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THE PROJECT NORTH STAR GROUP
CASE AGAINST THE D.E.A.
RISE AND THE MISSION OF THE FILTERED NEGROE
The You Are Within the Norms article “Of Role Models And Invisible Men Expsoing The Rise And The Mission of The Filtered Negroe” published June 20, 2020 presented a detailed document and guide exposing corruption systemic rot, emphzing that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) select malicious targeting of Black-owned pharmacies and medical professionals through practices based on racial bias and poor legal understanding.
Through the research of Project North Star, joined with Clinical Pharmacist Jack Folson, submitting an Amicus Brief to forcefully challenge the Drug Enforcement Administration’s attempt to sanction Pronto Pharmacy, arguing that the agency’s actions represent an economic lynching of Black owned pharmacy businesses and demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of specialized medical care. The document systematically rebuts the DEA expert’s interpretation of common diversion “red flags” by explaining that issues like specialized high-dose prescriptions, cash payments, and patient travel distance are merely characteristics of normal specialty practice in compounding and pain management. Folson’s central purpose is to prove that the DEA’s overreach and subsequent criminalization of pain management severely impede legitimate patient care and undermine the actual standard of pharmacy practice.
It chronicles the case of Pronto Pharmacy LLC, Tampa, Florida, Oak Hill Pharmacy, Oak Hill West Virgina, Lincourt Pharmacy, Clearwater Florida At Cost Pharmacy, Ft. Myers Florida alleging that DEA investigators, particularly Diversion Investigator Richard James Albert in the case of Pronto Pharmacy, LLC of Tampa, Fl and his supervisor Susan Langston, in cases of Lincourt Pharmacy, At Cost Pharmacy, Superior Drug Pharmacy Inc., Gulf Med Pharmacy, of Naples Florida falsely redefined pharmaceutical compounding as illegal manufacturing and Red Flags ascode word termsto justify these raids, business destruction, and the revocation of DEA license Certificates.
(Mr. Fishman): “Q. Is the government targeting physicians a form of selective prosecution to create statistics regardless of the merit of the case? … Ans. (AUSA Donald Zerendow) confirmed..”That’s exactly what I’m saying..sometimes the truth falls to the need to perform..” …1994 USA Today The Barbara Reynolds files
THE SYSTEMATIC TARGET BY D.E.A. OF PRONTO PHARMACY, TAMPA, FL.
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PART-2: WHEN THE DEA DIVERSION INVESTIGATORS JAMES albert’s NUMBERS Didn’T ADD UP
The authors of the North Star Group of medical advocates called for the defunding and disbanding of the DEA due to their alleged corruption, incompetence regarding pharmaceutical law, and the resulting harm inflicted on patients and minority-owned businesses. They draw parallels between the historical oppression faced by prominent Black figures and the current systemic injustice experienced by Black medical practitioners labeled as “filtered negroes” who dare to speak out.
The Professional and Personal Consequences of Targeting
The targeting of Black professionals, particularly those in the medical fields such as pharmacy, dentistry, and medicine, is extensively discussed in the sources, highlighting systemic racism, economic disparity, and specific actions taken by federal agencies like the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Key aspects of targeting black professionals include:
Successful African American professionals, despite their accomplishments, are continually reminded of their racial identity by the system of racism in America.
Dr. Norman J Clement, RPh, DDS noted that throughout life, many Black friends, colleagues, and classmates who hold degrees are “defiled, sanctioned, terminated, harassed, arrested, jailed, and imprisoned” often for the most minuscule violation or simply for performing their trained duties.
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Key details about Richard James Albert
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• The DEA’s ARCOS system identified three pharmacies within a six-mile radius in Tampa, Florida: Pronto Pharmacy (Black Owned), PMSI Pharmacy (White Owned), and OMNICARE PHARMACY (White Owned).
• Between 2006 and 2012, PMSI Pharmacy received 26,253,800 Class 2 pills and OMNICARE PHARMACY received 13,816,900 Class 2 pills, while Pronto Pharmacy received only 348,000 Class 2 pills.
• Despite receiving substantially fewer pills, Pronto Pharmacy was targeted, leading the source to ask why PMSI Pharmacy, which filled far more opioids in the same time frame and geographical location, was allowed to operate.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Diversion Investigator referenced extensively throughout the sources, particularly concerning the targeting of Pronto Pharmacy LLC, is Richard James Albert, he is also frequently referred to as DI Albert
• He entered the premises of Pronto Pharmacy LLC based on the assumption that the pharmacist and employees were illegally manufacturing Oxycodone and Hydromorphone2.
• He prepared a warrant that was “opinion based on a red flag” alleging Pronto Pharmacy engaged in manufacturing controlled substances318.
