Charise Valentine, MD, 69, of Oak Park, MI practiced PM&R as well as family medicine with 44 years experience. But on April 25, 2025 she was convicted in federal court of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute prescription opioids and 10 counts of illegal distribution of oxycodone and oxymorphone.

Let me take you down the path of how a targeted physician gets convicted.  First, how do they get targeted?  Any of the following:

1. Money and possessions to confiscate.
2. Competition to a hospital system
3. Treats the “expendable” population—government insured, elderly, disabled, poor.
4. An easy case that the US Attorney’s office can earn their salaries without much work.

Boards of Medicine

The next step is to leave a paper trail.  Boards of Medicine are supposed to be peers interested in the welfare of the population.  But instead, they are government-picked for political purposes of doing to doctors what the government wants. So the targeted physician is brought before the BOM.

Dr. Valentine was interviewed on March 16 and March 23, 2018 by a BOM investigator. The entire product of the interview and review can be seen HERE.  A summary shows that Dr. Valentine provided the following information during the interview:

1. Starting March, 2017, she practices medicine for about four hours a day, two or three days a week at Orthopedic Medical Building, Inc., a pain management clinic in Oak Park, Michigan, treating ten to twelve patients a day. She has other practices at other locations, but this clinic is where she almost exclusively prescribes oxycodone and oxymorphone.
2. For the patients she prescribed oxymorphone 40 mg, it was an MME daily dose of 240, but the patient exam indicated a necessity for that dose, with a secondary opinion in the medical records from an orthopedic provider.
3. She almost exclusively prescribes oxycodone and oxymorphone because patients come to her on these medications.
4. She tells patients the goal is to lower the amount of prescribed opioids and get patients off opioids. She recommends non-opioid treatments to patients.
5. She refers pain patients to orthopedic doctors and physical therapy. If patients do not follow up, they are discharged.
6. MAPS reports are run and urine drug screens are done every time a patient is treated. She will not prescribe to patients who have illicit drugs on urine drug screen results.
7. She attempts to get patients’ previous medical records and, if she does, she reviews them prior to treating patients.
8. She documents plans and goals in patient charts and documents controlled substances prescribed by other providers.

Then the BOM creates a case against the doctor. In Dr. Valentine’s case, a BOM expert examined only 8 of her patient records, showing that they weren’t really interested in her practice methods, but in simply creating a case against her. His evaluation stated that

“the absolute number of oxycodone 30 mg prescriptions is difficult to explain in the context of legitimate medical practices.”

The record shows that she was targeted based on an algorithm showing she was a high prescriber in Michigan:

And so, based on their plan and using the report of the expert, the BOM charged her with

1. Negligent delegation or supervision of employees or practice that impairs the ability to safely engage in the practice of medicine.
2. Conduct not conforming to minimal standards of practice.
3. Prescribing for other than lawful diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

They suspended her license in March, 2019.

The Feds

Oh Wow!  Guess what door that opens up?  The report goes to the feds and the raid is scheduled.  So, bottom line for any doctors out there reading this, if the Board of Medicine has reprimanded you in these terms, you are on the list to be attacked.

So then the next step is to raid the office. There is no media report of the raid on Dr. Valentine’s office. But the US Attorney’s office always posts a report on the charges against the doctor, in order to sway public opinion against the doctor.  In Dr. Valentine’s case, here is the header for one newspaper article:

Based on the US Attorney’s press release, the media publishes inflammatory statements like:

“The federal government has busted a $20-million opioid ring in metro Detroit, allegedly run by two doctors who prosecutors say wrote thousands of prescriptions for highly addictive painkillers knowing they would be sold on the street to addicts.

But the FBI was on to them.”

Then, they charge everyone in the clinic in order to force some of them to commit perjury and testify against the doctor in order to get a conviction. Today, since the Enron/Richard Andersen fiasco in 2001, the DOJ has the prerogative to do whatever is necessary to gain a conviction, even against innocent people, and there are no repercussions.  This has got to stop, and the people doing this must be held responsible. This is the mission of Doctorsofcourage.org.

So in Dr. Valentine’s case, the indictment charged five people with conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs: the two doctors, the owner of the clinic, a supposed patient recruiter and a clinic employee, but which is the recruiter and which is the employee, or both were employees, cannot be determined because the US Attorney’s office couldn’t get the information printed right. Different reports made different statements. But in the conviction of a doctor, we have found out that none of that matters.  The doctor has already been hung. The rest is just a formality.

Charged in the indictment were:

• Iris Winchester, the clinic owner.
• Dr. Michele Ritter, independent contractor physician
• Dr. Charise Valentine, independent contractor physician
• Joyce Robinson, clinic employee or patient recruiter
• Kristina Brown, clinic employee or patient recruiter

The clinic owner was charged with accepting only cash from the patients and charging not based on the service provided, but on the quantity, type and dosage of prescription opioids that the patient received. This charge would be totally ridiculous, and is purely USA propaganda to taint the jury pool. Office visits are standard, based on time spent and the complexity of the visit. Naturally a high level of pain management is more complex than a headache, and would be rated at a higher level visit.  The government can get you either way—charge more or charge less—they will charge you with fraud. You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

There was also mention in the media that Winchester, the clinic owner, and her employee, Brown, who in the newspaper was listed as a “patient recruiter” not a clinic employee, were also charged for creating fraudulent medical records for the supposed “patients.” But the truth is, if there is a record, then the patient was a patient. The records weren’t fraudulent.

Another clinic employee, Joyce Robinson was also described by the press as a patient recruiter, who would get the prescriptions filled and sell the drugs herself on the street. Now it is quite possible that an employee of a clinic is dirty. But the doctors don’t know that. What this shows, though, is that the US Attorney’s office couldn’t get their lies straight.  In different newspapers, the roles of Brown and Robinson were switched.

All five women were charged with aiding and abetting the unlawful distribution of controlled substances.  According to the DOJ press release, Winchester, Ritter, Robinson and Brown all pleaded guilty to the charges.  But there is no record of these pleas in the media and nothing shows as to a punishment.  This is the last trick the USA uses—get people to plea under the threat of going to prison, and then use their perjury against the one doctor willing to stand up for her innocence.

The real criminals in this attack are US Attorneys Julie A. Beck and Matthew Schneider, Assistant US Attorneys Andrew J. Lievense and Wayne F. Pratt, FBI agent Cheyvorea Gibson and Timothy R. Slater, and HHS-OIG Agent Mario Pinto.  The DOJ press release admits that The Eastern District of Michigan Opioid Fraud Abuse and Detection Unit uses data to target doctors.