Jahd Khalil reports
“OSIG’s investigative process and methods employed during the investigation phase were not of the quality of substance necessary to conduct a thorough review,” said the authors from the law firm Nixon Peabody. “Furthermore, we find it most likely that OSIG’s led investigator was impaired by personal bias and that this bias likely had an impact on the tone and substance of the OSIG Parole Board Report.”
Heavily redacted documents from Virginia's Office of the State Inspector General, addressed to Brian Moran, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's secretary of public safety and homeland security, and provided to The Associated Press in response to an open records request are displayed, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The OSIG has found new problems with victim and prosecutor notification in cases handled by the state parole board, according to other documents provided Tuesday to lawmakers.