Torian said investigators for McGuireWoods met with him on May 10 about his recollection of “a conversation I may have had with the governor” on Feb. 1, the same day that a conservative blog, Big League Politics, first published the photo.

He said Northam was “apologetic” in their Feb. 1 conversation but did not say that he believed he was in the photograph.

“I do not recall him making an admission,” Torian said. “I recall him apologizing.”

Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico, the caucus’s chairman, said he was alerted about the report’s upcoming release from Homan and is looking forward to reading it.

He added, however, that he has “more concerns about how we address some of the systematic racism that shows up in the commonwealth today — in health, education, criminal justice.”

The unearthing of the photo plunged the Northam administration into crisis and prompted widespread calls for his resignation.

It also set off a chain of events that saw two of Virginia’s other top state officials battle their own crises: two women accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault and Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to wearing blackface in college to depict a black rapper.