Governor Whitmer Must Break Michigan’s Conspiracy Of Silence In Dr. St. Claire Alleged Wife-Poisoning Case

Black Star News Editorial

Above: Gov. Whitmer. After years of scandalous coverups in Fameux alleged poisoning case time for governor to weigh in. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

If LARA found that Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire altered his wife’s medical records, why does he still have a medical license? If he falsely told police that the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), led by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointee Dr. Marlon I. Brown, had cleared him, why has that apparent contradiction not been investigated? And why have Michigan institutions remained silent?

Dr. St. Claire. Apparently protected by multiple Michigan agencies to the detriment of Haitian-born ex-wife. Photo: Family.

Perhaps the most important admission in this extraordinary case, in which Haitian-born Cassandra Fameux alleges that her former husband poisoned her for nine years with antipsychotic drugs and altered her medical records, came from Dr. St. Claire himself.

During 2023–2025 divorce proceedings, Dr. St. Claire testified that he was forced to resign from the University of Michigan on February 28, 2024, after the university investigated his then-wife Fameux’s allegations that he had accessed and altered her medical records.

That testimony demands answers. So does information documented in the notes of Linda Wenzel, Ms. Fameux’s social worker at Community Mental Health (CMH) in Lansing.

According to Wenzel’s notes, LARA contacted her in July 2024 and reported that Dr. St. Claire “did in fact access and modify” Ms. Fameux’s records and that the conduct was “criminal” in nature. Yet Dr. St. Claire apparently remains a licensed physician, according to LARA.

Ms. Wenzel’s notes state that LARA confirmed Dr. St. Claire criminally altered wife’s medical records.

How is this possible?

In a previous Black Star News article, published Sept. 12, 2025, under the headline, “Police Recommend Charges Against Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire, Former U. Michigan Health Sparrow Anesthesiologist Whose Wife Alleged ‘Illegal Drugging,’” LARA spokesperson Abby Rubley told Black Star News that information concerning LARA’s investigation of Dr. St. Claire “could be released upon LARA’s receipt of a subpoena for it” from police.

Meridian Township Police Chief Richard Grillo did not respond to a Sept. 14, 2026, email from Black Star News asking whether the department ever subpoenaed LARA for that information—or whether it intends to do so.

Chief Grillo also did not respond when asked whether the department intends to subpoena the University of Michigan for records related to Dr. St. Claire, including records connected to the nondisclosure agreement the university entered into with him following the termination of his employment.

Chief Grillo. Did Meridian Police subpoena LARA? Will it? What about the university of Michigan? Photo: Facebook

For nearly three years, Black Star News has investigated disturbing allegations by Ms. Fameux, who says her then-husband and another physician, psychiatrist Dr. Dominic Barberio, also at the University of Michigan, caused her to be treated with powerful antipsychotic medications—including Risperdal, Invega Sustenna, and Abilify—from 2014 through 2023.

University of Michigan medical records reviewed by Black Star News identify Dr. Barberio and his nurses as administering Fameux’s monthly Invega Sustenna injections from 2017 to 2021. Yet in divorce proceedings, Barberio testified that it was actually Dr. St. Claire who injected his wife in Barberio’s office about 90 percent of the time, with nurses administering the remainder. St. Claire’s name does not appear in the records as having administered a single injection.

Other Fameux records reviewed by Black Star News indicate that additional University of Michigan doctors may also have been involved in medicating Fameux. She later reported to police, with documentation, that the drugs caused serious health problems, including a brain tumor, a heart condition that required implantation of a loop monitor, diabetes, and infertility.

Ms. Fameux says she was not schizophrenic or bipolar. Several psychiatrists who subsequently evaluated her concluded that she was not schizophrenic, including CMH’s Dr. Rita Aouad, who testified on her behalf in the divorce, stating that Fameux suffers from severe PTSD as a result of an abusive marriage to Dr. St. Claire.

She alleges that while under the influence of these medications, she signed a Judgment of Separate Maintenance (JOSM) on February 20, 2018, transferring 100 percent of the marital assets—including two homes and assets worth millions of dollars—to Dr. St. Claire.

Black Star News has previously reported that the JOSM was apparently void because the court never appointed a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) to represent Fameux before she signed the agreement, as required under Michigan law.

Even more troubling, Black Star News has reported evidence indicating that Dr. St. Claire, his divorce attorney Jessica Larson, and Judge Carol N. Koenig, who presided over the divorce case, apparently fabricated evidence to create the false appearance that a GAL had, in fact, been appointed to represent Fameux.

