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DOJ to investigate Planned Parenthood over sale of fetal body parts
December 19, 2017
The Department of Justice has indicated it will investigate claims that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of fetal body parts.
The DOJ requested documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 2016 investigation of the abortion provider’s transfer of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses to research firms, The Hill reported on Dec. 7.
Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, reported last December that his committee had uncovered enough evidence for the FBI to investigate the claims against Planned Parenthood.
A letter sent on Dec. 7 to the Judiciary Committee states that the DOJ intends to conduct a “thorough and comprehensive assessment” of Grassley’s report.
In 2015, videos released by the Center for Medical Progress showed Planned Parenthood staffers discussing procurement of “intact” and partial fetuses in exchange for compensation for expenses.
Planned Parenthood said the investigation was part of a “widely discredited attempt” to shut down its abortion operation.
“Planned Parenthood strongly disagrees with the recommendations of the Senate Republican staff to refer this matter to the Justice Department, especially in light of the fact that investigations by three other Congressional committees, and investigations in 13 states including a Grand Jury in Texas, have all shown that Planned Parenthood did nothing wrong,” said Dana Singiser, Vice President of Government Affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
“Planned Parenthood has never, and would never, profit while facilitating its patients’ choice to donate fetal tissue for use in important medical research,” Singiser added.
http://www.worldtribune.com/doj-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-over-sale-of-fetal-body-parts/
2 BABY-BODY-PARTS DEALERS ORDERED TO CLOSE
Companies probed after undercover videos revealed abortion industry's profits
The Orange County, California, district attorney’s office has announced that two baby-body-parts dealers investigated after a series of undercover videos about the abortion industry’s profits on fetal tissue have been ordered to close down.
The companies are DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences.
They “must permanently close and cease all operations in the state of California within 60 and 120 days, respectively, pay a settlement amount of $7,785,000 through the donation of assets and biological materials to a non-profit academic and scientific teaching institution affiliated with a major U.S. medical school, and pay $195,000 in civil penalties,” explained a statement from the office of District Attorney Tony Rackauckas about a settlement in the case.
The companies were identified in undercover videos released in 2015 by the Center for Medical Progress which identified abortion-industry players, including those at Planned Parenthood, negotiating for pieces of the bodies of unborn infants killed through abortion.
Andres Isaias, son of Estefano Isaias, Sr., is listed as President of both companies while his father and brother, Estefano Isaias, Jr., managed financial decisions and the books. Luis Isaias, son of Roberto Isaias, was also involved with the companies as were other relatives.
The OCDA opened its investigation based on a complaint submitted by the CMP and, based on the evidence uncovered, “filed a complaint for violations for unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent business practices in the Superior Court in the state of California in Orange County.”
WND reported the details from the videos have been turned over to the Department of Justice, which confirmed in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that an investigation was underway into potential criminal violations.
Committees in both houses of Congress had reviewed the undercover videos and recommended prosecutions.
The response to the revelations of the horrific practices and attitudes – one abortionist supported her desire for more money because because “I want a Lamborghini” – prompted states to defund the businesses, and that same proposal is pending in Congress.
Abortionists reacted by obtaining from an abortion-linked judge a censorship order for a few of the videos, and they also sued the undercover investigators for violating the abortionists’ privacy during their meetings in public locations.
Liberty Counsel has been defending one of the undercover videographers, Sandra Merritt.
“The lawsuit by the Orange County prosecutor began with the report generated by the House Select Committee investigating Planned Parenthood,” said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel.
“Now that the Department of Justice has picked up the investigation of Planned Parenthood, it is time for the source that trafficked in baby body parts to also face justice. These despicable acts by these companies and their owners underscores why our client Sandra ‘Susan’ Merritt should be applauded for revealing the seedy underbelly of Planned Parenthood.”
The prosecutor in Orange County explained the defendant companies back in 2009 decided to go for a “revenue-driven unit” selling “products derived from the cells and tissues they were already collecting, processing, storing and using for research purposes.”
They hired marketing consultants, created a catalog, developed marketing materials, advertised “fetal brain tissue” for as high as $1,100 a vial and promoted “25% off” discounts at various times.
“Between 2009 and 2011, the defendants nearly tripled sales revenues,” the DA said, by “unlawfully” selling “fetal-derived products to pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions around the world.
Customers came from Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom.
By 2012 they had an inventory of “much greater than $4.4 million.”
