Then the prosecutors should have charged him with that. Then he could be imprisoned for that, if convicted. The fraud conviction had nothing to do with immigration, rather money laundering, transferring funds from an account serving as collateral for a bank loan to another account, falsely identifying them as accounts receivable. He claimed no knowledge of the companies involvement employing illegals. I’ve not a clue if he’s telling the truth, but the state jury on immigration charges did and acquitted him. I believe several lower level employees were convicted on immigration charges.
Yes. Lower level employees took the immigration rap.
Not much that went on in Postville doesn’t go on at Tyson and Cargill meat operations. The feds weren’t going to bring down that house of cards. That makes it true that Rubashkin was unfairly singled out and treated more harshly.