Judge Koenig. Apparently schemed with St. Claire and his divorce lawyer Larson to fabricate evidence in order to uphold void JOSM. Photo: Ingham County Court website.

These are allegations of enormous gravity. They should have triggered aggressive scrutiny by every institution involved.

Instead, what we have witnessed is an extraordinary pattern of institutional silence and possible cover-up, including by the University of Michigan and LARA.

The University of Michigan terminated its relationship with Dr. St. Claire in February 2024. Yet the university and Dr. St. Claire entered into a nondisclosure agreement, and he received money as part of his departure package.

Why? What exactly did the university’s investigation find?

Why should the public trust the university, including University of Michigan Health Sparrow, unless it comes clean?

President Domenico Grasso was quick to announce the termination of football coach Sherrone Moore in December 2025, for having an affair with a subordinate and issued two statements. Not a word from him about Dr. St. Claire.  

President Grasso. Seems to care more about touchdowns than alleged crimes against Fameux. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

The university’s silence is especially troubling because it had previously substantiated sexual-harassment complaints against Dr. St. Claire involving co-workers and a patient between 2006 and 2011, as discussed in a previous Black Star News editorial. Reportedly, a nurse who complained about Dr. St. Claire tapping her on the rear end while in the operating room was the one who was fired—not Dr. St. Claire.

If the university concluded that a physician had improperly accessed or altered his wife’s medical records, the public deserves to know what it did with that information.

Then there is LARA.

As discussed, according to Wenzel’s contemporaneous notes, LARA told her that Dr. St. Claire had accessed and modified Ms. Fameux’s records and characterized the conduct as criminal in nature. LARA reportedly recommended that Ms. Fameux file a police report and obtain a personal protection order.

She did file a police report. Wenzel accompanied her to the Meridian Township Police Department on September 10, 2024. Detective Ian Mandernack investigated Ms. Fameux’s allegations for approximately six months. According to an April 10, 2025, police report, police recommended that Dr. St. Claire be criminally charged with domestic assault.

Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane declined to authorize charges.

There are many other troubling issues uncovered in the police report. On March 10, 2025, Detective Ian Mandernack, who led the investigation, spoke by telephone with Dr. St. Claire.

“I advised Paul as to the nature of my call,” the detective wrote in the police report, referring to Dr. St. Claire by his first name. “Paul indicated that he was familiar with the incident to which I was referring. He advised me that LARA had already concluded their investigation of the incident, and cleared him of any wrongdoing or malpractice.”

Cleared him?

That statement appears irreconcilable with Wenzel’s notes recording what LARA allegedly told her: that Dr. St. Claire “did in fact access and modify” Ms. Fameux’s records and that this was “criminal” in nature.

So which is true?

LARA can settle this question immediately by releasing or confirming the relevant findings to the extent legally permitted. Law enforcement can obtain the underlying records through appropriate legal process if necessary.

LARA’s director, Dr. Brown, did not respond to emailed questions from Black Star News seeking comment.

Dr. Brown. If LARA concluded Dr. St. Claire altered his wife’s medical record and that it was “criminal” why does he still hold a medical license? Photo: LARA website

The questions were also copied to Gov. Whitmer and State Attorney General Dana Nessel.

There is also a separate legal question that deserves examination.

Michigan law, MCL 750.479c, addresses knowingly and intentionally making certain false or misleading statements to a peace officer conducting a criminal investigation. Whether Dr. St. Claire’s statement meets every element of that statute is a question for law enforcement and prosecutors.

The apparent contradiction is sufficiently serious that authorities should investigate it.

Did LARA clear Dr. St. Claire, as he told Detective Mandernack? Did LARA determine that he accessed and modified Ms. Fameux’s medical records and characterize that conduct as criminal, as Wenzel’s notes state?

Obtain the LARA records. Obtain the University of Michigan investigation. Compare them with Dr. St. Claire’s statement to police.

Instead, there has been an apparent conspiracy of silence.

If no one else will address these multiple alleged crimes committed against Ms. Fameux, surely it is time for Gov. Whitmer to weigh in on these matters.

Note: This is the third in a series of editorials re-evaluating how Michigan institutions have handled Ms. Fameux’s allegations that her former husband, Dr. St. Claire, poisoned her for nine years and also altered her medical records at the University of Michigan. The fourth editorial will analyze the retaliatory defamation case filed by Dr. St. Claire against Black Star News and publisher Allimadi in what appears to be a desperate attempt to suppress the truth. Sign the “Justice for Cassandra” petition.