How Non-Torah Zionist Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a former vice president of Agriprocessors Inc became so rich and EARNED 27 years in JAIL ? Most Jew Lawyers are LIARS !!!

Sun Jun 27 00:41:55 EDT 2010

How Non-Torah Zionist Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a former vice president
of Agriprocessors Inc became so rich and EARNED 27 years in JAIL ?
Most Jew Lawyers are LIARS !!!

Former slaughterhouse exec gets 27 years for fraud
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB (AP) – 4 days ago

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive was
sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison for financial fraud, a
sentence legal experts called severe but not necessarily surprising as
judges take tough stances on white-collar crime.

Sholom Rubashkin, a former vice president of Agriprocessors Inc., also
was ordered to pay $27 million in restitution by Chief U.S. District
Court Judge Linda R. Reade, who had released a memorandum outlining
the sentence a day earlier.

A jury convicted Rubashkin last fall of 86 federal financial fraud
charges. Defense attorney Guy Cook said he plans to appeal. About 100
supporters gathered outside the courthouse Tuesday, some holding signs
reading "We want fair & equal justice."

Prosecutors had sought a 25-year sentence, but called the slightly
longer punishment "entirely appropriate."

"It is a lengthy sentence, but he earned it by everything he did," U.S
attorney spokesman Bob Teig said.

Rubashkin oversaw the plant in Postville, Iowa, that gained attention
in 2008 after a large-scale immigration raid in which authorities
detained 389 illegal immigrants. The plant eventually filed for
bankruptcy and was later sold.

After an investigation by a court-appointed trustee, prosecutors
alleged Rubashkin intentionally deceived the company's lender and
directed employees to create fake invoices in order to show St. Louis-
based First Bank the plant had more money flowing in than it did. Cook
tried to portray Rubashkin as a bumbling businessman who never even
read the loan agreement with First Bank.

Rubashkin also faced 72 charges for allegedly allowing illegal
immigrants to work at the plant but Reade dismissed those charges and
a jury acquitted Rubashkin of state child labor charges earlier this
month.

Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg called Rubashkin's
27-year sentence "dubious" even though severe sentences are
increasingly common in the wake of major fraud cases, such as that
against Enron. The energy company's 2001 collapse cost thousands of
jobs and billions of dollars.

Weisberg contended Rubashkin's case does not rise to such a level.

"I don't understand why it was a longer sentence than what the
prosecution asked for, especially when the prosecution asked for a
sentence that was already pretty severe," Weisberg said.

But Robert Rigg, a law professor at Drake University in Des Moines,
said the slaughterhouse case is by no means small, "especially for
Iowa."

He said the raid's economic impact and disruption the case caused in
Postville likely factored into Reade's sentencing.

"There is a lot of collateral damage here and you can understand why a
judge would take the facts and the circumstances of the case as an
aggravating factor," Rigg said.

Defense attorneys argue Reade improperly considered other factors,
such as the raid and immigration case, in sentencing for the fraud
conviction. The judge did not specifically address her reasoning for
the lengthy sentence, but her 52-page memorandum handed down Monday
leaned heavily on documents submitted by prosecutors.

"Here, the record establishes Defendant committed an unprecedented
amount of criminal conduct which has not entered into the
determination of the advisory (sentencing) guidelines," Reade said.

Teig agreed that information about illegal immigrants working at the
slaughterhouse was an integral part of the fraud investigation.

"The jury found the defendant knew illegal immigrants were being
harbored at the plant and lied to the bank about that, so clearly it
was part of the fraud charges that the defendant was involved in the
hiring of illegal immigrants," Teig said.

Rigg, the Drake professor, said he had tried cases before Reade when
she was a state court judge and called her a "stickler." He said she
is a "harsher sentencer than most," but not the most harsh he's seen.

"Does she take a bite out of your client? Yes," Rigg said. "You better
be prepared if you go in asking Judge Reade for leniency. I would not
envy a lawyer who has to go in and argue a case before Judge Reade
that has a vast impact."