News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 month ago
You have to do your best to get the local community first," said Friedman, who was born and raised in Montreal. If the plant can't find a local work force, "Then I'll have to worry about it afterward." Friedman formed a new company, called Agri Star...
News Source: Des Moines Register
| about 1 month ago
Sholom Rubashkin�s supporters flooded a federal courthouse today to pray for a man they described as generous and warm-hearted. Scores of Chabad-Lubavitch Jews crowded into the Sioux Falls courthouse with psalm books and whispered prayers for the...
News Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
| about 1 month ago
Jury selection was set to begin in the trial of the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse. Sholom Rubashkin is facing a range of charges related to his stewardship of the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville. The plant was the...
News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
The former manager of an Iowa kosher meat empire faces back-to-back trials on allegations of bank fraud and harboring illegal immigrants, officials said. Jury selection was to began Tuesday in the bank fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin, charged with...
News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 month ago
The new owner of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he's a turnaround artist who will operate a leaner plant that avoids the mistakes of his predecessor. Hershey Friedman bought the Agriprocessors, Inc.,...
News Source: Star Tribune
| about 1 month ago
A former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that saw a massive immigration raid is set to go to trial in South Dakota. Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial for Sholom Rubashkin. Rubashkin's trial was moved from Iowa to South Dakota after...