I vaguely remember this from late night tv.
So he was acquitted of child labor law violations, not prosecuted for immigration violations but convicted of bank fraud because the FedGov froze his bank accounts?
IIRC the tv show made him look like a Jewish Al Capone.
Rubashkin Case
Judge Reade’s first widely publicized case was the trial and sentencing of kosher slaughterhouse operator Sholom Rubashkin.[2] Judge Reade’s 27-year sentence which exceeded the prosecutors 25 year request,[3] received responses from many prominent politicians and received national attention.
After the conviction, records were obtained that showed Reade was meeting secretly with prosecutors for ten months before the raid on Rubashkin’s plant.[4] Reade maintained that the meetings were only to prepare the courts for a case of such large magnitude. The 8th circuit of Appeals upheld the ruling, Judge Reade was scheduled to sit with two of the appellate judges (over other cases) on the same day just before her conduct was scheduled to be heard.[4]
A total of 86 former US Attorneys General, federal judges, and prosecutors wrote a letter to the United States Supreme Court denouncing Reade’s ruling,[5] however the Supreme Court declined to review it.
Forty-five members of Congress have written to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to ask questions about Reade’s handling of the case.
Her husband also owned stock at the time in two of the largest federal prisons in the United States, and also purchased more stock in prisons 5 days before a large raid on the kosher operator began.
Ethics experts say these investments were inappropriate and may have violated the Code of Conduct for United States Judges.[6] Due to separation of powers, the White House declined to comment on a petition with 52,226 online signatures asking it to investigate Judge Reade’s handling of this case.[7]
On December 20, 2017, after having served eight years of his 27-year sentence, U.S. President Donald Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence.[8]
A statement from the White House noted that “[a] bipartisan group of more than 100 former high-ranking and distinguished Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, prosecutors, judges, and legal scholars [had] expressed concerns about the evidentiary proceedings in Mr. Rubashkin’s case and the severity of his sentence,” and further noted that more than 30 Members of Congress had written letters expressing support for a review of Rubashkin’s case.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_R._Reade