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Andres, Luis and Estefano Isaias family name is very well known in Ecuador and to politicians. Lets start from the beginning (I am sure that there is a lot more to this).
Roberto and William Isaias owned a lot of infrastructure in Ecuador including a bank and 27 radio stations, 2 TV stations, three newspapers and a sugar production company.
Their bank was the 6th largest in Ecuador - Filanbanco.
They are wanted in Ecuador for embezzling $661 million dollars.
They moved to Miami in 2003 after being implicated by the Ecuadorian government in the collapse of one of the country's largest financial institutions, Filanbanco.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08QUITO616_a.html https://archive.is/CZXkc
Guarantee Agency (AGD) seized several commercial properties including two major television stations (Gamavision and TC)
owned by the Isaias Group. The seizures took place following the conclusion of an AGD audit which concludes that
depositors in the Isaias-owned Filanbanco Bank have lost $661 million since 1998, while the Isaias family has profited
substantially.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08QUITO633_a.html https://archive.ph/369Ce
Most Ecuadorians believe that the Isaias family abused their control over Filanbanco and made unsound loans
to companies owned by the family and close associates. Many depositors and creditors lost money when the bank was closed
and have yet to be fully compensated. However, the family has avoided any legal action, allegedly because of its
influence including bribe and threats over the judicial and legislative systems.
Fighting extradition? Who else can you turn to when you are an international criminal and have cash on hand. Politicians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/12/world/americas/wanted-by-ecuador-2-brothers-make-mark-in-us-campaigns.html
https://archive.is/k9ll8
The donations kept pouring in: hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to President Obama and more than a dozen members of Congress, carefully routed through the families of two wealthy brothers in Florida.
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The two men, Roberto and William Isaias, are fugitives from Ecuador, which has angrily pressed Washington to turn them over, to no avail.
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A year after their relatives gave $90,000 to help re-elect Mr. Obama, the administration rejected Ecuador’s extradition request for the men, fueling accusations that such donations were helping to keep the brothers and their families safely on American soil.
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As their legal troubles have mounted, 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, finance records show.
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Around $100,000 of that, 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.
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Mr. Menendez’s office acknowledged sending at least five letters to the Department of Homeland Security for the brothers 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.
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The family gave about $40,000 to Ms. Ros-Lehtinen .. she acknowledged to The Daily Beast that while she was chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee she sent four letters to top American officials, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, then secretary of state, advocating on behalf of three members of the Isaias family who had problems with their residencies
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Mr. Garcia said his office also made a phone call on the family’s behalf, which he called routine. Records show the family donated at least $20,000 to his campaigns.
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Mr. Rubio, whose political action committee received $2,000 from Luis Isaias, also made “routine constituent inquiries” into immigration matters for two family members, his office said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-florida-rep-helped-fugitive-embezzlers https://archive.is/oqSct
In addition to Menendez and Ros-Lehtinen, Isaias family members also contributed to the campaigns of Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and Florida Rep. Joe Garcia,
Oh and as usual these people have foundations … https://www.isaiasdassumhealthfund.org/
Also a massive pan regional entrepreneurial conglomerate with an interest in a vast range of sectors, the key industries being media, telecommunications and banking. The group, which owns more than 100 companies, is owned by three brothers, Roberto Isaias, William Isaias and Estefano Isaias
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isaias_Group