Before that he was Deputy Independent Counsel investigating former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy and before that Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
[2] After graduating from law school, Ray was a clerk for Frank Altimari, a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Under independent counsel Donald Smaltz, he prosecuted Mike Espy, and then worked under Ken Starr.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for a non-partisan school board in Brooklyn, New York 1993 and 1996, on the "children's slate."
[1][3][4] In 2020, he served on President Donald Trump's legal defense team before his impeachment trial.