Special Report: Puello Says Other Dominicans Helped Silsby

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Puello Says Other Dominicans Helped Silsby

Interpol Fugitive Names Names, Seeks to Clear His Own

February 24, 2010 | By Anne-christine d’Adesky

Editor's Note: The article below is a first-person account and investigative report that builds upon recent statements made by wanted Interpol fugitive Jorge Puello about his relationship with jailed US Baptist missionary Laura Silsby and her New Life Children's Refuge group. This article references a series of email communications this past week between Mr. Puello, who remains in hiding, and Anne-christine d'Adesky, a longtime journalist with family roots in Haiti. Their conversation discussed his whereabouts, history, activities and role with respect to Laura Silsby and New Lifers. As was reported in the press(i), Ms. d'Adesky met with the Silsby group on the eve of their entry into Haiti in January. She later shared confidential information with UN authorities working on Protection and Child Protection in Haiti about her encounter and subsequent encounters with orphanage representatives who met Silsby.

As detailed below, Mr. Puello alleges that another group of Dominicans were helping Silsby secure documents and passage across the border prior to her fateful trip to Haiti. This article does not disclose their names, because these allegations require further investigation. But it will be shared with law enforcement authorities. His comments support statements made by Silsby herself to Ms. d'Adesky in January, prior to the Haiti trip.

Given Mr. Puello's status as a wanted fugitive, and a man who has served time for various offenses, there are reasons to question his credibility. Even if they are true, his statements are difficult to verify, as they allege criminal activity by others. To the best of this reporter's abilities, there is no doubt that Mr. Puello is in fact the author of the emails, and that other emails he shares are genuine documents. So is a copy of a bank statement offered as proof of his claim that he never intended to steal from Haitian lawyers he hired to help Ms. Silsby.

Finally, a note about this investigation: Haiti Vox sought to work with several major media outlets in order to devote more investigative resources to this investigation, which requires more time and resources than were available. In the interest of time, and with Silsby's release from jail pending, this report was released with the preliminary information that has been gathered. The investigation is ongoing.

(Haiti Vox)

Feb 24 – Over the past two weeks, accused Dominican trafficker Jorge Puello has been on the run, but he's hardly been quiet. Instead, Puello has been actively communicating with journalists(ii) and using the Internet to defend his actions in the increasingly complex case of a group of Idaho Baptist missionaries, led by Laura Silsby, who remains in jail in Haiti, along with her Charisa Coulter, her assistant. For the past few nights, Puello has communicated with Haiti Vox via email replies, and has provided some documentary evidence (copies of email, attached bank statements) to support his claims.

Puello continues to claim no history with Laura Silsby prior to his introduction to her in jail. Instead, he claims, another high-ranking Dominican lawyer, and a Dominican military officer were helping her with documents and other help needed to bring Haitian children into their country. If his claims prove true, one of these named individuals has a past link with trafficking.

The New Life Mission

Silsby and nine other members of the Idaho-based New Life Children's Refuge orphanage project were arrested in late January by border police. They were detained after attempting to cross into the Dominican Republic in a chartered bus with 33 Haitian children they claimed were orphans, but for which they lacked official paperwork. Later Internet searches revealed that Silsby had been planning the Haiti mission for some time, and that her long-range plans included future adoption by Christian families, via the similarly-named New Life International Adoption Foundation. Throughout this saga, Silsby has maintained she never planned to have the children adopted abroad, but her own Haiti trip paperwork states otherwise.

As posts in Haiti Vox(iii) and many media stories have reported, the Jan. 29 border arrest was actually Silsby's second brush with Haitian law that week: days before, a Haitian police had stopped the bus in the Petion-Ville section of the capital with 40children aboard.(iv) The policeman ordered the children to disembark. Silsby then met with the Dominican consul in Port-au-Prince to argue her case. He dismissed her claims and warned Silsby that she lacked proper papers or Haitian official permission to escort any children out of the country. He later told reporters that he had warned Silsby that her group would be regarded as traffickers if they tried to cross the border.

