Pay To Play: Ecuador Family Wins Favors After Donations to Democrats

Pay To Play: Ecuador Family Wins Favors After Donations to Democrats
US President Barack Obama speaks during a taping of the Christmas in Washington concert at the National Building Museum December 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama and the first family attended the charity concert to benefit the Children's National Medical Center. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama speaks during a taping of the Christmas in Washington concert at the National Building Museum December 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama and the first family attended the charity concert to benefit the Children's National Medical Center. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

MIAMI — The Obama administration overturned a ban preventing a wealthy, politically connected Ecuadorean woman from entering the United States after her family gave tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns, according to finance records and government officials.

The woman, Estefanía Isaías, had been barred from coming to the United States after being caught fraudulently obtaining visas for her maids. But the ban was lifted at the request of the State Department under former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton so that Ms. Isaías could work for an Obama fund-raiser with close ties to the administration.

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