I thought the collusion between the judge on the case and the prosecutors before the immigration raid was a serious indicator that they were out to get him for something, anything. The judge should’ve been forced to recuse in order for a fair trial to commence.
Evidence at trial showed Rubashkin inflated Agriprocessors’ sales in order to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in loans that were not backed by any collateral. Rubashkin also diverted millions of dollars in customer payments that were supposed to go to Agriprocessors’ primary lender. He committed money laundering by running tens of millions of dollars through bank accounts at a Postville grocery store and a religious school.
The trial evidence showed Rubashkin was personally involved in harboring hundreds of undocumented worker at Agriprocessors and illegally delaying payments to Agriprocessors’ cattle suppliers. He paid for the purchase of fabricated IDs for undocumented workers and personally inspected those documents. Evidence showed Rubashkin’s fraud resulted in over $26 million in actual loss to Agriprocessors’ lenders.
Over a two-year time period when money was being fraudulently obtained from a lender, Rubashkin funneled about $1.5 million from Agriprocessors’ accounts to his personal bank accounts. The money—approximately $663,000—was used, in part, to pay for his credit card bills, the remodeling of his residence, his personal state and federal income tax, his mortgage payments on his personal residence, jewelry, and sterling silver.
Full U.S. Attorney Summary:
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/omaha/press-releases/2010/om062210.htm
Actually, he borrowed $27 million from two banks, after presenting fraudulent financial statements. And, he never paid the money back.
Re: “He did not bring in illegals, as two levels of prosecution both lost in this regard, one having to withdraw and the other resulting in acquittal at trial.”
Rubashkin was acquitted of state criminal charges involving child labor. That trial had nothing to do with illegal immigrants.
However, the state of Iowa, in a civil procedure, fined Rubashkin $10 million for state labor violations. Rubashkin has not paid that fine.
The federal immigration charges against Rubashkin were dismissed “without prejudice.” That means that Rubashkin agreed that the immigration charges can be re-filed against him at some point in the future.
The reason the U.S. Attorney dismissed the federal immigration charges was because Rubashkin was convicted on 86 fraud related charges that carried a heavier sentence.
In exchange for the dismissed charges, Rubashkin also agreed that the judge in the fraud case could examine and consider the evidence in the immigration case before she determined Rubashkin’s prison sentence in the fraud case.
By the way, almost 400 illegal workers were found at Rubashkin’s processing plant.
It was, and remains, the largest illegal immigration bust in American history.
I am going to respectfully disagree.
It looks like he was guilty, innocent motives notwithstanding.
What was the injustice was the sentence, which was clearly out of line, so much so I can’t see any reason for it except antisemitism.
Hence the commutation of the sentence, not a pardon.
Donald (which is the same name as “Cyrus” btw) made a wise call.
No one disputes that his slaughter house was targeted only after AND AS A RESULT of PETA’s persistent harassment campaign.
For those who don’t know who PETA is, while their no longer associated founder seems like a decent person, they are now the group that holds memorials for the 6 Million Chickens “murdered” before Yom Kippur, complete with Holocaust-mocking/”wanting another one” (ch”v) undertones.
Some of their other acts include encouraging parents to give their kids beer instead of milk (because beer isn’t “stolen from cows without permission”)
and, more recently, kidnapping dogs from people’s porches and euthanizing them well before the mandatory wait time for owners to reclaim them.
Linda Reade’s husband profited mightily from the forced sale of Rubashkin’s company, Agriproccessors. She was also found to be the judge who signed off on the immigration raid against the plant, something she never disclosed when presiding over the trial over the “financial crimes” (using the line of credit after an order was placed instead of when the goods were received one or two days later – there were no other “financial crimes”).
This is the same judge who held up appeal after appeal totaling a span of years, all out of pure spite.
And is she usually a tough sentencer? No, she recently sentenced a terrorist collaborator to 5 years, less than a fifth of Rubashkin.
There’s a reason why 6 former US Attorneys General, spanning the entire ideological spectrum of the nation, saw fit to stand up for Sholom Rubashkin.
Ping.
Thanks to Yomin Postelnik.
There is an editoral slant to this that does it no service. 400 illegals are 400 illegals, no matter how you cut it, regardless of how rife the idustry is with the practice. 27 years for non-violent crimes seems a bit much when rapists get far less, but many crimes over a period of time appear to have been committed.
I still side with Trump on this.
I don’t know if this guy is guilty or not, but our court system and prosecutors are very corrupt, and I would not believe anything they say or any documents they provide.
Federal prosecutors are liars who often railroad innocent people into prison for political purposes.
I don’t know a thing about
Shalom Rubashkim, but it is
common knowlege Peta is nothing
But a bunch of egg sucking dogs
What’s more to be said?.