She clearly later ignored his warning (and the warnings of others). The New Life group was detained on charges of possible child kidnapping, while the 'orphans' she had picked up were put into temporary custody at the SOS Children's Village in Haiti. (The children were soon revealed to be children who had parents; some parents admitted they'd freely handed the children over to Silsby's group after their local pastor has discussed the orphanage with them, and seeing a brochure advertising the orphanage complete with swimming pool. The parents were promised the children were staying in the Dominican Republic and they could visit their children when they wanted to.)(v) Now, having learned that adoption might have been on the agenda, some parents feel betrayed, others honestly regret their children won't have a chance to live elsewhere, while others are desperate to reconnect with their children, still being kept in custody at the SOS Children‟s Village orphanage.

Today, Silsby and her co-organizer, Charisa Coulter, remain in jail in Port-au-Prince, pending release this week by Haitian judge Bernard Saint-Vil. The judge was in the Dominican Republic this weekend seeking confirmation of Silby‟s version of events – and any evidence that might prove or disprove a pre-arrest link to Puello or traffickers.

The Puello Connection: Who Did What, When?

The Puello connection electrified Haitians and Haiti-watchers two weeks ago when it was revealed the man who had stepped in to help the Baptist group with legal services was suspected of being a wanted Dominican (or Salvadoran, or US) trafficker – and wasn't even a lawyer. Today, Puello openly admits he's the man Interpol wants to arrest for trafficking of Dominican and Salvadoran women in El Salvador– one of several charges levied against Puello. His common law wife is currently serving time there for that crime – but Puello escaped.

His current whereabouts post his outing as a wanted man, remain unconfirmed. He could still be in the Dominican Republic (an Internet email IP search by one blogger still puts him in the DR)(vi), or he's escaped to Panama (something he told the AP days ago), or he could be elsewhere. In one of several emails to me in recent days, Puello claimed he has software that generates a false IP address so his movements can't be tracked, and that he's not in the Dominican Republic. He claims he's asked his lawyer in El Salvador for help in clearing his name, and plans to go there at some point. He‟s “laying low” for now.(vii) But he‟ll keep using the Internet to “clear his name.”

The Silsby case was already disturbing enough before the revelation of an actual potential trafficking link with the Puello connection. With Puello's involvement, it has become a supercharged issue that has galvanized anger among Haitians who charge that US missionary groups – and outsiders – are taking advantage of Haiti's weak government and the chaos that has followed the devastating January 12 earthquake. While Silsby initially claimed innocence about not knowing she lacked necessary paperwork to adopt Haitian children and orphans, her claims have been effectively challenged by many different parties, to the point where she's not longer saying much about that. But she continues to claim she had someone with authority was telling her it was okay to go ahead. So, was it Puello?

The trafficker ‘with a heart.’

Born in Yonkers, US, the 32-year old Puello has been living in the Dominican Republic and dabbled in different businesses, including real estate. His most recent real estate activity, was, he claims, related to the construction of the modern, high-rise Santo Domingo Madison Towers in the exclusive Skyscraper City zone of El Naco, in Santo Domingo.(viii) His Puello Real Estate Group advertises itself as a Developer-Builder company, represented by Jorge or Alejandro Puello, his cousin. That company also engaged in low-income apartment buildings and rentals. An internet site confirms that his firm was representing this building.

As it turns out, his cousin Alejandro is the lawyer in the family. But when reporters came to call upon him recently, he claimed no knowledge of why his on-the-lam cousin Jorge would pretend to be a lawyer and why he'd meddle in the affairs of a missionary group dabbling in orphan work. Further media conversations with Puello's mother and stepfather confirmed Jorge's a wanted man -- a wayward son in his mother's eyes. She remains certain – at least to reporters – that Jorge cannot be guilty of those things he stands accused of – including sexual trafficking. But there's no question her son has spent time in jail for helping people illegally cross borders, and using false documents, and that his common-law wife is a convicted trafficker.

Puello is also a practicing and passionate Orthodox Jew – a self-proclaimed convert to Judaism who goes by the name Yoram Migdal. He bills himself as the President of the Sephardic community in the Dominican Republic. In interviews, leading members of the Jewish community there now disclaim much knowledge or any active association with Puello, though he has davened (prayed) with them.(ix) An investigation by Haiti Vox found that Puello had registered a similarly named Sephardic company in Miami that law enforcement officials believe might have been a cover for his Internet escort business.

