Former DEA Agent Charged with Narco Terrorism for Laundering Crypto for CJNG

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Mr. Campo laundered about $750,000 for the cartel by converting cash into cryptocurrency, and agreed to launder far more — $12 million in all, according to the indictment. He also provided a payment for about 220 kilograms of cocaine on the understanding that the drugs had been imported into the United States, the indictment said.

Mr. Campo has been charged with narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The Mexican 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 said.

The indictment also charged another man, Robert Sensi, whom the indictment describes as an associate of Mr. Campo. A call to Mr. Campo’s office seeking comment was not immediately returned. Lawyers for Mr. Campo and Mr. Sensi could not immediately be identified.

According to the About page of his Global Financial Consultants company:

​Prior to the establishment of GFC, Paul Campo had a 25 year career as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration. He was appointed Deputy Chief of the Office of Financial Operations in February of 2013. In this capacity, Mr. Campo oversaw in excess of 17 million dollars in agency funding and was responsible for worldwide money laundering operations. He employed cutting-edge technologies to enhance existing programs, as well as created, developed and implemented new bi-lateral enforcement programs with the Government of Mexico and other Latin America Countries.

He represented DEA before Congress, the banking industry, money service businesses (MSBs), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Treasury, the National Security Council, as well as foreign, federal, state and local law enforcement officials. He has presented and/or moderated at several conferences for the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), FinCen, the Federal Reserve, Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Bankers, the Canadian AML Institute, the Bank Secrecy Act Advisor Group and various Department of Defense (DOD) components relative to threat finance and drug money laundering.
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He provided briefings to the Attorney General, members of Congress and staffers on several of DEA’s enforcement programs. He participated in numerous executive level briefings for high ranking foreign officials, U.S. Ambassadors and Ministry officials visiting DEA Headquarters from all around the world. He Co-Chaired the Strategic Alliance Agency/Proceeds of Crime Working Group which monitors current international money laundering crime threats and international criminally complicit MSBs.

Prior to his assignment in the Office of Financial Operations, Mr. Campo held several key positions within DEA. He was the Acting Chief of the Office of Congressional Affairs from 2004 to 2005. In that capacity, Mr. Campo was the principal advisor to then Administrator Karen Tandy on all congressional related matters. Mr. Campo was promoted and became a member of DEA’s Executive Staff as an Executive Assistant for the Office of Chief Counsel from 2005 to 2008. While on Executive Staff, Mr. Campo was involved with the implementation of the agency policies and procedures that impacted DEA’s mission. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Campo held a variety of positions, to include Acting Regional Director for the Europe and Africa regions while assigned to DEA offices in Rome and Milan, Italy. While assigned to the Embassy in Rome and then the Consulate in Milan, Mr. Campo was responsible for all enforcement actions in the region as well as serving as the Consulate General’s personal advisor to all issues concerning narcotics trafficking.
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Early on in his career, Mr. Campo spent many years as a field agent assigned to the New York Division’s multi-agency Southeast Asian Heroin Task Force, where he excelled in the disruption of violent heroin trafficking activities. In 1996, he was assigned as a back-up supervisor in the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, the agency’s oldest and most successful state and local cooperative initiative.

Source New York , GFC