Follow the Money: The DEA Insider Who Sold Out to a Cartel
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This is how you make a dent in the drug trade, not bombing boats. Former Drug Enforcement Administration, a DEA official appointed as the Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama Administration, still holds security clearance. I was indicted on Friday. Didn’t hear about this, did you?
indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Alisco New Generation Cartel, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization in February of this year. Now, if it is a foreign terrorist organization, and this DEA official, this Paul Campo, correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t that
treasonous. Wouldn’t that qualify as a treasonous act? And the punishment for treason, if I’m not mistaken, is death penalty. Just throwing this out there at this point in time. Paul Campo, who oversaw the FBI. This is why things happen. I told you, you want to go after drugs? Follow the money, babe. Okay? Follow the money.
Follow the money laundering. You remember? my God. Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. Remember the accountant in Lethe Weapon 2? And he was trying to explain to them money laundering. He’s like, okay, okay, okay, okay. And he’s explaining to Danny Glover and Mel Gibson how money laundering works the entire thing. But that was, it was pretty funny. But that’s who you get.
You want you crack down you follow the money people anyway. Yeah. He resigned this Paul Campo in 2016 ahead of Trump’s inauguration, laundered around 750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency and agreed to launder far more totaling over 12 million. His home was raided by federal agents on third nice pad.
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Whoo, got a nice house there. Yeah, in around the DC area there. Yes, you know, you got that whole Fairfax, Virginia, Bethesda, Maryland, all the power players in DC. Campa also provided a payment for around 220 kilos of cocaine on the understanding that the drugs had been imported into the US. 25 years at the DEA.
He sold himself to the cartel as someone who could give inside information on DEA operations, help them move drug money, help them avoid detection and even advise on narcotics logistics. In late twenty twenty four, along with his friend Robert Sensi, they began conspiring with an undercover government source they believe was with the cartel.
They discussed using drones packed with C4 explosives for a cartel operation. When the undercover agent asked what they could do with the drones, Campology said, we put explosives and we just send it over. Adding that six kilos of C4 would be enough to blow up the whole blanking and then the sentence trails off.
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Campos alleged that he told the undercover source that because of his past work inside the DEA’s intelligence and financial units, he still had connections within the agency and could advise the cartel on how to evade detection. He portrayed himself as someone who understood DEA investigative patterns, eternal targeting systems, and the vulnerabilities of US financial controls. Again, I can go on.
the entire story and you can look it up as well. It’s unfortunate it’s not getting much press. But just as we complain about corruption, corruption in Mexico with the tie ins between, you know, the cartels and government and the police, we have our same issues as well here in the United States. And again, one of the things that add is not to mention the fact that again,
It’s the laundering part that these people in power really like. When you got that amount of money.
Hey, let’s put up an apartment building. Let’s gentrify this. Let’s do it. Money’s gotta go somewhere, people. The money has to make its way into the system somewhere. Okay? It’s not like people will be walking around with duffel bags full of cash. Again, cash loses value in of itself. Need to buy assets, need to buy property, need to buy things.
And that’s what they do. Not even just we’ve done through a legal fashion. You talk about it in the same sense where you’ve got commodities or these people that make a fortune in oil and gas and all these places from around the world. We’re actually having this conversation this past weekend, Miami right now. Miami’s booming. Okay. As far as residences are concerned, not to mention the fact the UK raise taxes, had tax laws going back.
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to the 18th century that they’re changing, people are leaving the UK. Millionaire after millionaire is leaving. Miami, they’ve got new residences going. If they just broke ground on a residence, Bentley residence in Miami, on the water, you actually pull your car up into the elevator and it takes the car to your floor.
where you have like a parking garage there on your floor. Porsche has already got a similar building in town and it’s like the biggest building, the biggest foundation they’ve ever poured in the entire state of Florida. The money has to be parked there.
Now you’re a member of a cartel, you’re gonna have to find a way to, well you know what? You can put it into an apartment, put it into a high-rise. Take a look at these high-rises in New York City that were put up on Park Avenue. It’s a complete miscalculation by Michael Bloomberg, thought it was gonna revitalize and make the neighborhood hoppin’. Oh my God, it’s gonna be great, we’re gonna have all these rich people movin’ in here. They’re never there!
They’re never there. You take a look at this tall, know, sky rises, residential things on Park Am with brand new ones that are up there, empty! No lights, no nothing, everybody’s gone. Can’t these people, they have money to burn. What am I gonna do? What am gonna do, just keep in cash? No, buy an apartment, park out, maybe I’ll go there for a few days because they can. This is the same concept, wandering the money and…
United States is a good place to launder money. And I’m going to say this till I’m blue in the face. Okay. This is why the drug thing’s never going to go away. It’s never going to go away. There’s too many people, too many people that are making money investing, investing drug money. Yeah, I wish, you know, I wish I could be more positive on this, but I
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I just don’t see it. People that way too many people have an ethical bypass at birth and will look the other way or will find ways of justifying using this money in some way, shape, matter, or form. Well, you know, at least I’m taking this bad money and making the community better. That’s, that’s the way it works. Folks, watchdog on wallstreet.com.