• He admitted under cross-examination on January 28, 2020, that he did not “know or understand the law(s) or how any law apply to the practice of Pharmacy”1….
the form
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When the hunt for justice overlooks the truth
• He used Google Maps to track patient travel distance and noted cash payments, which his handlers taught him to use as “relevant facts” while purposely withholding other information related to the patient-practitioner relationship8.
• His handlers, including Susan Langston and Aimee Hickerson, instructed him to redefine compounding as manufacturing when he could not find anything wrong with the pharmacy’s records 420.
• His lack of knowledge regarding pharmaceutical science and law is described as deliberate and purposefully crafted by his handlers to perform his mission against Black-owned pharmacies5.
• He was part of the coordinated raid on Pronto Pharmacy on August 29, 2019, along with other DEA agents and his handlers621.
• His actions, as directed by his handlers, were described as “laser-targeted on finally disrupting, dismantling and destroying the business of Pronto Pharmacy LLC”
The Form: A Memorandum For Record
Pronto Pharmacy also had a required “Form” (MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD) in which every patient with any type of prescription had to fill out. The Form was used along with the National Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to screen for suspicious activity of control medications.
The Form was very successful in detecting fraudulent prescriptions and groups engaged in “pharmacy shopping” for diversion purposes. People who were up to “no good” would turn around and leave when they were made aware of the Memorandum For Record “The Form” and the consequences of not being truthful.
Richard James Alpert was knowledgeable of the Pronto Pharmacy “Form” and its purpose. Yet, Mr. Alpert chose not to consider “The Form” as a component of deterring suspicious activity. The dismissal of the purpose of the Pronto Pharmacy “Form” by Mr. Alpert is further indicative of his lack of completing a thorough investigation and failure to get to the truth.
As noted from Mr. Albert’s court testimony, he, in fact, didn’t talk with any prescribing physicians or their patients. Richard James Alpert was made aware and had full knowledge that no one who came to Pronto Pharmacy had prescriptions filled without completing the form. Everyone received a consultation and paid a $25 one-time consultation fee.
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JUDGE DOWD: And is it your job, is it part of your investigation in these cases to reach out to the prescribing physicians to determine if there’s a legitimate medical reason to justify the prescription, the opioid or whatever that’s actually prescribed? Is that part of your investigation?
DI ALBERT: That wasn’t part of my investigation. No sir.
Mr.Sisco: Okay. So you talked to the patients, right?
DI Albert: Did I talk to the patients?
Mr.Sisco: Yes, sir.
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DI Albert: No, sir
Mr.Sisco: Well, wouldn’t it have been important for you to discuss with the patients whether or not they had an explanation for why they traveled to Pronto Pharmacy, for instance?
DI Albert: You could assume that, yes.
Mr.Sisco: Well, but you never attempted to speak with them; correct?
DI Albert: No
Mr.Sisco: So specifically the 11 patients that were here, you’ve spoken with them?
DI Albert: No, sir
Mr.Sisco: Okay. You had some concerns as a diversion investigator regarding the legitimacy of prescriptions that were issued to those patients; is that true?
DI Albert: Not necessarily the legitimacy or the actual prescription.
Mr.Sisco: Okay. So that wasn’t an issue that you were concerned about?
DI Albert: I’m not saying that’s not an issue. but I’m saying, not necessarily, that that was just was the main thing.
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Mr.Sisco: You didn’t talk to the patients?
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DI Albert: No, sir
Targeting of Black-Owned Healthcare Businesses:
A central theme is the alleged systematic destruction of the Black-owned pharmacy through “regulatory racism” and “predatory policing” by the DEA/DOJ. The actions taken by the DEA are characterized as race-based attacks.
A group called the North Star Pharmacy Group, composed of Black Pharmacy Owners, Black Scholars, and law enforcement, began exposing the systemic racial drug policies and a long history of racial targeting of black community leaders, black-owned pharmacy businesses, and physicians by the DEA/DOJ.
According to Richard Lawhern, Phd, the prevailing narrative of the U.S. opioid crisis has long placed the blame on clinicians overprescribing, a perspective that has profoundly shaped public health policy, law enforcement actions, and clinical practice standards.
For medical and legal professionals whose work is directly impacted by this narrative, a critical evaluation based on empirical evidence is not merely an academic exercise—it is a strategic necessity. Failure to challenge flawed assumptions can lead to detrimental patient outcomes, unjust prosecutions, and the misallocation of public health resources.
• Dependence vs. Misuse: Data shows that physiological tolerance (dependence) is much more frequent than addiction or substance abuse. Dependence is simply the result of continued dosing long enough to cause changes and potential withdrawal symptoms if stopped too fast, and is not considered an abuse or misuse of medical opioids
• Extremely Low Incidence of Iatrogenic Addiction: The risk of a patient developing a treatment-related substance use disorder or experiencing an overdose as a direct result of a medical prescription is exceptionally low. Data from a systematic review and a study of over one million surgical patients show that indications of misuse, abuse, or addiction occur in well under 1% of cases (0.27% to 0.6%). The incidence is so rare—likely less than one patient in a thousand—that an average clinician may not encounter a single case in 20 years of active practice.
