Two wealthy Ecuadorian brothers who were principals in
DaVinci Biosciences and DV Biologics, the California companies fined and
ordered to shut down for illegally trafficking world-wide in aborted baby parts
it obtained from Planned Parenthood, were arrested by ICE on February 13, 2019.
U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Roberto and William Isaías on
Feb. 13. ICE representative Nestor Yglesias said the brothers were
“unlawfully present” in the U.S., and have been “transferred to ICE’s
Enforcement and Removal Operations” for deportation proceedings following their
arrest. Yglesias added the pair is “in agency custody pending removal
proceedings.”
The arrest of Roberto and
William Isaias was gratifying to Operation Rescue, which published an investigative
research report on October 27, 2016 – just days
before the Presidential Election that put Donald J. Trump in office – that
detailed their crimes in Ecuador, dubious dealings with the Obama
administration, their business with Planned Parenthood and the aborted baby
body parts trade.
“We understood that this family
was in the U.S. under suspicious circumstances, and that they had committed
crimes in Ecuador and Southern California,” said Operation Rescue President
Troy Newman. “We had hoped that one day they would return to Ecuador so
that justice could be done, but their arrests still took us by surprise.”
In 2012, Roberto and William
Isaias were sentenced in
abstentia to
eight years in prison for running their Ecuadorian bank into the ground then
presenting false balance sheets to profit from bailout funds, wiping out the
life savings of thousands of families. Ecuador says the Isaias family
cost the impoverished country a total of $661.5
million.
The Isaias family began dumping
large amounts of campaign contributions into American political campaigns,
including $90,000 to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. As a result,
after reaching out to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for asylum, the
Isaias’ were granted expedited immigration into the U.S. Clinton’s State
Department then rebuffed attempts by Ecuador to extradite them to face justice.
Once in America, the Isaias
family owned and operated DaVinci Biosciences and DV Biologics, companies that
contracted exclusively with Planned Parenthood of Orange County to receive aborted
baby tissues and organs, which they trafficked overseas.
Roberto and William Isaias’
nephew, Estafano Isaias, Jr., who was involved in profit-taking from the two
biotech companies, also owned a business that sold pornography online.
After the release of the Center
for Medical Progress’ undercover video exposés in 2015, Orange County District
Attorney Tony Rackauckas sued
the companies for their illegal body parts
trade, and in 2017 reached a settlement agreement that fined them $7.8 million,
and ordered their businesses to close.
“We have mentioned the Isaias
brothers repeatedly in articles that we have published over the past couple of
years, including the corruption in the Obama Administration, which allowed them
to come to our country where they committed further crimes,” said Newman.
“We hoped that someone would take notice.”
Just last month, Operation Rescue published
an exposé that
delved into the market for aborted baby body parts. It revealed that the
DaVinci biotech companies sent tissues and organs obtained from Planned
Parenthood around the world to businesses that were working to develop
anti-aging drugs for the wealthy.
“The Isaias’ are bad people, and
we are very relieved that they will soon be back in Ecuador to serve their
sentences and hopefully return the money they took from the people they
bilked,” said Newman. “And we are especially glad that they are out of
the baby parts trade permanently.”
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