Ed Morrissey quotes the Wall Street Journal:
Soon after President Trump won the presidential election in November, British drugmaker GSK brought an unusual claim to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior GSK scientist, who formerly worked at rival Pfizer, had told GSK colleagues that Pfizer delayed announcing the success of its Covid vaccine in 2020 until after that year's election.
The scientist disputes that account of what he told colleagues. But prosecutors are taking a closer look at what GSK shared with them, which is potentially politically explosive. Trump for years has claimed that Pfizer sat on the positive results of clinical trials, which could have reflected well on his management of the pandemic. There has never been evidence to support the accusation, and the development of the Covid vaccines is widely viewed as a medical miracle, coming faster than any other vaccine in history.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan has interviewed at least two people in connection with the allegation, including a GSK executive who took notes of a conversation with the former Pfizer scientist, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
Morrissey comments that he's not sure what crime is being investigated here, if any. I suppose that if Pfizer's leaders had been asked previously under oath about suppressing their trial data until two days after the election -- which they probably have been asked -- then this information could prove obstruction of Congress.
There might have been some language in the original government contract stating that Pfizer, in exchange for billions of funding, would find (and announce) a vaccine as soon as possible, and delaying the announcement of the vaccine could be construed, a bit shakily, as fraud.
More like a non-criminal breach of contract, but I don't know.
Some bad behavior, like election-rigging and running psyops against the country, has never been outlawed by a specific criminal code.
It is something to consider as we ponder whether or not to ban Pfizer and other Big Pharma firms from basically bribing the media to always defend them.