According to Richard Lawhern, Phd,
The derivative law enforcement or pain state board criminalization of pain management is highly inappropriate…There is no consensus practice standard in either pain management or addiction treatment…
• The sources’ a former editor, of USA Today, Barbara Reynolds, highlighted that DEA agents have applied their “cultural indifferences” to attack and destroy African American-owned pharmacies across the country deliberately.
• One former DEA agent, Matthew Fogg, was quoted as stating he was told, “WE DON’T ENFORCE DRUG LAWS IN WHITE AREAS”.
• The attacks upon African American-owned pharmacies in Florida are described as race-based, according to Angela Green, researcher and executive director of the upcoming documentary and book ” The Hunted Healers,” based on interviews of medical providers.
So it is not widely imaginable the claim “that the intent is to destroy black people by systematically destroying those who provide healthcare services to those communities.
Examples of Discriminatory Enforcement
The North Star Group, in this section, led data analysis by the late Walter R. Clement, who provided specific examples intended to show discriminatory enforcement based on race:
THE CONCEPT OF STRATIFICATION ECONOMICS BEHIND the Targeting of AT-COST PHARMACY, Black-Owned Pharmacies by the DEA
This document from The Project North Star Group synthesizes an analysis asserting that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is engaged in the systematic, disproportionate targeting of Black-owned pharmacies.
The central argument, framed as “Practicing Pharmacy While Black,” is substantiated through a detailed case study of At Cost Pharmacy in Fort Myers, Florida, owned by Aaron Howard, PharmD. The analysis contends that DEA actions against this and other Black-owned establishments are founded on legally deficient warrants that violate the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures by failing to establish probable cause.
The DEA is accused of operating beyond its legal authority (ultra vires) by misinterpreting the “legitimate medical purpose” clause of the Controlled Substances Act and by enforcing its own non-binding “red flag” guidelines.
These guidelines are allegedly applied in a discriminatory manner, where patients at Black-owned pharmacies are labeled as “red flags,” while the same individuals at non-black-owned pharmacies are not.
This stands in stark contrast to the agency’s treatment of large pharmacy chains, which are said to pay substantial fines for significant violations without facing similar operational suspensions, a practice described as collecting “extortion fines.” The analysis concludes with a demand for the restitution of seized property and monetary damages for the affected pharmacy.
THE SYSTEMATIC TARGETING BY D.E.A. OF OAK HILL PHARMACY OAK HILL, WV
• The targeting of Black-owned facilities, such as Superior Drugs Inc. of Tampa-St Petersburg Fl, own by Victor Obi and his wife (hard working citizen whom imigrated to America from Nigeria) Pronto Pharmacy LLC., owned by Dr. Norman J. Clement RPh., DDS., At Cost Pharmacy Fort Myers, Florida, owned by Dr. Aaron Howard, PharmD, Wheatland Pharmacy Llc of Wheatland Texas, owned by pharmacist Michelle Clarke, Gulf Med Pharmacy, of Naples, Fl., owned by Dr. Rick Fertil, PharmD, Lincourt Pharmacy, Clearwater Fl., owned by Late Col. Lewis Ladson, BS., RPh, and Oak Hill Hometown Pharmacy, owned by Martin Njoku, BS., RPh.
Which has led to the D.E.A. issuing Warrants classifying all of these Pharmacies as “imminent danger to the public health or safety,” leading to raids and suspension of their licenses, even when the pharmacies claim all control medications were dispensed according to guidelines and prescriptions were legally written.
The North Star Group, in this section of research led by Jack Folson, a Pharmacist Expert graduate from the University of Michigan, noted in its that if these practices were applied equally to White-Owned Pharmacies, there would be no operating pharmacies in Florida.
• The harassment also extends to the D.E.A’s intimidation of their wholesalers where agent would direct these companies not to do business with these Black-owned businesses, demonstrated in the case of Lincourt Pharmacy in Clearwater, Florida.
THE PROBITY AND THE DEA KOURTS OF THE KANGAROOS
The Mechanism of Racial Profiling and Hierarchy
The DEA allegedly reinforces racial hierarchy by creating barriers and applying profiling methods against non-white establishments:
• The DEA’s written complaints against non-white pharmacies categorize them based on “Red Flags“.
• The DEA algorithm includes profiling metrics such as distance travel, paying cash, and excessive dosage to categorize patients as abusers and federal criminals.
• The alleged campaign against Black-owned pharmacies is compared to the foundation of the American System of Caste, as described by Isabel Wilkerson, where the degraded station of the people “justifies their degradation”.
