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Good teeth, big legs and a bow tie: Inconclusive report details chaos in Northam’s office and how he finally decided it wasn’t him in blackface photo


Lawyers who spent months investigating the racist yearbook photo that appeared on Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page said Wednesday they can’t say for sure whether the governor is or isn’t in the photo, which shows a man wearing blackface standing next to someone in klan robes.

“We weighed all the evidence that we had, and based on that, we cannot conclusively identify either person in the photograph, and that includes Gov. Northam,” said Richard Cullen, a partner at the Richmond law firm McGuireWoods, which investigated the photo on behalf of Eastern Virginia Medical School.

The 55-page report the school released does, however, provide a window into the chaos that unfolded after Northam’s staff learned the image had surfaced and Northam’s response when he saw it on the way to a soldier’s funeral, which he ultimately did not attend.

Northam at times appears to blame his staff for an initial statement admitting it was him and apologizing, which he then contradicted the next day during a widely-mocked press conference in which he admitted to appearing in blackface at a separate dance contest, but not in the photo.

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