He Knew Every U.S. Financial Weak Point. Prosecutors Say He Offered Them to CJNG.

An undercover DEA informant spent nearly two years recording how former Deputy Chief Paul Campo and veteran fixer Robert Sensi allegedly plotted to launder cartel millions.

A federal indictment unsealed on December 6 in the Southern District of New York has exposed a conspiracy that represents a catastrophic failure of U.S. counter-intelligence vetting. Paul Campo, the former Deputy Chief of the DEA’s Office of Financial Operations, and Robert Sensi, a career international “fixer” with a history of claiming CIA ties, have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and procure military-grade weaponry for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

If found guilty, Campo would be one of the highest-ranking DEA agents ever to have such direct corrupt connections with serious organized crime.

Over nearly two years, Campo and Sensi allegedly offered advice on smuggling routes, relocation strategies for fentanyl labs, encrypted intelligence-sharing, and access to combat-ready drones. In reality, the supposed CJNG emissary was a DEA informant, and the entire operation had been under federal surveillance from the start.

Still, the indictment paints a staggering picture: Secret briefings, covert meetings, and encrypted communications facilitated by men with decades of access to the inner workings of US law enforcement and international covert logistics.

Campo is accused of leveraging his DEA expertise to help evade financial scrutiny and airspace detection. Sensi, prosecutors say, acted as the intermediary, translator, and fixer.

This investigation traces the full arc of their relationship: the operational plan laid out in the indictment, Campo’s rise and fall inside the DEA and Sensi’s decades of shadowy logistics and criminal reinvention.