Meeting Laura and the New Lifers

On the eve of Silsby's entry into Haiti, I met her group by chance at the Hotel Lino in Santo Domingo. As a journalist working on monitoring orphan issues post-Haiti‟s quake, I introduced myself when I overheard one of her colleagues discussing something to do with orphans there. Later that night, I talked to Silsby and two members in her hotel room for about a half an hour. After I introduced myself and my work reporting on the post-quake orphan crisis in Haiti, we talked about their work. She openly and excitedly shared her group's plans to pick up Haitian children and put them in a Dominican hotel she had leased, pending completion of a proper facility that would house up at least 150 children. Throughout our conversation, she repeatedly referred to God having called her to rescue the Haitian children. God had spoken to her. If God wanted them to succeed, they would. Words to that effect.

During our conversation, Silsby told me what she later told others (or some variation thereof): that she had secured 'permission' from a Dominican 'minister' to bring the children into the Dominican Republic. When I politely informed her that Haitian authority and documents were still surely required, since these were Haitian children, she smiled while dismissing my concern. "I've been assured we can bring the children in," she told me. In fact, the documents were being drawn up as we spoke. Her colleague was on the computer communicating with the individuals preparing the paperwork for her.

What confused me then, and has clearly continued to bother Haitian Judge Saint-Vil, is that Silsby appeared to be randomly gathering up any child in her path while on her Haiti mission, although adoption papers require a child's name to be on the document. How could the papers be drawn up if she didn't know what children she would be finding? I assumed at the time that she had some names, and was planning to, well, wing it with the others.

When I pressed her about the nature of the paperwork, or the name or identity of the 'minister,' she demurred. I was not certain if she was referring to a government minister, or a religious one(or both?) In that conversation, Silsby and I discussed the recent case of US journalists who had been stopped by Homeland Security for ferrying an injured child from Haiti into the US by charter plane without complete paperwork for the child. That was a reason the Haitian authorities had clamped down, I informed her.

Silsby, it was obvious, knew all about the case – and what people might say. She waved away my concerns. I later wrote down what she said: "We're doing God's work. If he wants us to succeed, we will." I was insistent, however, because I knew Haiti, and I felt she didn't, or might underestimate the risk of arrest. What gave her confidence, I saw, was the 'letter of authorization' she had from her Dominican 'minister.' She also implied that she had 'connections' to help her with the border crossing.

Another thing Silsby kept stressing was that the New Life group 'was different' from all the other adoption agencies working in Haiti. They didn't plan to take the children out of the Dominican Republic, she told me. That's why the Dominicans had agreed to help her, she explained.

Later, post-arrest, when I learned that Silsby had listed in her plan the possibility of offering children up for adoption, working with the similarly-named New Life International Adoption Foundation, I realized that she had not been truthful with me. And so I wondered: had she gotten some help from Dominican authorities under a false pretense? After all, at the time, there was a lot of discussion about providing a safe haven for injured Haitians and quake refugees inside the Dominican border, and talk of an area set aside for orphans and vulnerable children. Perhaps the Dominicans thought Silsby's group was part of that plan?

Who’s lying now?

As it later turned out, Silsby's group didn't have the required paperwork when they got to the border. But has she ever had it? Or did the plan go wrong somewhere? That's something that Puello's emails suggest might have occurred.

All along, Laura Silsby has maintained she had a 'letter' from the Dominican side – from someone with authority – that gave her permission to ignore what she was clearly told were international rules governing foreign adoption and cases involving Unaccompanied Minor Refugees. When journalists came to interview her in jail, she pointed to a manila envelope she clutched that would 'prove her innocence.'(Note: I never got to see that letter, but I was told that this letter or document was shown to the Dominican consul. Later, Puello was clutching a manila envelope with the 'proof' of her permission allegedy inside.) The day the New Life bus attempted to cross the border with the 33 children, she did not have any documents to give border officials when asked. If she was telling the truth or some part of the truth, then what happened?

