 Wenzel worked for Saturn Cycling until spring 2000, when together with his wife, Kendra Wenzel, he returned to her native Oregon, where later that year they became parents to daughter Katrine.Three former athletes, Greg Strock, Erich Kaiter and Gerrik Latta accused Wenzel, along with Chris Carmichael, Cycling USA and Angus Fraser, of treating them with illegal drugs in 1990, feeding them pills and giving them injections, such as cortisone, an immunosuppressant; Greg Strock in 2000, Erich Kaiter later in 2001 and Gerrik Latta.Strock, Kaiter and Latta reportedly made out-of-court settlements with USAC´s insurance company on behalf of USAC and René Wenzel.