FBI Raids Home of High-Ranking DEA Official Under Obama, Charges Him with Conspiring to Launder Millions of Dollars For Mexican Drug Cartel

The FBI on Friday morning raided the home of a high-ranking DEA official under Barack Obama and charged him for conspiring to launder millions of dollars for a Mexican drug cartel.

The Feds charged former DEA Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations Paul Campo and friend Robert Sensi for conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Paul Campo and Robert Sensi were charged with narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution, and money laundering charges. Campo and Sensi were arrested on Thursday afternoon in New York, according to the DOJ.

Campo and Sensi agreed to launder $12 million and participate in narcotics trafficking for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a/k/a Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion or CJNG.

PAUL CAMPO worked for the DEA for approximately 25 years, first as a Special Agent in New York and eventually rising to become a high-level DEA official, specifically the Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations. CAMPO retired from DEA in or about January 2016.

In late 2024, ROBERT SENSI began meeting with a confidential source working at the direction of law enforcement (“CS-1”), who was posing as a member of CJNG. SENSI told CS-1 that he had a friend who used to be in charge of DEA’s financial operations who could assist CJNG by laundering narcotics proceeds and providing CS-1 with sensitive DEA information about sources and investigations.

After these initial meetings, CAMPO and SENSI together met with CS-1 on several occasions. During these conversations, CAMPO and SENSI agreed to launder money for CS‑1 by, among other things, converting cash into cryptocurrency and making investments in real estate. CAMPO and SENSI further advised CS-1 about fentanyl production and explored procuring commercial drones and military-grade weapons and equipment for CJNG, including AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, M4 carbines, M16 rifles, grenade launchers, and rocket-propelled grenades. As part of these discussions, CAMPO and SENSI often boasted about and relied heavily on CAMPO’s prior federal law enforcement experience and expertise regarding financial investigations and drug cartels.

Regarding the drones, in one meeting, CS‑1 explained to CAMPO, “what we do with the drones, we put explosives and we just send it over there, boom”; in another conversation, CS‑1 asked SENSI how much C-4 explosive the drones could carry, to which SENSI responded, in sum and substance, approximately six kilograms, which is enough to “blow up the whole f—— . . . I don’t want to say.”

As part of the scheme, CAMPO and SENSI agreed to launder approximately $12,000,000 of CJNG narcotics proceeds; laundered approximately $750,000 by converting cash into cryptocurrency; and provided a payment for approximately 220 kilograms of cocaine on the understanding that the payment would trigger the distribution and sale of the narcotics worth approximately $5,000,000, for which CAMPO and SENSI would (i) receive directly a portion of the narcotics proceeds as profit; and (ii) receive a further commission upon the laundering of the balance of the narcotics proceeds.

“As alleged, Paul Campo and Robert Sensi conspired to assist CJNG, one of the most notorious Mexican cartels that is responsible for countless deaths through violence and drug trafficking in the United States and Mexico,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton.

“As part of that support, the defendants laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars they believed to be CJNG drug proceeds, agreed to launder millions more, and even agreed to use their financial expertise to facilitate cocaine trafficking right here in New York City,” Clayton said.

“By participating in this scheme, Campo betrayed the mission he was entrusted with pursuing for his 25-year career with the DEA. CJNG is a violent and corrupting criminal enterprise that New Yorkers want broken. I commend the extraordinary efforts of the DEA in aggressively pursuing CJNG and those who support their deadly and corrupt efforts, no matter who they may be,” Clayton said.

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Former DEA official’s alleged co-conspirator for laundering cartel money is infamous former CIA asset

. . .Public records further reveal that Mr. Sensi, who was noted to be 75-years-old and from Boca Raton, Florida, is the infamous former CIA asset Robert Mario Sensi, who was born on November 22, 1950 and unsuccessfully sued Penguin Group for defamation in January 2008 over their publication of Larry J. Kolb’s book “America at Night.”

The news follows widespread reporting of the 29-year-old former CIA asset Rahmanullah Lakanwal being the primary suspect in the shooting of two national guard members in Washington, D.C. late last month.

According to the indictment, Sensi told a confidential source for the DEA, who posed as a member of the CJNG, that he could help procure commercial drones capable of carrying six kilograms of C-4 explosives, which were enough to “blow up the whole fucking…I don’t want to say.”

This same Robert Mario Sensi was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing $2.5 million from Kuwait Airways by U.S. District Judge George H. Revercomb on July 1, 1988, as reported at the time by The Washington Post, including with an age compatible with the indictment’s description of him as 75 years old. “The federal government has said that Sensi had a ‘relationship’ with the CIA from late 1983 until the time of his arrest,” reported The Post, adding that “Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore A. Shmanda, who prosecuted Sensi, said the charges against Sensi were unrelated to his CIA activities.”

Roughly thirty minutes after publication of this article, The Associated Press indirectly referenced the above prison sentence, stating that “Sensi was convicted in the late 1980s and early 1990s of mail fraud, defrauding the government and stealing $2.5 million, said the prosecutor, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Varun] Gumaste”. The prosecutor was said to have further claimed Sensi “was engaged in a scheme to procure military-grade helicopters for a Middle East country,” reported the AP, which did not reference The Post’s previous reporting on Mr. Sensi’s role with the CIA.

