The best investigation is the one that the subject doesn't know about.
I don't know what really happened, and based on these articles, none of us do. Speaking hypothetically, if a client believed someone were going to make allegations of a sexual nature and I was hired to assist with dealing with that, I most certainly would want to know whether this person had made any other such allegations whether formally or informally. I would want to know something about the person's finances. I would want to know something about their family life and family structure. I would want to know "why now" and anything that seemed connected to that, I would want to know. I would want to know a lot of things. You don't investigate because you assume you know everything. You investigate because you don't know everything.
If it comes out that people are investigating, no not optimum. I guess in today's world "investigating" can be called "intimidation", but how you feel about being investigated doesn't mean it was really intimidation or intended to be,
This seems pretty standard to me.
I understand. I too can be sexually intimidating with trying.