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All 72 immigration fraud charges have been dropped against the former manager of the Agriprocessors meat plant in Postville, Iowa, federal prosecutors say. The decision to spare Sholom Rubashkin a second criminal trial comes as the former manager awaits...
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A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin�s request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions. Chief Judge Linda Reade ruled that Rubashkin, the former vice president of Agriprocessors, Inc. poses an escape risk...
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Prosecutors argued at a bail hearing for a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager that an outpouring of financial support makes him a greater flight risk...Attorney Peter Deegan noted at the Wednesday hearing that Sholom Rubashkin had raised money...
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Sholom Rubashkin will spend this weekend in the Woodbury County Jail in Sioux City until federal agents move him back to eastern Iowa for more court hearings, a U.S...The former vice president at Agriprocessors Inc., the northeast Iowa slaughterhouse,...
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A jury found a former Agriprocessors Inc. executive guilty on 86 felony fraud counts related to sales records at the meat company's plant in Postville, Iowa. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register reported Friday Sholom Rubashkin , a former Agriprocessor vice...
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Lawyers in the trial of Sholom Rubashkin closed their cases today with clashing portraits of the eastern Iowa meat plant executive. Prosecutors painted Rubashkin as the ringleader of an enormous fraud and immigrant-harboring scheme that festered at the...
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Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin insisted today that he never intentionally violated federal fraud or immigration laws as the head of an eastern Iowa kosher meat plant, but acknowledged that he �made mistakes.� The former top executive at Agriprocessors Inc....
A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank was incompetent and in over his head, a plant employee testified Monday. Chaim Abrahams, a purchasing manager at Agriprocessors Inc., testified for the defense during Sholom Rubashkin's...
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Top executives of an eastern Iowa slaughterhouse knew they were about to be raided by immigration agents and offered to cooperate with the government several days before the bust, a plant manager testified Monday. Chaim Abrahams, a purchasing manager...
Tags: Sholom Rubashkin, Agriprocessors Inc., Aaron Rubashkin, Iowa
Attorneys for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin twice filed motions for a mistrial Wednesday after a key government witness divulged details of illegal immigrants working at the company...District Judge Linda Reade rejected the motions,...