Posted on 12/21/2017 5:03:30 PM PST by deplorableindc
President Trump issued his first prison commutation Wednesday to a man whose business was caught employing 389 illegal immigrants in a single shift, dismaying anti-illegal immigration advocates and a former prosecutor on the case.
With Trump's rare use of clemency, Sholom Rubashkin left prison seven years into a 27-year sentence.
"He was up to his hips in illegal immigration," said Robert Teig, a former assistant U.S. attorney involved in prosecuting Rubashkin. Before his conviction, Rubashkin oversaw operations at Agriprocessors, his father's company and once one of the nation's largest kosher meat producers.
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Instead of pardoning someone who may have been prosecuted for political reasons, he pardons this clown? I’m scratching my head on this one. I wonder who advised him to let this guy go.
I wonder if Bibi had a hand in this? Had to be someone President Trump really respects.
Lol.. kinda explains why we don’t have a wall.
Turns out he didn’t pardon the guy at all. His conviction and associated fines still stand. They just commuted his prison sentence because they thought a 27-year sentence was excessive for non-violent crimes.
The judge held talks with prosecutors for 6 months PRIOR (!) to the case...and neither she nor the government disclosed it to the defense. This is one reason legal giants such as Ed Messe and Paul Clement argued for his clemency.
One of the conductors of the Cheap Labor Express.
I am disappointed.
From that perspective I might be inclined to agree.
Thanks for that explanation-——like many here I was questioning the decision without getting the facts.
Shame on me.
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If, in fact, Bibi asked for this then it’s reasonable. Otherwise, the Donald probably was persuaded by a real close buddy.
So much for kosher.
They?
Try again bubala...
If Bibi asked for it then the guy should be stripped of his citizenship and sent to live in Israel.
If not, then it does stink to high heaven.
If some suburban family employs a wetback as a maid or landscaper...$100,000 fine and 5 years at Club Fed for the head(s) of household.
I'm not sure why this dude would make a statement like this. My understanding is that all of the immigration charges against the defendant were dismissed and the Federal convictions were for multiple counts of bank fraud.
Sheldon Anderson
The judge held talks with prosecutors for 6 months PRIOR (!) to the case...and neither she nor the government disclosed it to the defense. This is one reason legal giants such as Ed Messe and Paul Clement argued for his clemency.
I guess it could be worse. He could have committed secular blasphemy by complaining about Their Holiness the Main Stream Media. Then the media and their lackeys in internal security could have attempted to put him into an early grave by indirect techniques of assassination. The authorities wouldn't want to get caught eliminating people whose nose is too clean.
With the MSM conveniently publishing all sorts of bu11sh!t "leaks" from internal security as we have seen recently and has been going on for decades, exactly what is the quid pro quo? Add the scandal of the purchase of Scotland Yard leadership by News Corp., and undoubtedly the same corruption happening in the USA, what is the additional quid pro quo?
I don’t let the MEDIA tell me what I should be mad at Trump about. In this case, I don’t know enough to make a call either way, but I do know that it was Obama’s DOJ that put him away for 27 years, much, much longer than literally ANYONE who commits murder in an inner city and is tried in that city, by a local judge.
Bottom line - I’ll defer to Trump’s judgment on this. I’ll get angry if he caves on the DACA or the Wall - things that I actually understand. In this case, I never even heard of the guy until today.
It really hurt Postville, IA.
PETA was upset about the animals. Butchering there is no pretty way to do it. A bullet or two in the head might be kinder but that's the point of kosher, has to be according to rules. I would have to defend their religious beliefs though.
The thing that botherred me the most, is illegals or not, and I can't find anything on it now, but it was especially hard on the women, especially pregnant ones. They had to work long hours and very hard.
Twenty-seven years did surprise me though, seemed awfully long. What really hacks me off is we don't like it when Clinton pardons those criminals and like someone suggested, must have been some more worthy individuals.
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