In a move that could ignite one of the most consequential accountability battles in recent memory, former FBI Director Christopher Wray was officially referred for criminal prosecution on Thursday. The referral, filed by the Oversight Project, accuses Wray of lying to Congress about foreign election interference and providing false testimony regarding the FBI’s targeting of traditional Catholics.

The explosive development was first reported by The Blaze, which obtained the referral exclusively. According to the filing, Wray may have obstructed Congress, engaged in corrupt conduct, and made false statements — serious allegations that strike at the heart of public trust in federal law enforcement.

At the center of the controversy is a bombshell revelation from FBI Director Kash Patel, who now leads the Bureau under President Donald J. Trump’s second-term administration. Patel revealed that a classified intelligence report from August 2020 warned of a Chinese Communist Party plot to interfere in the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden.

“Former FBI leadership withheld the facts and misled the public on China’s 2020 election interference,” Patel said Thursday. “And they did so for political gain.”

He added, “We’re restoring trust — through transparency, not politics.”

The intelligence report, discovered by Patel, reportedly includes “alarming allegations” that the Chinese regime manufactured and shipped thousands of fake U.S. driver’s licenses into the country in the months leading up to the 2020 election — part of a scheme to enable fraudulent mail-in voting.

Supporting that claim, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had already announced in mid-2020 that officers at Chicago O’Hare’s International Mail Facility seized 1,513 shipments containing over 19,800 counterfeit driver’s licenses, most of which originated from China and Hong Kong.

Yet, in sworn testimony before Congress in 2020 and 2021, Wray flatly denied any such threat existed.

“We have not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election,” Wray told the Senate Homeland Security Committee in 2020.

In March 2021, he doubled down before the Senate Judiciary Committee: “The FBI is not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome of the presidential election.”

But Patel says those statements directly contradict the evidence in the August 2020 report, which was “abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public.”

The Oversight Project’s referral, authored by its president Mike Howell, argues it is virtually impossible Wray was unaware of the intel report at the time of his testimony. The group is demanding the Justice Department prosecute Wray for deliberately deceiving Congress and the American people.

That’s not the only fire Wray is under.

The watchdog’s referral also blasts Wray over his alleged lies regarding the infamous anti-Catholic FBI memo that originated from the Richmond field office. That memo, which targeted “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” was initially downplayed by Wray as a “single field office product.” But Howell says Wray knowingly withheld key details — including the existence of a second version of the memo that was intended for distribution across the entire Bureau.

“[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,” Howell wrote.

Despite the gravity of the charges, Howell admitted that real accountability still faces long odds: “I don’t expect accountability, but we certainly deserve accountability. To expect it would be unrealistic optimism.”

Still, the referral marks one of the most significant developments yet in the broader push to drain the swamp and restore transparency and justice in the federal government. If substantiated, it could also vindicate President Trump’s longstanding warnings about corruption at the highest levels of the FBI.

The DOJ and FBI, now under new leadership, must act swiftly. If there was ever a case to show that “no one is above the law,” this is it.