Sholom Rubashkin

Hearing Set to Seek New Rubashkin Trial

05/17/2011

(JTA) – A hearing has been scheduled to request a new trial for former Agriprocessors official Sholom Rubashkin.

Documents filed Monday indicate a new hearing is set for June 15 before the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, The Associated Press reported.

Rubashkin, the former head of what once was the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and packing plant in Postville, Iowa, was convicted of financial fraud in 2009 and sentenced to 27 years in prison.

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Rubashkin Loses Bid for New Trial

10/28/2010

(JTA) -- A federal judge denied a motion for a new trial for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin.

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda Reade on Wednesday rejected a motion that accused her of a conflict of interest in Rubashkin's case. The defense for Rubashkin, a vice president with the kosher meatpacking firm in Iowa, claimed Reade should have recused herself.

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Rubashkin Lawyers Accuse Judge of Conflict of Interest

08/06/2010

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) -- Lawyers for former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin accused the federal judge who presided over his case of a conflict of interest, filing emergency court papers demanding a retrial and her recusal.

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Rubashkin Sentence Seen As ‘Piling On’

Sholom Rubashkin: Judge said she tacked on points because of his “obstruction.”

But debate over whether 27-year rap will hold up on appeal.

06/23/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

The 27-year bank fraud sentence imposed Tuesday on Sholom Rubashkin, former manager of what was once the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, was widely viewed by law professors and criminal defense attorneys alike as too severe.

“A sentence of 27 years is beyond excessive, it is patently offensive — especially for a nonviolent crime in a case where the defendant had no prior criminal record,” said noted criminal attorney Ben Brafman, who was not involved in the case. 

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Judge: Rubashkin To Get 27 Years

Former Agriprocessors executive ‘lied at trial,’ pocketed $1.5 million in fraud; defense says sentence ‘overzealous.

06/21/2010
Stewart Ain
Staff Writer

A federal judge in Iowa said she plans to sentence Sholom Rubashkin, a former executive at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Iowa, to 27 years in prison and to pay $31 million in restitution for bank fraud.

Judge Linda Reade, chief judge of the Northern District Court in Iowa, wrote in a 52-page sentencing memorandum that the sentence of 27 years is “sufficient, but not greater than necessary,” to comply with the law.

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Banim as Bonim: Does Jewish Tradition Condone Child Labor?

Shmuly Yanklowitz
05/28/2010
Shmuly Yanklowitz
Special to the Jewish Week

 "Halakhah isn't concerned about child labor."

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