Puello Claims High-Placed Woman Lawyer, ‘General’ Helped Silsby

Who was helping Laura Silsby and her team in the DR? Were they traffickers? If they were, did she have any idea who she was dealing with?

That's the burning question that Haitian Judge Saint-Vil has been trying to address by detaining Silsby and Coulter after releasing eight of their colleagues days ago. As of Tuesday evening, media reports from Haiti suggested the judge had come up empty handed, without any smoking-barrel proof to detain Silsby or Coulter any longer. He told reporters he planned to release them this week.

Among the individuals helping the New Lifers plan their project in the Dominican Republic are two real estate agents named Jose Hidalgo and Rob Chenvert. Media stories have confirmed that Hidalgo helped Silsby lease a 45-room ex-hotel as a temporary orphanage to house the Haitian children.(x) The owner of the ex-hotel was the Catholic archdiocese. There is nothing to suggest that any of these individuals engaged in any illegal activity.

There were also other New Lifers in the DR, a couple from the US who had agreed to register the orphanage, and Dominicans helping to prepare the hotel for the arrival of the children. In our conversation, Silsby referred to 'others' in her Idaho church who join as the project took off. It was clear her church, not just these individuals, were behind the project. In a fresh blog post, The Daily Bastardette has looked more deeply into the activities and role of several missionaries who quickly returned to the US when Silsby was arrested and like Puello, are now laying low.

A New Smoking Gun?

This weekend, after mulling my initial encounter with Silsby again, I decided to try to learn more about the Dominicans who had been helping Silsby, or at least had encouraged her to continue carrying out her misadventure. From his hiding place, Puello had randomly emailed a blogger, The Daily Bastardette , a passionate, though incoherent, defense of his Jewish identity and his connection to the Jewish community in the Dominican Republic, which the blogger had publicly questioned. His email address was posted there. Late one night, I decided to email 'Yoram Migdal' to ask if would answer some nagging questions. It was a long shot. But he replied.

My questions included: Why had he helped Silsby, someone he had never met, when he had an outstanding international warrant for his arrest. Why take that risk? Surely he had to know her or have some other reason beyond 'being moved' by her plight? When had he met her? What had been her reaction at the jail – purportedly the first time they had met? How and why had he contacted the relatives of the New Lifers in the U.S.? Was it really randomly, via the Internet? And who had contacted who? Why were the relatives claiming to have no knowledge of him? What did he have to say about accusations by the Haitian lawyers that he'd stolen $30,000 of legal fees they were owed?

Most importantly, I wanted to know: Had he been in touch with others in the Dominican Republic? Did he know of anyone else helping Silsby's group there – apart from the two real estate agents known to have helped her secure property for her planned orphanage?

Yoram Migdal directly answered my questions, and when I doubted his answers, he provided further hard copy evidence to back them up. These include a PDF format of a bank statement and copies of email mail exchanges between him and Sean Lankford, one of the relatives of the Idaho clan who is his main contact with the group.

These emails confirm without question that they are coming from Jorge Puello – the information in them is very specific. The email exchanges between Puello and Lankford are also current, revealing active communication between them. This is in contrast with disavowals made recently by lawyers for the Idaho relatives: that they have had little to do with Puello.

The most significant information is Puello's allegation that other Dominicans helped Silsby -- corrupt individuals, he claims, who he feels likely duped and betrayed her. If his finger-pointing pans out, then Laura Silsby was seeking help from high-level Dominicans in politics and the government. And – if he's right - one of them is a woman who was fired in 2007 after her subordinate was found guilty of trafficking persons across the border. These are serious allegations that merit investigation. If they are true, it suggests that Silsby was getting help from people who might have been seeking to help her break the law. Nothing in Puello's statements implicates Silsby herself directly in trafficking.

But all of it invites a deeper probe into this affair: What's the truth? Who was involved? In what, exactly? And how can it be proved? Or disproved? And most importantly, what does all of this spell for Laura Silsby and her claim of innocence?