The companies’ own documents revealed they concluded “1,000% gross [profit] does not seem unreasonable.”
But federal law forbids exchanging or transferring human tissue for “valuable consideration” and state law says essentially the same.
The DA’s statement continued: “There is a ‘societal belief’ … that ‘rejects commercialization of human organs and tissues and tolerates only an altruistic system of voluntary donation. ‘ … Thus, any such ‘commerce is generally seen as revolting.'”
Liberty Counsel explained: “DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences are owned by Andres Isaias, who is a part of an internationally known crime family.
His uncles, Roberto Isaias and William Isaias, were convicted and sentenced in Ecuador for driving their bank into the ground and then using false documents to get a government bailout. Their fraud cost the country $661.5 million dollars and more than $200 million in assets were not recovered.”
The group continued: “However, rather than Roberto and William serving eight years in prison, the extended family made $320,000 in political donations between 2010-2014.
The vast majority of which went to Democrat candidates, including $90,000 to President Obama’s re-election campaign.
They sought asylum in America with their extended families, and their immigration received expedited treatment from the Hillary Clinton-led State Department.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department actively fought Ecuador’s requests to deport the brothers, according to The New York Times. Up to now, many extended family members were involved in these companies.”
New York Times Article - Wanted by Ecuador, 2 Brothers Make
Mark in U.S. Campaigns
Link: http://www.operationrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NY-Times-March-2014-on-Isaias-including-Estefano.pdf
Around $100,000 largely from the fugitives’ spouses and children, went to more than a dozen members of Congress, including Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey; Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Senator Marco Rubio, Florida Republicans; and Representative Joe Garcia, Democrat of Florida — all of whom have acknowledged trying to help the family with immigration troubles.
When the DOJ investigation was confirmed earlier, Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue and a CMP board member, said, “It is gratifying to learn that a criminal investigation of the nation’s largest abortion merchant is underway.”
WND reported in October the FBI said it was reviewing the recommendations of two congressional committees to investigate evidence of Planned Parenthood’s trade in the body parts of unborn children.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/2-baby-body-parts-dealers-ordered-to-close/
December 19, 2017
The Department of Justice has indicated it will investigate claims that Planned Parenthood profited from the sale of fetal body parts.
The DOJ requested documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 2016 investigation of the abortion provider’s transfer of tissue and body parts from aborted fetuses to research firms, The Hill reported on Dec. 7.
Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, reported last December that his committee had uncovered enough evidence for the FBI to investigate the claims against Planned Parenthood.
A letter sent on Dec. 7 to the Judiciary Committee states that the DOJ intends to conduct a “thorough and comprehensive assessment” of Grassley’s report.
In 2015, videos released by the Center for Medical Progress showed Planned Parenthood staffers discussing procurement of “intact” and partial fetuses in exchange for compensation for expenses.
Planned Parenthood said the investigation was part of a “widely discredited attempt” to shut down its abortion operation.
“Planned Parenthood strongly disagrees with the recommendations of the Senate Republican staff to refer this matter to the Justice Department, especially in light of the fact that investigations by three other Congressional committees, and investigations in 13 states including a Grand Jury in Texas, have all shown that Planned Parenthood did nothing wrong,” said Dana Singiser, Vice President of Government Affairs for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
“Planned Parenthood has never, and would never, profit while facilitating its patients’ choice to donate fetal tissue for use in important medical research,” Singiser added.
http://www.worldtribune.com/doj-to-investigate-planned-parenthood-over-sale-of-fetal-body-parts/
2 BABY-BODY-PARTS DEALERS ORDERED TO CLOSE
Companies probed after undercover videos revealed abortion industry's profits
The Orange County, California, district attorney’s office has announced that two baby-body-parts dealers investigated after a series of undercover videos about the abortion industry’s profits on fetal tissue have been ordered to close down.
The companies are DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences.
They “must permanently close and cease all operations in the state of California within 60 and 120 days, respectively, pay a settlement amount of $7,785,000 through the donation of assets and biological materials to a non-profit academic and scientific teaching institution affiliated with a major U.S. medical school, and pay $195,000 in civil penalties,” explained a statement from the office of District Attorney Tony Rackauckas about a settlement in the case.
The companies were identified in undercover videos released in 2015 by the Center for Medical Progress which identified abortion-industry players, including those at Planned Parenthood, negotiating for pieces of the bodies of unborn infants killed through abortion.