Public records further show that a Robert Mario Sensi from Boca Raton, Florida filed for bankruptcy in the state in 2023, while Florida public records for the consulting firm Spacetao LLC list his full name and share a registered address with that of Mr. Sensi’s Global Asset Tracking Corp, which is affiliated with his public LinkedIn profile.

Mr. Sensi’s suit against Penguin for the publication of “America at Night” — in which he was a major subject — alleged that Kolb, the son of former senior CIA official, had committed a felony by publishing a short biography of Sensi which revealed his past undercover work in the CIA. “The publishing of Robert Sensi’s biographical information that Kolb claims [CIA co-founder] Miles Copeland gave him is a felony act,” claimed Sensi’s complaint, adding that “Kolb claims he knows for certain that Sensi is or was a CIA agent, and knowingly published Sensi’s bio on pages 25 and 26 of [‘America at Night’].”

Mr. Sensi’s claim that Kolb committed a felony by publishing his CIA background is likely a reference to the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was passed in response to former CIA officer Philip Agee naming myriad station chiefs around the world through the magazine CovertAction Information Bulletin.

Mr. Sensi was claimed in the biography allegedly provided by Miles Copeland to have been a “fixer, adept at solving problems with INS, customs, [and] local police,” referring to the defunct U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) which preceded the post-9/11 formation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The portion of the allegedly felonious biography of Robert Sensi printed in “America at Night” is included here in full:

“Robert Mario Sensi. Born November 22, 1950, in Blue Island, Illinois. Parents, Stephen and Frances Sensi. Two brothers, Ulisse and Edgar; no sister. K-7th grade, St. Joaquin School, Chicago. Grades 8-11, schools in Detroit, New York, and Rome. In Rome studied opera and Italian, while living with his grandparents. By age 17, had forsaken a future as an opera singer and was back in Illinois. 1968, graduated from New Trier High School, Northfield, Illinois. Attended Fordham University in Chicago, obtaining Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Loyola 1970, just two years after high school.

Sensi’s first job after college was as a repo man for CIT Financial Corp. in Chicago. Within months, moved on to positions as tour guide and incentive sales director for Travel Headquarters, a Chicago travel agency. 1973, left to work in Chicago sales office of Air France. Within a year was assistant district manager. 1976, moved to Gulf Air, opening Gulf’s Chicago office with title Midwest Sales Manager. Developed reputation among diplomats and other Arab VIPs as the guy who could get things done for them in Chicago—a fixer, adept at solving problems with INS, customs, local police, just the guy to arrange theater tickets and private shopping tours for wives on a moment’s notice, or to discreetly procure prostitutes or about anything else for their husbands once the wives were out on the town.

1977, left Gulf Air and took job in Washington office of Kuwait Air ways. There, reported directly to Kuwaiti ambassador, and began performing services not only for the airline’s VIP travelers but also for the ambassador and visiting members of the Kuwaiti royal family. Excelled in obtaining visas, residency, prestigious university enrollments, medical treatment, and other dispensations for prominent Kuwaitis and their friends. Also excelled in procuring prostitutes, covering up arrest records, bribing professors to improve grades and doctors to amend records of embarrassing diagnoses. Proved so adept at extraordinary services that he was soon given expanded responsibilities and control of a multi-million-dollar Kuwait Airways slush fund to cover his operating expenses.

Also in 1977, Sensi met and befriended then relatively unknown frequent flyer Yasir Arafat, PLO Chairman. Arranged Arafat’s first U.S. media interviews. By then was fluent in Italian, French, Spanish, English, learning Arabic and Farsi. With these special talents and high-level access to prominent Arabs, Sensi was talentspotted and recruited by CIA. He has ready access to DCI Casey and is a regular visitor to White House. Guards there reportedly wave Sensi through on sight, without requiring credentials. He travels frequently to Europe, the Mideast, West Africa, Latin America in fundraising role as Chairman, Ambassador’s Club, Republicans Abroad division of RNC.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and Mr. Sensi’s son Stefano declined requests for comment.

Ya don't say!?

Here's some more of the same from 0bongo's watch.

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Let's call Fast and Furious what it is. State-sponsored terrorism.

On this side of the border it's violations of the RICO Act. In Mexico and Honduras it's state-sponsored terrorism.

What else would you call heavily arming international criminal syndicates within a foreign country wherein that country is in a death struggle with those syndicates?

Especially when it goes beyond thousands of assault rifles to include grenades, RPGs, shoulder fired rockets, anti-aircraft guns, night vision equipment, body armor and special deals to bring their drugs onto our soil with legal impunity?

Not to mention that the rip crew that killed BP Agent Brian Terry was there with DEA and FBI assistance and approval to attack and kill a rival cartel's smuggling crew.

Let's not leave out the DEA laundering millions of dollars for the drug cartels by setting up bank accounts for them that they otherwise couldn't do.

It's organized, it is spread through every Federal LEA and it violates numerous domestic laws and numerous statutes and treaties that deal with foreign nations. Yet none of it has been officially sanctioned. It's the FedGov acting like mafiosa.

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0bama, Holder and Hillary Clinton are all deeply involved in this and it is state-sponsored terrorism. These criminal thugs are dragging our country down to the level of Tehran and Pyongyang.

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