Wow, you can see here he was going to get special treatment just because they knew he would pull this victim stunt. In opposite to persecution, it seems we have an ID affirmative action program going, kind of like how you don't want to fire the black gay woman who mishandled artifacts for fear she'll pull the black/gay/gender card and ruin your day.
ID goes PC!
"Special treatment" is a strange view of not getting "fired". The emails clearly state no cause for that action. That Sternberg's sponsor died would have been the "crime".