Puello still defends Silsby

According to Jorge Puello -- con man extraordinaire, wayward son, Jewish convert, and wanted sexual trafficker – Laura Silsby and her colleague Charisa Coulter are innocent of trafficking – at least to the best of his knowledge. They were duped, they were played, he puts it simply. That doesn't mean they didn't get mixed up with bad people – they did. And he‟s not talking about himself, though his emails to Sean Lankford reflect a man who couldn‟t daven enough to say he's sorry for all the trouble he's caused them. He's talking about the 'Lady Lawyer' behind the famous 'letter' Silsby was telling everyone she had – or was supposed to have - and the 'General' who was going to assist her in getting into the Dominican Republic with her busload of children.

In response to questions, Puello states that he made contact with a woman lawyer who had been helping Silsby. The name he provided matches that of a high ranking lawyer and provincial district attorney who is active in Dominican politics. He claims that he contacted this woman when he noticed her name on some legal documents connected to Silsby. When he talked to this lawyer, the women told Puello that Silsby was supposed to go to the border where "the papers were going to be there, ready." But when the lawyer contact learned that Silsby had been detained, she "got nervous and hung up," claims Puello.

His statements about a 'General' helping Silsby also matched Silby's original statements to me, the night of our meeting, about a Dominican 'minister' who had given his assurance her group would have no trouble getting into the Dominican Republic.

Here is a verbatim excerpt of his reply to my questions about who in the Dominican Republic might have been working with Silsby to procure necessary documents:

Puello: In the investigation to get EXCULPATORY evidence for her (Silsby), I notice a [name deleted] who was her lawyer at the time in getting the paperwork done. I contacted her to try to get the paper that she had for her and she told me there was a General involved in getting the kids across the border. And that she also had a contact in Unicef (UN) and that she told Laura Silsby to go to the Border and that the papers were going to be there ready. She ask me if I was given RD$ 150,000 she needed for the paperwork. I explained to her the problem that Mrs. Silsby had. She got nervous and hang up.

Puello added: I believe that Laura Silsby was being led to believe that she had all documents based on lies by this Woman Lawyer.

After Mr. Puello provided me with the name of the 'Lady Lawyer,' I did some research. I found information about a person with that name that has raised a fresh red flag.

A State Department document states that a Dominican female lawyer with that same name who worked as a district attorney in a province of the Dominican Republic was fired in 2007 after her subordinate was indicted for trafficking of persons across the border. The name on the State Department document includes an additional surname. When I inquired again, Puello confirmed this was the person he contacted on behalf of Silsby. He provided a lead for confirming her identity which is being pursued.

Puello did not have any more information about the purported General who had been helping Silsby, but in reply to a direct question of whether this person might be the same person she called the 'Minister,' Puello said: "YES HE IS. They are all corrupt government officials. (Laura did not know this) She was taken as a fool."

The other Dominicans.

Before communicating with Puello, I had assumed that his status as a sometime real estate agent working in Sosua, DR, might have put him in contact with the two other real estate agents who had helped Silsby find her ex-hotel to lease from Catholic authorities. But Puello said that was wrong. He simply learned of her plight via the news, and found the Baptist relatives that way.

In his words, then: "I SWEAR TO YOU THAT I GOT THE NEWS FROM A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE, AND GOOGLE SEARCH THE CHURCH AND SEAN LANKFORD ANSWERED THE PHONE. THAT IS HOW I CONTACTED HIM."

Puello writes that he only met the Dominican real estate duo helping Silsby after he took on the case. He claims he met Jose Hidalgo at the Matun Hotel in Santiago to get copies of documents (real estate), and again at the Adelphia Gran Almirante Hotel after "I was told by the Haitian lawyers that copies are not accepted by the Haitian Court."

It was after that, Puello claims, "that I learned Chrorisa (sp) was very ill and I risked my life several time to thate (take) them medicine, food, clothing and the Evidence to free them, I even rented a cesna plane to take the documents over there."

Betrayed by his ‘brother’

Puello reserves his regrets – and some fresh anger too – for the Idaho relatives who blindly hired him to help their clan in Haiti.(xi) Recently, one of the Haitian lawyers who Puello hired accused him of stealing $30,000 – the remainder of a collective $40,000 fee he helped secure for them from the families of the missionaries. But Puello's family showed CNN a receipt for $10,000 – proof, they suggested, that Puello had sent the advance to the Haitian lawyers. What's missing is the remainder of the fee. The Haitian lawyers claim he fled with the money. Puello says he still has the money in his account – but couldn't send it because his accounts are now blocked – and there was (is) a warrant out for his arrest.

