[NativeNewYorker]

After an INS raid on the plant that found hundreds of illegal immigrants, the company was pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and Rubashkin, who had already been arrested for employing illegals, was subsequently found guilty of defrauding a bank and producing false invoices to keep the business going. There is no insinuation that he did any of this for personal profit or gain.

Oh, please. He broke a bunch of black-and-white laws covering finance and labor over the course of several years. Throw the goniff (yiddish for thief) in the slammer, where he belongs. He should have thought about his 10 kids before becoming a crook.

[SJackson]

Oh, please. He broke a bunch of black-and-white laws covering finance and labor over the course of several years.

Consistancy, and justice, requires similar sentences for similar crimes. There are no similar examples of life sentences for criminality of this nature. My guess he'll get somewhere between 8 and 20 years, which is what a defendent who doesn't look odd would get.

[avoth]

“Throw the goniff (yiddish for thief) in the slammer, where he belongs.”

Read the article. No one is saying that he should not be put in jail. But for life? If so, can we have some of that for more serious crimes?