Law Firm Website Goes Dark Amid Questions Over Attorney’s Alleged Role In St. Claire Divorce Court Fraud Scheme

By Milton Allimadi

Photo Above: (As of May 11, Mallory Lapka Scott & Seline website was still up. Larson, shown on the right.) 

The website of the law firm whose attorney represented Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire — the former University of Michigan anesthesiologist whom police sought to charge with poisoning his Haitian American wife over a nine-year period — has been non-functional for at least three days, and possibly longer.

(Photo: The law firm’s website has been blank for days, perhaps longer.) 

Previously, Black Star News reported on May 12, 2026, that Dr. St. Claire’s divorce attorney of more than a decade, Jessica Larson, was no longer affiliated with Mallory, Lapka, Scott & Selin, PLLC, a prominent Lansing, Michigan law firm. At the time, Larson’s photograph and biography still appeared on the firm’s website. Now, however, the website itself displays only a blank page.

Susan Mallory, Thomas L. Lapka, Keldon Scott, and Todd Selin — the firm’s partners — did not respond to an email message and phone call yesterday seeking comment regarding the status of the firm and its website.

Previously, the partners also failed to respond to two email messages seeking comment for the May 12, 2026 Black Star News story concerning Larson’s departure.

Earlier, Black Star News reported on Nov. 30, 2025, that Larson — who represented St. Claire in contentious litigation against his wife, Cassandra Fameux — had allegedly fabricated evidence involving a fictitious Guardian Ad Litem (GAL), together with St. Claire, retired Judge Janelle A. Lawless, and current Ingham County Judge Carol N. Koenig, in order to help uphold a multi-million dollar ruling favoring St. Claire.

(Dr. St. Claire. Police want him charged with poisoning his wife with antipsychotic drugs for nine years. Source: Family photo.)

Black Star News reported the alleged fraud upon the court to the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Ingham County Chief Circuit and Probate Court Judge Shauna Dunnings.

The Mallory Lapka firm also did not respond to questions from Black Star News asking whether Larson’s departure was connected to her alleged involvement in the purported evidence-fabrication scheme and, if so, whether the firm had reported the matter to law enforcement authorities.

The alleged scheme involving the fabricated existence of a Guardian Ad Litem — whose appointment was legally required in order to uphold the multi-million dollar Judgment of Separate Maintenance (JOSM) — was allegedly initiated in December 2017 by Larson, St. Claire, and Judge Lawless, when Larson allegedly suborned perjured testimony from her client during a pro confesso hearing on Dec. 20, 2017, according to court records.

(Fabrication of the GAL scheme allegedly began under Judge Lawless’s regime in 2017. Source: Ingham County Court website.)

Fameux told Meridian Township Police in Okemos, Michigan, on Sept. 10, 2024, that Dr. St. Claire, together with an alleged accomplice, psychiatrist Dr. Dominic Barberio — a University of Michigan colleague — poisoned her between 2014 and 2023 with Risperdal, Invega Sustenna, and Abilify.

Dr. St. Claire was fired by U Michigan on Feb. 28, 2024. According to court documents he executed an NDA with the university and received a severance package.

In 2015 — during the period in which Fameux alleged she was persistently disoriented due to the alleged drugging by St. Claire and Barberio — the court granted Dr. St. Claire’s motion to have his wife declared incompetent.

Under Michigan law, that determination required the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem before Fameux could legally sign an agreement such as the JOSM, which she signed on Feb. 20, 2018.

The JOSM transferred all marital assets — including millions of dollars and the couple’s two homes — to Dr. St. Claire. The agreement also gave St. Claire a significant advantage in the custody dispute involving the couple’s then three minor children by designating Dr. Barberio as the psychiatrist who would determine Fameux’s mental fitness to co-parent.

(Dr. St. Claire was fired by U Michigan Health Sparrow but Dr. Barberio is still employed there. Source: U Michigan Health Sparrow.)

In divorce court papers dated Oct. 22, 2024, Fameux attorney Timothy Young argued that his client had been drugged by Dr. St. Claire and Dr. Barberio and therefore lacked the capacity to understand the JOSM when she signed it. Judge Koenig denied the motion.

Fameux subsequently accused Koenig of racial bias in a motion seeking the judge’s recusal. Koenig denied that motion as well and later sealed it.

According to Fameux, the alleged poisoning caused severe medical complications, including a brain tumor, a heart condition that required the implantation of a loop monitor in her chest, diabetes, and infertility following surgery to stop excessive menstrual bleeding.

Court records show that the JOSM was drafted by Larson. 

On May 22, 2025, Lisa Stern of Hertz Schram — the last attorney to represent Fameux in divorce court — filed a motion asking Judge Koenig to set aside the JOSM on the grounds that no GAL had ever been appointed for Fameux.

Instead of vacating the JOSM and ordering an equitable distribution of marital assets, Judge Koenig relied on the alleged perjured Dr. St. Claire testimony suborned by Larson during the 2017 proceeding before Judge Lawless. Koenig cited that testimony in her Sept. 3, 2025 ruling denying Stern’s motion.

(Judge Koenig allegedly put finishing touches on the fraudulent scheme with her Sept. 3, 2025 ruling upholding the JOSM which lacks a GAL signature because none existed. Source: Ingham County Court website.)

Stern did not respond to questions from Black Star News asking why she did not object to the alleged fraudulent conduct by the court. It is also unclear whether Stern ever reported the matter to law enforcement authorities.

Before Stern filed her challenge to the JOSM based on the absence of a GAL, three other attorneys had represented Fameux after Dr. St. Claire filed for divorce in August 2023 — only weeks after Fameux confronted him with a video that showed him in the back seat of his vehicle with a married University of Michigan nurse. The video has been reviewed by Black Star News. 

Those attorneys were Janet Hamilton, Ben Fulger, and Timothy Young. None sought to have the JOSM vacated on the grounds that no Guardian Ad Litem had been appointed.

At some point after Judge Lawless retired and the case was transferred to Judge Koenig, Koenig purportedly “appointed” attorney Erica Terranova as a GAL for Fameux.

(Terranova may have been “appointed” by Judge Koenig as a decoy to deceive court records into showing that a GAL had been properly appointed for Fameux before she signed JOSM. Source: Baileysmithbailey.com)

However, because a GAL can only be appointed through a probate proceeding, Koenig’s action may have been legally invalid. If so, Terranova may have appeared in multiple proceedings while improperly holding herself out as a GAL.

Terranova advised Fameux to stop speaking with this reporter and to accept Dr. St. Claire’s settlement offer: a lump-sum payment of $50,000 and monthly spousal support payments of $3,800 for three years, even though the marital assets are worth several millions of dollars, Fameux said.

Chief Judge Dunnings did not respond to questions submitted by email today asking whether Koenig’s purported appointment of Terranova was intended to create the impression that a GAL had been properly appointed before Fameux signed the JOSM in 2018.

Terranova and Judge Koenig also did not respond to inquiries from Black Star News.

After investigating Fameux’s criminal allegations against Dr. St. Claire and Dr. Barberio for six months, Meridian Township Police recommended criminal domestic assault charges against Dr. St. Claire on April 10, 2025.

However, Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane declined to authorize an arrest warrant.

Fameux has long maintained that Dr. St. Claire — once a prominent University of Michigan physician — benefited from institutional favoritism and protection. Dr. Dr. St. Claire filed a defamation lawsuit against this reporter and Black Star News in July 2024. This reporter calls it “a desperate attempt to suppress the truth from being exposed.” 

Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane. Refused to sign the arrest warrant for Dr. St. Claire. Source: Ingham Prosecutor’s website.