Posted on 06/21/2010 3:32:48 PM PDT by papabrody
BREAKING NEWS, 11:50 A.M. est: Matzav.com has learned that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin ahs been sentenced to 27 years in prison. Sholom Mordechai will also been ordered to pay nearly $31 million restitution when he’s sentenced tomorrow in U.S. District Court.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade issued the sentencing memorandum today, outlining the sentence she will impose at tomorrow’s hearing in Cedar Rapids. Reade indicated in the document she would not impose a fine.
Sholom Mordechai’s attorney Guy Cook says the sentence is unfair and excessive and that the conviction and sentencing will be appealed.
Family, friends and supporters of Sholom Mordechai expressed outrage today. The sentence is greater than the amended recommendation from prosecutors, and is inconsistent with calls from throughout the legal community for Rubashkin to be sentenced in a manner similar to other men and women convicted of white-collar crimes. For rest of the article follow link:
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Read up on it. He has been violating health laws for years...child labor laws...hiring illegals.
They always just gotten wrist slaps and continued to ignore all the laws.
They were pretty much "in your face" about the violations over the years and nobody thought he'd ever have to pay for the crimes.
Yes, the author assumes the reader already knows all about the story.
Basically Rubashkin was the head guy at a large kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The plant was the site of a large immigration raid - the largest in US history at the time - with lots of workers deported. They also discovered lots of underage workers and some financial irregularities/fraud.
I believe the charges related to the alleged child labor violations -- which were matters of Iowa state law -- were also dropped for the same reason.
I see. So, if it was the US Naval shipyards in San Diego using illegals, that's ok. If it tens of thousands of households in Los Angeles using illegals for their house maids, lawn trimmers and contractors, that's OK. Matter of fact, if men women and children illegals stand outside Home Depot and wait to be picked up every day, that's not only OK, but the taxpayers have to build them shelters, pay for their kids education, health care, and give them welfare checks.
We have whole towns of illegals in California where sewage is running in the streets. Three quarters of the people in the L.A. county jails and most of the gang bangers here are illegals and are getting less time in Jail for assault and battery, attempted murder and armed robbery than this Rabbi.
The prosecutors didn't even ask for this big of a sentence -
“The court’s sentence today is even more than prosecutors asked for, which is a very disturbing development.”
So, the locals are "elated" huh. I call it something else.
More info here.
Yes, he lied to the bank - and by lying, defrauded them out of $27 million. His sentence was 27 years - 1 year per million dollars the bank lost due to his fraud.
We can argue about whether that's reasonable, but let's at least be clear that this wasn't just a simple "lie."
"Somebody else got by with something similar...so it's OK."
There is so much you don't know about that place.
It's such a joke that they call their food Kosher...the place was always filthy...cattle excrement making it into the finished product among many of the violations where he just paid a fine and went on as usual.
Did you even bother to look up the history of the place?
Yep, he defrauded banks out of $27 million dollars....I would say this sentence is just about right. Why all the crying for this criminal here on FR....LOL. What part of “criminal” do these folks not understand.
Nobody questions the fact that the guy is scummy and deserves to be in prison. What people are discussing is the question of justice: find another criminal that got the same length of imprisonment for the same crime.
Not liberal at all. I have seen this before though. I have a very good friend whose life was destroyed by an over zealous prosecuter and king-sh*t cop judge. Destroyed his business, ruined his life, took all of his wealth. While he beat all his charges they made sit in jail for a time anyway, while the jail house guards took turns insulting him. Guess what, he just happened to be a religeous Jew. What a coincidence.
Did you even bother to look up the history of the place?
I am very familiar with it. I just don't think he deserves 27 years in the pen for it.
Maybe it was the cover-up of running 389 slave laborers all of them illegal.
Men like Rubashkin are destroying the country for greed.
Its just funny to me because I’ve never seen anyone on FR defending criminals and being upset over what sentence they received.
And you are not seeing that on this thread either.
It is sad that people who care about fairness of our justice system amuse you. Do you care about the Constitution, the fact that we are a country of laws, not men?
I'd venture to say that his religion (even though he seriously abused it by contaminating Kosher food with animal feces) is your main/only point of interest.
Had he been a Catholic you wouldn't have even posted.
Hey calm down....this guy’s lucky he didn’t get Bernie Madoff’s judge....150 years and counting. Then there’s Bernie Ebbers from WorldCom and on and on....I won’t shed a tear for this illegal alien employing, child labor law violating, health code violating, bank defrauding ba*tard....you can cry for him all you want.
Yes, that was the point of my exercise. In all of your posts, despite all the help to the contrary, you are screaming that you have not a clue about principles. You take sides and expect others to do so. You can't see a principled position when you are looking at it.
I wouldn't want to be in the trenches with you: sides can be changed, but principled people stick with principles.
Unfortunately, you don't even disagree with me: you don't have a clue what I and other people say here.
Have a good night; sleep on your chosen side.
Wow...now that’s a high falutin’ ramblin’ on self-defense of your “principled (sic) position” in defense of a scum-bag criminal...and you’re right...I don’t have a clue as to what the hell you’re talking about at this point. LMAO
Hiring illegals, I don't like that and would like to see employers financially ruined who employ them. No problem with jail time. 27 years might be a tad long.
But here in the USA, if you want to send someone to jail for employing illegals, you have to charge them with employing illegals. That didn't happen, if your implication is correct that the judge sentenced him for a crime he didn't commit, the judge should be impeached. But I'm sure he didn't.
Child labor, similar, but the prosecutor did charge him. My understanding we're talking 17 year olds, not 8, but no matter, child labor is child labor. And deserves a jail term.
Darn, the stinking jury acquitted him.
Oh well, no problem, he is guilty of wire fraud, so we'll just lump everything in together!
That's not the way our justice system works, at least not the way it's intended to work.
The controversy of the Postville plant has been documented since it was opened. Rubashkin and his kind (Jews) weren't welcome in all corners of the community. Lots written about that. Non-Kosher Kosher food, illegals, child labor, didn't fit in with the community. All of it irrelevant to the sentencing. His sentence doesn't appear to be consistant with other sentences for the same crime, though certainly within the judge's authority.
Could be.
Yes, I know greed is destroying the country, what we need is Hope and Change. Thank you Michelle
To the point, which is the sentence, can you show me where he was convicted for running 389 slave laborers all of them illegal?
Or doesn't that matter in Rubashkin's case?
And if not, why not.
>>But in any case, employment of illegals was irrelevant.<<
BS in capital letters! This dude was selling kosher meat products to the Jewish community. He’s an Orthodox Jew. A leader in the Jewish community, no less and he didn’t put out the word for his employees to obey ALL the rules of the FDA and the laws of the US and Iowa state.
Being Jewish doesn’t give you a reason to break the law it is supposed to give you reasons to support them! I am glad he got busted and glad that he got hit with the hard time sentence.
If you support the illegals crossing the border and sucking up on our tax dollars, then you owe me a couple of hundred grand in tax dollars I’ve had to pay to support these frigging parasites.
No one has suggested it does.
The question is whether being a Jewish criminal means your sentence is based on general community attitudes as opposed to the crime of which you've been convicted.
Our system of jurisprudence relies on the latter, it's clear that many FR type conservatives don't.
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