With an air crash, he explains, a team is assigned to investigate the incident and identify the cause.

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Anti-terrorist prosecutor Armanda Spataro has been assigned to investigate the assault, police said.

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Let's talk first about the man who's been assigned to investigate this.

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The Met has assigned 30 officers to investigate how details of police records of the argument ended up being published by two national newspapers.

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The plaintiffs in the pending actions against Equifax claim the company violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act by failing to fully investigate complaints that it had mistakenly assigned them negative credit events.

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