmakers in 2023.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley previously disclosed that the memo was crafted using shoddy research of the radical Southern Poverty Law Center to accuse traditional Catholics of being violent extremists.” The SPLC is a far-left advocacy group that routinely labels moderate conservative groups as “extremists,” which was then used as “evidence” by the FBI to green-light the anti-Catholic memo.

“Based on records I released the other week, there wasn’t just one FBI document that used biased anti-Catholic sources, but over a dozen,” Grassley revealed. “And more FBI field offices were involved than we’d been led to believe,” he added.

A second memo from the Richmond field office was part of a partially redacted series of documents Grassley’s committee transmitted to Director Patel last month, Fox News reported. That document stated that the bureau “assesses RMVE (Racially Motivated Violent Extremism) interest in RTC (Radical Traditional Catholic) ideology is likely to increase … in the run-up to the [2024] general election cycle.”

“Director Wray’s testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second, draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI,” the Oversight Project told the outlet in a separate statement. “That draft product was intended for distribution as a Strategic Perspective Executive Analytic Report (“SPEAR”). It was clearly a separate product.”

The Oversight Project specifically accused Wray of obstruction of proceedings before Congress, perjury and making false statements in its criminal referral.