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The review examined "exception" appointments, whereby the normal civil service recruitment rules are bypassed.

“When we’re really emotionally stimulated, it makes it so much more challenging to have civil conversation. For politicians, I think that’s powerful, because emotions can be very easily manipulated.”

Despite those efforts, “there is evidence that the problems continue,” the civil rights office concluded.

Reinhold Mueller, who also claimed he was harassed and nearly “run off the road” in the lead-up to the trial, according to a civil lawsuit, police reports and a video reviewed by The Times.

Buzbee’s law firm has filed many of those civil lawsuits against Combs since his arrest in September.