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Convicted Foreign Baby Parts Sellers Helped Obama Campaign

"The companies promoted business by offering “25 percent off” sales in the summer and the fall."

2017 (Katie J. Read, Liberty Headlines)

Andres Isaías, Luis Isaías, and Estefano Isaías admitted that they’ve been illegally selling fetal tissue for massive profit through their Planned Parenthood-affiliated businesses DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences.

The brothers will pay almost $8 million as they settled a lawsuit the Orange County, California District Attorney launched against them in October 2016.

The OCDA launched its investigation against the companies after a complaint was filed against the businesses by the Center for Medical Progress, the organization that produced the undercover video that shows Dr. Jennifer Russo, medical director for Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernadino counties, stating her efforts to harvest “intact” specimens from the abortions she performs. In the video, Russo says that Planned Parenthood works with a local biotech company called “DaVinci” to supply fetal body parts.

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Excellent find thank you! Considering all the spying Obama was doing, he must have known about the baby parts being bought and sold by his donors.

What a small world after all: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fugitive-Banker-Brothers-From-Ecuador-With-Ties-to-New-Jersey-US-Senator-Robert-Menendez-Detained-in-Miami-505911301.html

Wanted by Ecuador, 2 Brothers Make Mark in U.S. Campaigns

The tug of war over the Isaias brothers, sentenced in an embezzlement case, is part of a broader battle between Ecuador and the White House over international fugitives, including two other men the Obama administration would like to get its hands on: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor.

For close to two years, Ecuador has sheltered Mr. Assange in its embassy in London, arguing that he risks persecution and possibly the death penalty if he ultimately faces trial in the United States for revealing American secrets. Similarly, the White House fumed when Ecuador expressed an openness to granting asylum to Mr. Snowden as well.

  • Roberto’s wife; their children, daughter-in-law and nephews; and a few employees have donated at least $320,000 to American political campaigns since 2010, (written 2014)

the men sought refuge in Miami, where the family owned Republic National Bank, known for financing Cuban-American businesses. It was sold in 1999, making the brothers a fortune as the crisis exploded in Ecuador.

In 2005, Kristie A. Kenney, then the American ambassador to Ecuador, wrote a scathing cable to Washington accusing the brothers of financing a $2 million bribe to get Ecuador’s attorney general to drop the case. She acknowledged then that the government of Ecuador offered feeble documentation to back up its extradition request, but she attributed that to pressure from the Isaias family, which owned 27 radio stations, three newspapers and a sugar production company.

Some American officials tried to revoke the brothers’ visas over money-laundering accusations, she wrote in the cable, released by WikiLeaks.

The relative anonymity the family once enjoyed in the United States ended in late January when an NBC station reported that Mr. Menendez was under federal investigation for having received donations from the family and having written on its behalf to the Department of Homeland Security.

CNN Latino

Two weeks later, CNN announced the cancellation of CNN Latino, a short-lived partnership with Roberto Isaias’ son Luis that distributed Spanish-language programming in five cities, four of them on stations Mr. Isaias said he gave his son. CNN said the decision had nothing to do with the Menendez issue. Mr. Menendez’s office acknowledged sending at least five letters to the Department of Homeland Security for the brothers and other relatives with immigration problems, but described them as among thousands of such letters he has sent. His office said there was no indication that the issue was being investigated by the F.B.I., and the agency declined to comment. Mr. Menendez received $13,000 from the family, and Mr. Isaias’s wife also donated $30,000 to a senatorial campaign committee Mr. Menendez led in 2010.