As Defamation Trial Against Black Star News Nears, Emails With Plaintiff’s Lawyer Deleted
[Commentary] By Milton Allimadi As the defamation case brought by a Michigan anesthesiologist accused of poisoning his now ex-wife for nearly a decade heads to trial next month, I have discovered that scores of email messages exchanged with the doctor’s former divorce lawyer have been deleted. I have reported the matter to the FBI and requested that my laptop be made available for forensic examination. Hopefully, we can trace and identify whoever is behind it. Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire, 73, was fired by University of Michigan Health Sparrow on Feb. 28, 2024, after more than 30 years of employment, following a series of articles published in Black Star News concerning allegations by his Haitian immigrant wife, Cassandra Fameux, 45, that he and an alleged accomplice, his hospital colleague and psychiatrist Dr. Dominic Barberio, poisoned her with Risperdal, Invega Sustenna, and Abilify from 2014 to 2023. The university has not issued a public statement regarding Dr. St. Claire’s dismissal and instead executed a nondisclosure agreement with him, in contrast to the very public dismissal of former football coach Sherrone Moore. Dr. St. Claire’s alleged motive was to secure a Judgment of Separate Maintenance (JOSM) transferring all marital assets—millions of dollars and the couple’s two homes—to him. The agreement, signed by Ms. Fameux on Feb. 20, 2018, also named the alleged accomplice as the psychiatrist who would determine her mental fitness to co-parent their then-minor three children. In September 2024, Ms. Fameux filed a criminal complaint against Dr. St. Claire. After a six-month investigation, Meridian Township Police in Okemos, Michigan, recommended domestic criminal assault charges. However, Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane declined to bring charges. Ms. Fameux told police that Dr. Barberio falsely diagnosed her with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to facilitate the alleged poisoning. Two psychiatrists, including Dr. Rita Aouad, who testified in the couple’s divorce trial, concluded that Ms. Fameux did not have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Dr. Aouad further testified that Ms. Fameux suffers from PTSD resulting from years of an abusive marriage. Ms. Fameux also provided police with an audio recording in which Dr. Barberio is heard acknowledging she was never schizophrenic. Although hospital records state that Ms. Fameux received monthly Invega Sustenna injections from 2017 to 2021 administered by Dr. Barberio, it was actually Dr. St. Claire who personally administered the injections according to his divorce court testimony and Dr. Barberio, who said St. Claire gave 90% of the injections while the rest were by Dr. Barberio’s nurses. Ms. Fameux also told police that from 2017 to 2020 no prescriptions were written for the drugs and that Dr. Barberio retrieved them from a storage cabinet in his office. Ms. Fameux further alleged that Dr. Barberio only administered injections when Dr. St. Claire was angry with her, and that Barberio would arrive at the home and inject her as “punishment.” Dr. St. Claire maintained handwritten records of these home-visit injections. Dr. Barberio claimed he only injected Ms. Fameux once at home during Covid and denied it was for “punishment.” Ms. Fameux told police the years of poisoning caused long-term multiple health conditions, including a pituitary brain tumor, a heart condition requiring a loop monitor implant, diabetes, and infertility following surgery related to excessive bleeding during menstruation. In divorce proceedings, Dr. St. Claire testified that he was forced to resign after Ms. Fameux told the hospital he had accessed and altered her medical records. He denied altering records and stated he accessed them with her permission. During the divorce, Ms. Fameux’s attorney asked the court to set aside the Judgment of Separate Maintenance, arguing she had been drugged and did not understand what she was signing. Judge Carol N. Koenig, who presided over the case, denied the motion. In 2015, the Ingham County Probate Court found Ms. Fameux legally incapacitated following a motion by Dr. St. Claire. Under Michigan law, a Guardian ad Litem was required to be appointed before she could enter into agreements such as the JOSM. In 2025, attorney Lisa Stern filed a motion to set aside the JOSM, arguing it was void because no Guardian ad Litem had ever been appointed. Judge Koenig later falsely ruled that Ms. Fameux had the assistance of a Guardian ad Litem when signing the agreement. The ruling relied in part on testimony from a 2017 hearing presided over by Judge Janelle A. Lawless, during which Dr. St. Claire responded to a question by his lawyer Ms. Larson that he had discussed matrimonial matters with Ms. Fameux and her Guardian ad Litem, even though both he and Ms. Larson and Judge Lawless knew that no GAL had been appointed. Ms. Fameux and her attorney Robin Omer were not in court during
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[Commentary]
By Milton Allimadi
As the defamation case brought by a Michigan anesthesiologist accused of poisoning his now ex-wife for nearly a decade heads to trial next month, I have discovered that scores of email messages exchanged with the doctor’s former divorce lawyer have been deleted.
I have reported the matter to the FBI and requested that my laptop be made available for forensic examination.
Hopefully, we can trace and identify whoever is behind it.
Dr. Paul Gregory St. Claire, 73, was fired by University of Michigan Health Sparrow on Feb. 28, 2024, after more than 30 years of employment, following a series of articles published in Black Star News concerning allegations by his Haitian immigrant wife, Cassandra Fameux, 45, that he and an alleged accomplice, his hospital colleague and psychiatrist Dr. Dominic Barberio, poisoned her with Risperdal, Invega Sustenna, and Abilify from 2014 to 2023.
The university has not issued a public statement regarding Dr. St. Claire’s dismissal and instead executed a nondisclosure agreement with him, in contrast to the very public dismissal of former football coach Sherrone Moore.