Andres Isaias, son of Estefano Isaias, Sr., is listed as President of both companies while his father and brother, Estefano Isaias, Jr., managed financial decisions and the books. Luis Isaias, son of Roberto Isaias, was also involved with the companies as were other relatives.
The OCDA opened its investigation based on a complaint submitted by the CMP and, based on the evidence uncovered, “filed a complaint for violations for unlawful, unfair, and fraudulent business practices in the Superior Court in the state of California in Orange County.”
WND reported the details from the videos have been turned over to the Department of Justice, which confirmed in a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that an investigation was underway into potential criminal violations.
Committees in both houses of Congress had reviewed the undercover videos and recommended prosecutions.
The response to the revelations of the horrific practices and attitudes – one abortionist supported her desire for more money because because “I want a Lamborghini” – prompted states to defund the businesses, and that same proposal is pending in Congress.
Abortionists reacted by obtaining from an abortion-linked judge a censorship order for a few of the videos, and they also sued the undercover investigators for violating the abortionists’ privacy during their meetings in public locations.
Liberty Counsel has been defending one of the undercover videographers, Sandra Merritt.
“The lawsuit by the Orange County prosecutor began with the report generated by the House Select Committee investigating Planned Parenthood,” said Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel.
“Now that the Department of Justice has picked up the investigation of Planned Parenthood, it is time for the source that trafficked in baby body parts to also face justice. These despicable acts by these companies and their owners underscores why our client Sandra ‘Susan’ Merritt should be applauded for revealing the seedy underbelly of Planned Parenthood.”
The prosecutor in Orange County explained the defendant companies back in 2009 decided to go for a “revenue-driven unit” selling “products derived from the cells and tissues they were already collecting, processing, storing and using for research purposes.”
They hired marketing consultants, created a catalog, developed marketing materials, advertised “fetal brain tissue” for as high as $1,100 a vial and promoted “25% off” discounts at various times.
“Between 2009 and 2011, the defendants nearly tripled sales revenues,” the DA said, by “unlawfully” selling “fetal-derived products to pharmaceutical companies and academic institutions around the world.
Customers came from Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Australia, Netherlands, Canada and the United Kingdom.
By 2012 they had an inventory of “much greater than $4.4 million.”
The companies’ own documents revealed they concluded “1,000% gross [profit] does not seem unreasonable.”
But federal law forbids exchanging or transferring human tissue for “valuable consideration” and state law says essentially the same.
The DA’s statement continued: “There is a ‘societal belief’ … that ‘rejects commercialization of human organs and tissues and tolerates only an altruistic system of voluntary donation. ‘ … Thus, any such ‘commerce is generally seen as revolting.'”
Liberty Counsel explained: “DV Biologics and DaVinci Biosciences are owned by Andres Isaias, who is a part of an internationally known crime family.
His uncles, Roberto Isaias and William Isaias, were convicted and sentenced in Ecuador for driving their bank into the ground and then using false documents to get a government bailout. Their fraud cost the country $661.5 million dollars and more than $200 million in assets were not recovered.”
The group continued: “However, rather than Roberto and William serving eight years in prison, the extended family made $320,000 in political donations between 2010-2014.
The vast majority of which went to Democrat candidates, including $90,000 to President Obama’s re-election campaign.
They sought asylum in America with their extended families, and their immigration received expedited treatment from the Hillary Clinton-led State Department.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department actively fought Ecuador’s requests to deport the brothers, according to The New York Times. Up to now, many extended family members were involved in these companies.”
New York Times Article - Wanted by Ecuador, 2 Brothers Make
Mark in U.S. Campaigns
Link: http://www.operationrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NY-Times-March-2014-on-Isaias-including-Estefano.pdf
Around $100,000 largely from the fugitives’ spouses and children, went to more than a dozen members of Congress, including Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey; Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Senator Marco Rubio, Florida Republicans; and Representative Joe Garcia, Democrat of Florida — all of whom have acknowledged trying to help the family with immigration troubles.
When the DOJ investigation was confirmed earlier, Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue and a CMP board member, said, “It is gratifying to learn that a criminal investigation of the nation’s largest abortion merchant is underway.”
WND reported in October the FBI said it was reviewing the recommendations of two congressional committees to investigate evidence of Planned Parenthood’s trade in the body parts of unborn children.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/2-baby-body-parts-dealers-ordered-to-close/
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