• The enforcement efforts are seen as “predatory policing” that results in the maintenance of “generational subjectivity” and keeping people in a place of eternal servitude.
• The “War on Drugs” is bluntly characterized as a “war on people of color with ambitions”.
The North Star Group argues that this “racism wears many masks,” evolving from Jim Crow to veiled tactics designed to inhibit people from seeking treatment and preventing licensed professionals from delivering proper healthcare, thereby waging war upon their souls and denying them dignity and respect.
Thus, sadly, in America, Black medical practitioners—including physicians, dentists, and pharmacists—are viewed as “invisible men/women”.
THE STEREO TYPING AND UNDER TREATMENT OF PAIN CARE TO EASE SUFFERING
BLACK PROFESSIONAL PERCEPTION
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• Viewed as “Dangerous”: Their education, knowledge, achievements, and loyalty to addressing the needs of people make them dangerous and are viewed with disdain by those who aim to restrict their wisdom.
• Low-Hanging Fruit: They are described as “low-hanging fruit” for the DEA. While they are praised and paraded before their communities as role models, they are simultaneously trained to remain silent, offer no opinions or ideas, and “go along just to get along”.
• Reputation and Guilt: When the DEA targets healthcare practices owned by African Americans and people of color, the public perception, fueled by media, is programmed to believe they are guilty. Their professional license is diminished to that of a common drug street dealer.
• Perception of Arrogance: When a Black professional challenges the system, especially if their knowledge exceeds a preconceived standard (perhaps an “eighth-grade education”), they are often viewed as “suspicious,” “unearned,” and are detested, leading them to be undervalued, underestimated, and marginalized. Those who dare to challenge the moral standards within the system are defaulted to being seen as “arrogant and uppity”.
The sources focus heavily on how the DEA targets Black-owned pharmacies and uses enforcement tactics that rely on ethnic profiling and manufactured legal violations.
Specific Targeting by the DEA
• Profiling and Tactics: DEA guidelines are considered “tactic acts that specifically target African American pharmacists“. The DEA’s enforcement strategies have disproportionately targeted people of color, eroding civil liberties, and contributing to disparities in mass incarceration and collective trauma.
• Financial Destruction: Pharmacies owned by ethnic people of color are specifically targeted to criminalize their legal practices. The goal is often to disrupt, dismantle, and destroy the business. Specific Black-owned pharmacies cited as targets include Pronto Pharmacy LLC, At Cost Pharmacy of Fort Myers, FL, Gulf Med Pharmacy of Cape Coral, FL, and Oak Hill Pharmacy of Oak Hill, West Virginia.
• Fabricated Violations: The DEA uses arbitrary and unquantified suspicions, characterized as “red flags,” to indicate criminal conduct. These alleged red flags often include:
◦ Patients traveling long distances to fill prescriptions. Distance travel is a policy the DEA applies arbitrarily to Black-owned pharmacies, even though no such federal or state law exists.
◦ Patients paying in cash. The DEA criminalizes cash payments for pharmacy services when there is no supporting law in America
◦ Redefining by DEA of long-standing pharmaceutical methodology, like compounding, as illegal “manufacturing” to secure warrants and shut down businesses, even though the DEA diversion investigators admit they don’t understand pharmacy law or compounding procedures.
Economic Disparity and Medical Redlining: The article asserts that race is an undeniable factor in the economic injuries inflicted upon Black professionals.
• Unequal Reimbursement: Black doctors (physicians and dentists) are reimbursed differently by third-party insurance payors based solely on zip code, a practice described as “medical redlining”.
• Undermining Practice: Black owners who operate their practices in certain zip codes are humiliated and challenged to justify their diagnoses and treatment plans. They are likely to receive slower and lower payments, and are more prone to being audited, sanctioned by payors, and reviewed by State and Federal licensing authorities.
• Generational Wealth: This institutional disparity ensures that generational wealth will never be passed along within the Black community, noting that for every $10 a white person makes, Black professionals receive $1.
The DEA’s Role in Fueling the Opioid Crisis
The actions of the DEA and its Supervisor Agents, such as Susan Langston, are deemed responsible for orchestrating attacks against licensed physicians, pharmacists, and dentists, contributing to the needless death of patients treated for chronic pain and resulting in the criminalization of routine healthcare.
This systematic targeting of Black professionals is compared to historical racial constructs, where achievement and success do not lift the shroud of racial restraints imposed by the color of one’s skin. The authors assert that resisting this injustice—which treats licensed Black pharmacists as common drug dealers—is necessary, drawing parallels to the necessity of struggle outlined by Frederick Douglas.
The experience of Black professionals facing this targeting is likened to a sophisticated cage, where professional success and adherence to the law (like the successful Miles Davis being struck by police in 1959 merely for standing outside his venue) do not prevent them from being judged and attacked based on their race.
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