Cuccinelli's office served a formal "Civil Investigative Demand" (CID) on the University of Virginia on 23 April 2010, requiring the university to produce information and documentary materials by 27 May 2010 [REF].
On 4 May the Washington Post published Cuccinelli's comments describing the request as part of an "open inquiry" into whether Mann had made "knowing inconsistencies" when applying for research funding.