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NORMAN J CLEMENT RPH., DDS, NORMAN L.CLEMENT PHARM-TECH, MALACHI F. MACKANDAL PHARMD, BELINDA BROWN-PARKER, IN THE SPIRIT OF JOSEPH SOLVO ESQ., INC.T. SPIRIT OF REV. C.T. VIVIAN, JELANI ZIMBABWE CLEMENT, BS., MBA., IN THE SPIRIT OF THE HON. PATRICE LUMUMBA, IN THE SPIRIT OF ERLIN CLEMENT SR., WALTER F. WRENN III., MD., JULIE KILLINGWORTH, LESLY POMPY MD., CHRISTOPHER RUSSO, MD., NANCY SEEFELDT, WILLIE GUINYARD BS., JOSEPH WEBSTER MD., MBA, BEVERLY C. PRINCE MD., FACS., NEIL ARNAND, MD., RICHARD KAUL, MD., LEROY BAYLOR, JAY K. JOSHI MD., MBA, ADRIENNE EDMUNDSON, ESTER HYATT PH.D., WALTER L. SMITH BS., IN THE SPIRIT OF BRAHM FISHER ESQ., MICHELE ALEXANDER MD., CUDJOE WILDING BS, MARTIN NJOKU, BS., RPH., IN THE SPIRIT OF DEBRA LYNN SHEPHERD, BERES E. MUSCHETT, STRATEGIC ADVISORS

“WE ARE NOT POWERLESS, AND THROUGH OUR VIDEOS, WRITINGS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS WE WILL EXPOSE THE ABUSES AND TYRANNY OF THE UNITED STATES DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY 

JUST AS THE VIDEO WAS RECORDED BY THE CELL PHONE CAMERA OF YOUNG DARNELLA FRAZIER, A BORE WITNESS TO THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD, THE BLOG youarewithinthenorms.com BARES WITNESS AND BOTH ALLOWS THE SYSTEM TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE”

BY

The Late Walter F. Wrenn III, M.D

Who’s In Charge

Regulatory Siege: Racism and the Prosecution of Minority Physicians

The published excerpt, of April 24, 2022, from youarewithinthenorms.com, an advocacy blog, stated that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and state medical boards enforce policies that amount to regulatory racism against healthcare providers of color.

This essay examined the widespread problem of regulatory racism, arguing that U.S. law enforcement has repeatedly and unfairly scrutinized medical professionals of color, especially through controlled substance laws. Authors from The Project North Star Group provide historical evidence showing that Black and Brown doctors have been disproportionately targeted for arrest and imprisonment, whether for coding violations in the past or alleged “over-prescribing” during the current opioid crisis.

This trend of punitive measures is identified as a primary factor behind increasing health disparities in the Black community. To address this systemic injustice, the piece urges efforts to identify and hold accountable civil service employees who influence policy and misinterpret regulatory laws as criminal acts, aiming to expose the abuses and tyranny of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

 Allegations of Systemic Targeting

For years, there have been assaults on physicians. In the late nineteen hundreds, the issues were fraud and abuse. They used coding violations to arrest and convict healthcare providers. Eighty-five percent of physicians going to jail were black.

The other fifteen percent were physicians who took care of black patients.  From the early two thousand until now physicians have been arrested, convicted,  and incarcerated for prescribing controlled medication.

Again, black and brown physicians have disproportionately been the victims. During this same period, health disparities within the black community increased. While many reasons have been put forward as to the cause of these disparities, the prosecution of black and brown physicians has become the leading one.

When addiction shifted from heroin and crack cocaine to prescription opiate pain medications, and overdose victims transitioned from primarily black and brown people to white individuals, the opiate epidemic gained national prominence. Like most crises, this one prompted the government and law enforcement to react without fully understanding the complexities involved. 

A key critique is that law enforcement allegedly misused the Controlled Substances Act—intended only as a regulatory statute—to convict doctors who were prescribing medication in good faith criminally.

Laws were passed, and people, including health care providers, went to jail. Pharmaceutical companies were blamed for knowingly manufacturing a “Highly Addictive” medication, and physicians were accused of ” Over-Prescribing”.

Even though the Controlled Substances Act was intended to regulate the manufacture, prescribing, and dispensing of the five classes of controlled substances, law enforcement used it to allege violations by charging health care providers with failing to prescribe the medication for a professional purpose or a legitimate medical reason.

Without offering any proof of the violation, they were able to convict health care providers and have them sentenced to 20 to 30 years in jail, including some to life in prison.

How could this come about when Congress passed a regulatory act, not a criminal act?

Who is responsible for the arrest and incarceration of these health care providers who legally prescribed controlled medication to patients in good faith?

In June, the Supreme Court will hand down a decision in the appeal by Dr. Raun et al. that will determine physicians’ prescribing habits as we advance and the doctor-physician relationship.

Let’s hope they finally exonerate these innocent health care providers who were only trying to help their patients. We need to investigate the origin of these attacks and find out who is in charge. Administrations come and go.

There are, however, career civil service employees who remain in their positions, getting promoted until they retire. These are the people who give information and influence policy from administration to administration. A political appointee is not interested in setting policy.

THE WAR ON DRUG AND DOCTORS OF COLOR THE UNSPOKEN TRUTH OF DIVIDED HEALTHCARE

They leave that to the career employees. After all, they will only be holding their position for a few years enjoying the perks of free government because they supported the winner of the presidential election.

We need to identify these individuals. I am sure they are responsible for all the misinterpretations of the laws that have led to the convictions of health care providers. We need to determine whether there were any financial incentives similar to whistle-blower-type benefits. Who is in charge?

Ultimately, the Project North Star Group vowed to use its platform to expose this tyranny and demand accountability, identifying career civil service employees responsible for misinterpreting laws and influencing these discriminatory enforcement policies.

Walter F. Wrenn III M.D 

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Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel

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The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for what he thought was the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.

Published Dec. 5, 2025Updated Dec. 6, 2025, 9:27 a.m. ET

A former longtime Drug Enforcement Administration agent who rose to help oversee the agency’s financial operations has been charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars in narcotics proceeds for a Mexican drug cartel, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

The former agent, Paul Campo, 61, worked for the D.E.A. for about 25 years, the indictment says, first as a special agent in New York and eventually as a high-level official — the deputy chief of the office of financial operations. He retired in January 2016 and now runs a private consulting business, according to the indictment.

The indictment says that Mr. Campo and an associate, Robert Sensi, 75, laundered about $750,000 in what they believed to be the cartel’s drug proceeds by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and that they agreed to launder far more — $12 million in all.

Mr. Campo and Mr. Sensi were ordered detained on Friday. They each pleaded not guilty. Their lawyers declined to comment after the hearing.

The investigation relied on a confidential informant working under the supervision of law enforcement authorities, according to the indictment. The informant, described in the indictment only as “CS-1,” posed as a cartel member in meetings with Mr. Campo and Mr. Sensi and provided cash that was used in the alleged scheme. There is no indication that Mr. Campo or Mr. Sensi had contact with actual cartel members or that the money used in the investigation went to the group.

The Mexican-based group, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department and maintains its vast drug trade through violence and the bribery of corrupt officials, the indictment says.

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