The details are not clear but the investigation seems to be based on the following series of events:
1. Jerome Corsi who is a “commentor” (e.g. on twitter or other places) sent an e-mail to Zelenko and it said something about Zelenko claiming he had a FDA approved study for his treatment plan.
2. Instead of sending the e-mail to Zelenko it was sent by accident to Zelinsky a federal prosecutor.
3. Zelinsky, looked up on a FDA site for a list of FDA approved studies and did not see any such study approved.
— It should be apparent that the government is tasked with investigating people making false claims regarding medicine. A statement that someone is doing a FDA approved study, when they are not is problematic.
4. Accordingly, Zelinsky the prosecutor, reached out to Corsi’s attorney and requested copies of all communications with Zelenko.
5. Corsi said that Zelenko said he had a FDA approved study to another physician at a training event.
6. Coris said he asked Zelenko about it and he thinks Zelenko meant it was a hospital-panel approved study and did not understand what it meant to have a FDA approved study.
7. Corsi said he is cooperating with the Feds (Zelenko says he has not been contacted by the Feds).
— I don’t think anyone should make a big deal about this investigation. It seems warranted based on the inadvertent e-mail the prosecutor received and assuming Zelenko was not trying to promote a false claim that he had a FDA approved study, little reason to assume that anything will come of this. To say this is about politics is to say that apparently false claims made by people with politics you disagree with should not be investigated ever. If the other communications support that there was no intent here to promote a false claim, this like many other inquiries will be filed away with nothing happening.