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Dr. St. Claire, shown above, has sued me and Black Star News even though he's now admitted to injecting his wife with antipsychotic drugs for a disease she didn't have.

I’m the co-founding publisher of Black Star News, a Pan-African and investigative news media company that fights justice and speaks truth to power.

We've been publishing since 1997.

We've broken major news stories through the years, including one involving a scandal at Morgan Stanley when the investment bank entrapped a young Black banker named Christian Curry—we revealed that Morgan Stanley had paid an informant $10,000 to set him up to pre-empt and derail a racial and sexual-orientation lawsuit he intended to file.

Black Star News was credited by The Wall Street Journal for our coverage and I was interviewed on CNN for our scoop. Other media outlets quoted me for their stories. Recently, Black Star News has been exposing judgesaccused of blatantly biased rulings in the New York and federal courts.

Our current major story involves allegations by Ms. Cassandra Fameux, a Haitian immigrant, that her husband, Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire, together with alleged accomplice, Dr. Dominic Barberio—Ms. Fameux’s former psychiatrist—illegally injected her with unprescribed Invega Sustenna, an antipsychotic medicine for years even though she didn’t have schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which is what the drug is supposed to treat.

Dr. Barberio later admitted to Ms. Fameux in a recorded conversation that she didn’t have schizophrenia.

Ms. Fameux also claimed that sometimes, when Dr. St. Claire was upset at her, he’d phone Dr. Barberio who came over to their marital home to inject her with Invega Sustenna as “punishment.” She claimed one such punishment was when she failed to cook for Dr. St. Claire’s older two daughters from his late second wife, Dr. Marcy Street. Dr. St. Claire kept hand-written notes documenting the home visits.

She said the Invega Sustenna injections were so debilitative that she wasn’t able to speak. She claimed Dr. Barberio prescribed another drug, Benztropine, just so she could be able to speak. Ms. Fameux also reported her allegations of the alleged illegal drugging in an October 30, 2023 affidavit to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mike Totten.

Ms. Fameux claimed Dr. St. Claire’s motive was to compromise her mental capabilities and coerce her into signing a separate maintenance agreement in 2018 that transferred about 90% of marital assets to his control and have him advantage over custody of their three children who were all minors at the time, by appointing Dr. Barberio as the psychiatrist who would determine Ms. Fameux’s mental fitness for co-parenting. Ms. Fameux was being injected with Invega Sustenna by Dr. St. Claire and Dr. Barberio at the time she signed the agreement.

In reading the agreement and court documents from Dr. St. Claire 2003 divorce from Dr. Marcy Street, his second wife, I discovered that the lawyer who represented Ms. Fameux during the signing of the separate maintenance agreement, Robin Omer, had been the law partner of Jane Radner, who was Dr. St. Claire’s lawyer during his 2003 divorce. Ms. Fameux is Dr. St. Claire’s third wife. The first wife reportedly went to visit her family in Europe and never returned.

I also discovered that Melissa Leckie, the guardian ad litem appointed by the Ingham County 30th Judicial Circuit Court in Lansing, Michigan, never signed the signature page were all the parties signatures appear.

Also as a result of the alleged “illegal” injections, Ms. Fameux ended up being hospitalized multiple times in St. Lawrence Hospital, which is Sparrow Hospital’s mental health hospital, she said. She also developed a brain tumor, diabetes, and a heart condition—she had a loop monitor inserted into her chest in March 2023, she said. She needed a medical procedure that rendered her infertile, she alleged.

There’s copious documentation to support Ms. Fameux’s allegations.

When I first started publishing articles about Ms. Fameux’s allegations, Dr. St. Claire, through his lawyer Jessica Larson, denied them.

After I published the fourth article about Dr. St. Claire in January 2024, he was terminated on February 28, 2024 from what’s now University of Michigan Health-Sparrow (which acquired Sparrow Hospital in 2023).

Judge Carol N. Koenig, who's presiding over the couple's divorce case in Ingham County 30th Judicial District, in Lansing Michigan, has denied Ms. Fameux’s motion to set aside the postnuptial agreement.

She's treating the matter like ordinary divorce even after Dr. St. Claire has now admitted to injecting Ms. Fameux, for a disease she doesn't have, with unprescribed Invega Sustenna.

Dr. St. Claire ultimately filed a defamation lawsuit against me as I explain in this linked editorial /commentary. I was served electronically by his lawyer—another lawyer, Chris Newberg—on January 2, 2025 and I have until January 30, 2025 to respond.

Yet, ironically, even though he’d denied that he injected Ms. Fameux with Invega Sustenna, Dr. St. Claire has now admitted —at least three times—including during a December 11, 2024 court testimony before Judge Carol N. Koenig, in the couple’s ongoing divorce, that he did inject his wife. He claims he did it because she “asked” him to do it because it “wouldn’t hurt” as much when he did it (not withstanding the fact that his alleged collaborator has said Ms. Fameux wasn’t schizophrenic). Dr. St. Claire also admitted to injecting his wife when he was deposed by Ms. Fameux’s divorce lawyer Timothy Young, on October 2, 2024, and; he admitted to injecting her in his written response, dated April 11, 2024, to interrogatory questions by Benjamin Fulger, Ms. Fameux’s previous divorce attorney.

It turns out that Dr. St. Claire had lied to me in 2023 through his divorce lawyer, Ms. Larson--via e-mail message--when he’d denied that he injected Ms. Fameux.

In his defamation lawsuit, Dr. St. Claire also claims I falsely reported that he’s being investigated by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Authority (LARA). The agency has confirmed to me, via e-mail message, on three occasions, that it is investigation Ms. Fameux allegations against Dr. St. Claire.

The Meridian Township Police Department also confirmed to me via e-mail message, including on January 7, 2025, that it is investigating Ms. Fameux’s allegations against Dr. S. Claire. Ms. Fameux gave the Meridian police the recording where Dr. Barberio said she wasn’t schizophrenic, on September 10, 2024, and additional evidence later. She’s also forwarded the complaint to the Detroit Bureau of the FBI and to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Ms. Fameux has already stated that my reporting “saved” her life.

Dr. St. Claire is a multi-millionaire. He’s filed this frivolous lawsuit to try and suppress and silence the truth from coming out. He’s seeking $500,000 and demanding that all the articles and video commentaries I’ve made be removed in an attempt to block my journalism.

He’s using his financial advantage to try and destroy independent investigative journalism.

The purpose of this GoFundMe is to raise funds so I can hire a lawyer licensed to practice in Michigan to defend me and Black Star News against Dr. St. Claire’s malicious lawsuit.