CHAPTER TEN
The Tampa Cast You Never Met. The Corruption Now On the Public Record.
“What the hell were they doing in my case?
I don't know who these people are.”
Twenty-one years on, Francesco has just seen the names of the people who were in the room when his case was being built. He never met them. He never heard them speak in a Canadian court. He never had the chance to cross-examine any of them, because he was court-appointed a lawyer who has now publicly stated he has no recollection of the case. This is the cast.
These names appear on Francesco's actual extradition request packet and / or his MDFL Tampa criminal docket 8:05-cr-00263-EAK-MSS. None of them ever appeared in a Canadian court. None of their evidence was ever tested. Francesco consented to surrender without ever knowing they existed.
Assistant United States Attorney — Middle District of Florida (Tampa)
Listed as the prosecutor of record on the November 2005 US provisional arrest request transmitted via Lystra Blake (DOJ OIA) to Canada. Office address: 400 N. Tampa St, Suite 3200. Phone: (813) 274-6000. Email: [email protected]. He prosecuted the case Francesco was extradited into. Francesco was never given his name in any Canadian proceeding.
Department of Justice attorneys named on the US provisional arrest request packet, Nov 2005
Four DOJ attorneys whose names appear on the US-side request package that triggered Francesco's emergency provisional arrest in Windsor on November 30, 2005. The package described Francesco as a fugitive intending to flee. He had walked into the Windsor police station that morning asking for travel papers to the Cayman Islands. Their names never surfaced in any Canadian hearing.
Associate Director — US DOJ Office of International Affairs (OIA)
Signed the official US request for provisional arrest transmitted to Canada's DOJ International Assistance Group. The other side of the Faiyaz Amir Alibhai Form 1 §12 signature. The intergovernmental architecture of Francesco's extradition has her signature on it.
Clerk — United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
Signed the AO-442 arrest warrant under case 8:05-CR-263-T-17MSS on June 21, 2005. The instrument that justified Canada's surrender of Francesco bears her signature. The warrant was based on a grand jury indictment that the Canadian system never tested.
United States Attorney — Middle District of Florida (2002–2007)
The US Attorney whose office signed Francesco's indictment and prosecution filings. Named in docket as the official representative of the United States of America in this matter.
Tampa AUSAs named in Francesco's MDFL docket text
Four additional Tampa Assistant United States Attorneys whose names surface across Francesco's own MDFL 8:05-cr-00263 docket filings. Francesco never heard their names during his Canadian extradition proceeding.
Tampa defense counsel of record — retained by Francesco's family
Tampa criminal defense attorney whose signature /s/ Mark J. O'Brien appears on Francesco's pre-trial, trial, and sentencing motions. Francesco's family retained him for the full course of the prosecution. He later moved to be appointed under the Criminal Justice Act to continue Francesco's appeal.
Every named individual across the federal docket of USA v. Longo, role and hit count.
MDFL case 8:02-cr-00422 — presided by Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich
Same judge as Francesco's case 8:05-cr-00263.
Abreu signed a USSG § 5K1.1 cooperation agreement — sentence reduction in exchange for substantial assistance against other targets. One of those targets was Francesco. Abreu's 5K1.1 motion text and cooperation memorandum are referenced in Francesco's own sentencing memorandum.
The same judge approved Abreu's reduction and then presided over Francesco's prosecution that was partially built on Abreu's cooperation. The structural conflict speaks for itself.
December 5, 2025. United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Federal indictment unsealed. Two DEA Special Agents from the Tampa Field Division — the same office that built Francesco's case — named as defendants.
Former DEA Special Agent — Tampa Field Division
Federally indicted SDNY 2025-12-05. Boca Raton residency confirmed in indictment. Charges include money-laundering and federal corruption offences related to DEA Tampa operations during the operational window that includes Francesco's case (2003–2007).
Former DEA Special Agent — Tampa Field Division
Co-defendant on the same SDNY 2025-12-05 indictment as Sensi. Same office, same operational window. The federal government has, by indictment, conceded that the DEA Tampa Field Division of this era had corruption serious enough to warrant a cross-jurisdictional federal prosecution out of SDNY.
Sensi and Campo are not Francesco's case actors.
They are the peers of Glenn Dutton and William B. Lintz —
working from the same DEA Tampa office during the same operational window.
The SDNY federal indictment is the third-party receipt that DEA Tampa was systemically corrupt during the window Francesco was prosecuted.
According to the November 2005 US request package, three people gave US authorities information against Francesco. Two of their accounts contain plain temporal impossibilities.
Arrested May 11, 2004 · subsequently turned informant
The US package alleges Francesco paid Womack approximately $10,000 between October 2003 and May 2004 to learn MDMA manufacture. After his own arrest, Womack told authorities Francesco had contracted him to “clean out” the Lakeland residence. Womack's account is the central foundation of the conspiracy charge. He was never produced in any Canadian court.
Arrested October 16, 2003
Barranco allegedly “advised authorities” that he obtained MDMA from Francesco. Barranco was arrested on October 16, 2003 — before the alleged conspiracy window (October 2003 – May 2004) is supposed to have begun in any meaningful sense, and well before any of the alleged transactions Francesco is charged with. The chronology does not survive its own packet.
Claimed to have helped “smash glassware” at the Lakeland residence
Lewis's account was used to support the conspiracy theory of evidence destruction. Lewis was never produced in any Canadian court. Lewis's claim was used to characterize Francesco's intent without ever being cross-examined on Canadian soil.
denialbydesign.org Cloudflare analytics show 101–112 hits from the Loxahatchee Groves, Florida geographic node to Francesco's chapters. Loxahatchee Groves is not a random suburb. Look at what surrounds it.
The traffic to Francesco's chapters from this geographic node is concentrated, repeat, and deep. The apparatus is reading the chapters from the same geographic node where its own infrastructure is concentrated. The reading itself is the receipt.
These are the people who were in the room when Francesco's case was being built.
He never heard their names.
They never appeared at any Canadian extradition hearing.
He consented to surrender to a system in which these were the operational actors — while represented by a court-appointed lawyer who has now publicly stated he has no recollection of the case.
The Sensi & Campo federal indictment of December 5, 2025 — by the Southern District of New York, of two DEA Tampa peers from the same office that prosecuted Francesco — is the receipt.
The corruption is documented. The federal government conceded it by indictment. It just hadn't been publicly applied to Francesco's case until now.