Among the documents Puello shared is a copy of a bank statement that he claims proves he still has the money to send to the Haitian lawyers. He was forced to go into hiding before the remainder cleared, and now, he claims, the money is waiting there, in his blocked account, ready to be transferred to Haiti. Puello's email exchange to Sean Lankford reveals an ongoing anxiety that his reputation is being further damaged by accusations that he's a thief, something he hotly disputes.

In the U.S., it seems that the Lankford group aren't sure who's telling the truth, but they want to get their money back from Puello – and then they'll pay the Haitians. But from his comments, it's appears Puello is worried they'll won't later pay up. If they don't, he's left branded a thief.

The email exchange (below) with Lankford also suggests a different earlier relationship, before his criminal past was revealed. Here Puello expresses his love for Lankford and his Church:

Puello: Sean, I am very sorry for all this troubles but G-d has a plan for this, I did not mean to hurt your people or family, and I never represented your people I always got Lawyers to do so, At the begining it was Mr. Patrick Laurant and after that it was Aviol Fleurant.

People still saying bad things. G-d has a plan for this.

They don´t report that I risk my own life several times traveling to Haiti to take medicin (sp), food and to care for the well being of your people.

I love you and your Congregation. G-d Bless all of you

There's also warmth flowing back in an email in which Sean Lankford shares a story about Daniel from the Old Testament with Puello, which references the destruction of Haiti:

Sean: Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

Clearly the brotherhood has since been tested.

Pursuing the Truth

The Silsby saga is one of those stories that gets stranger with every new revelation and yet remains plausible. Since I spoke directly with Laura Silsby and was present in the hotel room when her team was excitedly hovering by the computer waiting for the last of their 'papers' to arrive, I am inclined to believe someone – more than someone – was helping her to develop some paperwork on the Dominican side. She also had Dominican Baptist colleagues who were excited about her orphanage project – just as she had contacts in the Haitian Baptist community. So I believe that there's some truth to what she was saying: someone there had granted her 'authorization' to bring Haitian children into the Dominican Republic. Whether she had actively sought help in bending the rules is another unknown million-peso question. Her behavior in Haiti suggests she was clearly on a mission and was determined to carry it out.

My own view is that it's critical to investigate any possible links to the Dominican individuals Silsby claims were helping her, in order to understand their role and what she might have said to them, and on what basis they were legitimately trying to help Silsby, or a la Puello, might have had other, possibly less benevolent, motives in mind. Any hint of possible trafficking deserves our collective serious attention. Getting to the bottom of this story may not be easy, but it's important.

As it stands, all parties have been cast in a damaging light – Haitian lawyers, Dominican officials, US Baptists, orphan advocates – and the ongoing story has fueled a growing anger and mistrust among Haitians of any groups who display genuine concern about the plight of orphaned and vulnerable children in Haiti and want to help. Along with truth, what‟s also needed is an urgent, compassionate, unified response to the needs of Haitians, including the Haitian government, and including Haitian orphans, and parents with vulnerable children.
Stay Tuned.
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Article References:

i http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703422904575039761361995340.html
ii CNN, Associated Press
iii www.haitivox.com
iv http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/08/haiti.border.arrests/index.html
vhttp://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_HAITI_DETAINED_AMERICANS?SITE=AZSUN&SECTION;=HOME&TEMPLATE;=DEFAULT&CTIME;=2010-02-14-06-44-27
vi http://bastardette.blogspot.com/
vii Private e-mail communication with Haiti Vox, 2/20/10
viii www.immobiliaria24.com. The Madison is at Siervas de Maria No. 84 in Naco.
ix http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2010/02/kulanu-repudiates-puello-789.html
x http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/19/1489999/dr-agent-shares-orphanage-plans.html
xi http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/world/americas/14haiti.html



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Story updated (typographical errors fixed) at 7:28 pm PSF 2.24.10