They were numerous and repeated. You would definitely not want to eat any product from there if you knew what they had been doing.
The illegal alien employees just brought the whole thing to a head and the fraud is what finally lit the fuse.
According to the Des Moines Register:
"According to documents recently obtained by the UFCW through Freedom of Information Act requests, over 250 Noncompliance Records (NRs) were issued to Agriprocessors by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) between January 1, 2006 and January 24, 2007."
If the prosecutor tries and convicts him on those other charges, then those sentences should add to his incarceration time.
The above applies to any American, any religion, no matter the perpetrator's extra-criminal character manifestations.
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OTOH, consistent application of a life sentence for hiring illegal aliens would go a long way toward shutting down the illicit job market that entices those criminal invaders to violate our borders.
Start with Rubashkin pour encourage les autres. Sweep the nation clean of offenders (including Nancy Pelosi?). Dry up the gravy train, and drive the invaders back where they came from!
I don’t know what health violations you are discussing here. Agriprocessors was not charged with any such alleged violations, and as an aware consumer of kosher food I never heard of them.
Here is an article by a vegetarian “activist” about the conditions at Agriprocessors. Read and enjoy: http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item2734