Good day all. For the last few months, the Trump Administration has been using the Drug Cartel’s fast boats for target practice. While most of America is just fine with blowing the Cocaine boats out of the water, the Democrats and a couple RINO’s aren’t to happy about it. Now yet another development has occurred that is proving President Trump’s point regarding the Drug Cartels and classifying them as terrorists.
A former Drug Enforcement Agency official is being charged with attempting to help the Mexican drug cartels launder money. Here are the details from the New York Post:
A former high-level Drug Enforcement Administration official allegedly believed he was helping a Mexican cartel spread cocaine in the US and offered to launder millions of dollars for the notorious group, federal prosecutors said Friday.
Paul Campo, who rose through the ranks to eventually become the agency’s deputy chief of the Office for Financial Operations, and his alleged accomplice, Robert Sensi, were duped by a “confidential source” posing as a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), paving the way for their arrests Thursday, the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office said.
Now this is interesting. There are generally two ways to attract the attention of Federal Law Enforcement. Do something that is illegal, (Or make it known you’re willing to), or be set up in an entrapment scheme by said Federal Authorities. The latter happens a lot more then you would like and blows up in the faces of the Feds, generally very spectacularly. I suspect that this was more along the lines of the first scenario.
Campo and Sensi started working with the undercover, who was being guided by law enforcement, around late 2024, according to federal prosecutors.
Sensi, of Florida, had promised the clandestine source that Campo, of Virginia, would be valuable to CJNG, a designated terror group by the US, because he had sensitive DEA intel about sources and probes, according to the feds.
I did a little digging and Campo retired from the DEA back in 2016. I wonder what information he had was still useful almost 10 years later?
Campo, 61, and Sensi, 75, allegedly offered to launder up to $12 million of what they thought were CJNG narcotics proceeds and did launder $750,000 that was converted from cash into cryptocurrency, but ended up only flowing to the US government, prosecutors alleged.
They also paid for about 200 kilograms of cocaine, with the understanding it would be sold for $5 million as part of drug sales, including in New York City, with Campo and Sensi getting a cut of the profits, law enforcement alleged.
Well, up until that moment, I was prepared to give these two idiots the benefit of the doubt. Now? I hope they enjoy spending their golden years in a federal supermax.
Campo and Sensi were hit with conspiring to commit narcoterrorism, conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute, conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiring to provide material support to the cartel, prosecutors said.
The one charge I question is the narcoterrorism one. Generally, terrorism involves violence, (Which the Cartels will do in abundance), involving political goals. (Again, the Cartels are involving themselves in political matters) These two idiots look like they were only interested in the money. Still, dropping that one charge still gets them a gazillion years in prison.
Both defendants pleaded not guilty and were detained following the hearing Friday.
I would expect no less. I doubt that they have any chance of acquittal, however admitting to everything ends any chance of staying out of jail. I don’t doubt the prosecutors will offer a plea deal. I doubt these two will take it since any such deal means many years in prison, which would be a life sentence. They might as well go down to crushing defeat and conviction fighting tooth and nail.
“By participating in this scheme, Campo betrayed the mission he was entrusted with pursuing for his 25-year career with the DEA,” US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton in a statement.
The two men could face a maximum of life in prison if found guilty on the narcoterrorism charge.
And that is the one charge I would question. Still, at least for Campos, any time in prison is a life sentence and considering he’s former DEA, that probably means a few months at best before someone sticks a shiv into him. In any case, this arrest should be thrown right into the faces of all the cretin in congress who think using drug running fast boats for target practices is wrong. The amount of money the Cartels can throw will tempt almost anyone.
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