A Washington Post report revealed that a preliminary inquiry had been opened by a federal prosecutor into whether a New York doctor who won White House attention by claiming he could treat the coronavirus broke the law by falsely claiming that a hospital study of drugs he had promoted had won FDA approval.
The prosecutor, Aaron Zelinsky, came upon his investigation accidentally after he was mistakenly e-mailed the information by Jerome Corsi, a conservative commentator who figured in the special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. After a quick check, Zelinsky revealed that the doctor, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, had wrongly claimed that the Food and Drug Administration had backed a study of a drug cocktail that he asserts is effective in treating Covid-19.