Dr. St. Claire’s alleged motive was to secure a Judgment of Separate Maintenance (JOSM) transferring all marital assets—millions of dollars and the couple’s two homes—to him. The agreement, signed by Ms. Fameux on Feb. 20, 2018, also named the alleged accomplice as the psychiatrist who would determine her mental fitness to co-parent their then-minor three children.
In September 2024, Ms. Fameux filed a criminal complaint against Dr. St. Claire. After a six-month investigation, Meridian Township Police in Okemos, Michigan, recommended domestic criminal assault charges. However, Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane declined to bring charges.
Ms. Fameux told police that Dr. Barberio falsely diagnosed her with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder to facilitate the alleged poisoning. Two psychiatrists, including Dr. Rita Aouad, who testified in the couple’s divorce trial, concluded that Ms. Fameux did not have schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Dr. Aouad further testified that Ms. Fameux suffers from PTSD resulting from years of an abusive marriage. Ms. Fameux also provided police with an audio recording in which Dr. Barberio is heard acknowledging she was never schizophrenic.
Although hospital records state that Ms. Fameux received monthly Invega Sustenna injections from 2017 to 2021 administered by Dr. Barberio, it was actually Dr. St. Claire who personally administered the injections according to his divorce court testimony and Dr. Barberio, who said St. Claire gave 90% of the injections while the rest were by Dr. Barberio’s nurses.
Ms. Fameux also told police that from 2017 to 2020 no prescriptions were written for the drugs and that Dr. Barberio retrieved them from a storage cabinet in his office.
Ms. Fameux further alleged that Dr. Barberio only administered injections when Dr. St. Claire was angry with her, and that Barberio would arrive at the home and inject her as “punishment.” Dr. St. Claire maintained handwritten records of these home-visit injections. Dr. Barberio claimed he only injected Ms. Fameux once at home during Covid and denied it was for “punishment.”
Ms. Fameux told police the years of poisoning caused long-term multiple health conditions, including a pituitary brain tumor, a heart condition requiring a loop monitor implant, diabetes, and infertility following surgery related to excessive bleeding during menstruation.
In divorce proceedings, Dr. St. Claire testified that he was forced to resign after Ms. Fameux told the hospital he had accessed and altered her medical records. He denied altering records and stated he accessed them with her permission.
During the divorce, Ms. Fameux’s attorney asked the court to set aside the Judgment of Separate Maintenance, arguing she had been drugged and did not understand what she was signing. Judge Carol N. Koenig, who presided over the case, denied the motion.
In 2015, the Ingham County Probate Court found Ms. Fameux legally incapacitated following a motion by Dr. St. Claire. Under Michigan law, a Guardian ad Litem was required to be appointed before she could enter into agreements such as the JOSM.
In 2025, attorney Lisa Stern filed a motion to set aside the JOSM, arguing it was void because no Guardian ad Litem had ever been appointed.
Judge Koenig later falsely ruled that Ms. Fameux had the assistance of a Guardian ad Litem when signing the agreement. The ruling relied in part on testimony from a 2017 hearing presided over by Judge Janelle A. Lawless, during which Dr. St. Claire responded to a question by his lawyer Ms. Larson
that he had discussed matrimonial matters with Ms. Fameux and her Guardian ad Litem, even though both he and Ms. Larson and Judge Lawless knew that no GAL had been appointed.
Ms. Fameux and her attorney Robin Omer were not in court during those proceedings before Judge Lawless.
Ms. Fameux was also unaware that Omer had previously been law partner to Jane Radner, who was Dr. St. Claire’s lawyer during his 2003 divorce from his late second wife, Dr. Marcy Street, whom he also accused of mental illness.
Black Star News published an article alleging fraud upon the court involving Judge Koenig, Dr. St. Claire, Ms. Larson, and retired Judge Lawless, and reported the matter to the FBI.
On May 12, 2026, Black Star News reported that Ms. Larson had apparently been terminated by her law firm, Mallory Lapka Scott Seline in Lansing, Michigan, a four-partner firm with several associates.
Shortly thereafter, Black Star News reported on May 23, 2026, the firm reportedly shut down.
Email messages exchanged between Ms. Larson and me regarding the allegations against Dr. St. Claire were later deleted by an outside party. I have reported this matter to the FBI.
In one e-mail exchange, published in a May 3, 2024 Black Star News article, after I asked Ms. Larson if she knew that her client had been injecting Ms. Fameux with Invega Sustenna before she made her public allegations, on Jan. 12, 2024 she responded:
“We appreciate your journalistic vigor. But your queries, especially with the negative tone and unsupported, accusatory, and libelous/slanderous innuendo, are not welcome. The contact is now harassment. Additional contact with me, my client, or the firm I work with will be considered harassment. Please do not reply to this email and do not send any additional correspondence at all to me, my client or my firm.”
Dr. St. Claire filed his defamation lawsuit against Black Star News, me, and Ms. Fameux in July 2024. The trial is scheduled to begin on July 20, 2026, in Ingham County’s 30th Judicial Circuit Court before Judge Morgan Cole.
This lawsuit is nothing but a desperate attempt by Dr. St. Claire to intimidate independent media and to suppress the truth from coming out.
Editor’s Note: Visit the “Justice for Cassandra” petition campaign, which now has more than 1,000 signatures.
