Jewish Meatpacker Goes On Trial For Immigration Scheme, Bank Fraud
Sholom Rubashkin, the Jewish owner of a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa will begin his trial this week in South Dakota. The other top executives of the company, all Jews of course, are being indicted as well. Two of these men have not been apprehended, and it would come as no surprise if they were found to be in Israel. Not only is Rubashkin being tried for bank fraud, but also for a massive illegal immigration scandal as well. A raid conducted last year on Rubashkin’s facilities netted the most illegal alien workers ever arrested in an ICE workplace operation. It is claimed by prosecutors that Rubashkin’s company had actually helped workers fabricate false documents in order to employ them. This way Rubashkin could reap the profits of bypassing American labor. There has also been over 9000 cited cases of child labor violations. This is yet another example of Jews foregoing the interests of Americans for their own profit and advancement. By bringing this plant and these immigrants to Postville, Iowa they have literally destroyed the small formerly all-white town.
Furthermore, if this had been a White person responsible for these crimes the White community would be the first to want him thrown in jail for the rest of his life. But, on the contrary, the Jewish community is rallying behind Rubashkin. They have launched public advertising campaigns with TV commercials targeted on persuading the public. There has been widespread talk amongst the Jewish community on how this will effect their image. A court motion for dismissal was even filed, claiming that “antisemitism” was to blame for Rubashkin’s arrest, instead of his actions of course. This is one thing White people will never figure out; every other race looks out for their own except us.
I invite you to visit the following link and scroll through the four pages of stories on Rubashkin. You will begin to notice the pattern: http://iowaindependent.com/?s=Rubashkin
Sioux Falls set for trial of kosher meatpacker
Fraud case highlights immigration, Iowa Jewish community
Article Source: Argus Leader
The ousted manager of an Iowa kosher meat empire heads to trial this week in Sioux Falls to face allegations that he cheated a bank, laundered more than $1 million, concealed months of fraud and failed to pay livestock providers on time.
Sholom Rubashkin will be confronted with 91 fraud-related charges Tuesday in a trial that could effectively send him to prison for life.
The former executive at Agriprocessors will step into the federal courthouse on Phillips Avenue with his wife, Leah, and their children, and sit through a courtroom struggle that could last four to six weeks.
It marks the latest turn in a case that devastated the northeast Iowa town of Postville and stoked the nation’s debate over immigration.
The trial was supposed to take place in Cedar Rapids. But U.S. District Judge Linda Reade moved the trial to Sioux Falls because of pretrial publicity that she said could influence potential jurors.
The outcome “will affect our community, especially the Jewish community, quite a lot,” said the Rev. Paul Ouderkirk, pastor at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Postville. “How much of an impact we feel, we don’t yet know.”
Prosecutors also have charged Rubashkin with 72 immigration-related charges for his alleged role in a scheme to hire illegal workers.
The immigration trial begins one week after the bank fraud trial concludes.
Rubashkin, 49, has pleaded not guilty but faces a maximum 1,995-year prison sentence if convicted of all 163 charges. Three lower-level managers - Brent Beebe, Hosam Amara and Zeev Levi - also are named in the indictment with the plant itself. Amara and Levi have not been apprehended; Beebe remains in Postville.
389 arrests in 2008 immigration raid
The trial comes more than a year after federal agents raided Agriprocessors and arrested 389 illegal immigrants, in what then was the largest single-site immigration raid in United States history.
The May 2008 raid devastated Agriprocessors, which under the Rubashkins had grown into the nation’s largest kosher meat supplier. The 22-year-old plant attracted an unusual blend of New York rabbis, immigrant workers and longtime Iowans who produced glatt kosher meats under the “Aaron’s Best” product line.
The plant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and now operates under ownership of SHF, an Iowa company formed in May and headed by Montreal businessman Hershey Friedman…
Fake invoices alleged to defraud bank
Prosecutors will present evidence that Rubashkin ordered employees to create fake invoices so he could obtain advances on a revolving bank loan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan Jr. wrote in court papers.
Rubashkin was supposed to repay the bank with money from an “accounts receivable” fund, but allegedly diverted the payments to keep the money.
“By diverting the payments, the defendant was, in effect, stealing the bank’s collateral and then lying to the bank about it,” Deegan wrote…
The first trial will involve the “bank fraud counts,” which relate to alleged lies and false papers he sent to a St. Louis bank, overstating the value of the plant’s collateral, so he could obtain cash advances on a $35 million loan.
The second trial will pit Rubashkin against allegations that he harbored illegal immigrants at the plant for profit.
Rubashkin has pleaded not guilty to all charges and publicly denied any wrongdoing.
Breaking: Rubashkin arrested, will appear in federal court today
Federal prosecutors have arrested Sholom Rubashkin, former chief executive officer and vice president at Agriprocessors and son of company founder Aaron Rubashkin, on a criminal complaint that alleges the man conspired in immigration-related offenses.
The criminal complaint is the first against any high-level member of Agriprocessors management and comes in the wake of a massive May 12 immigration raid at the plant. In all, 389 workers — nearly half the plant’s workforce — were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
According to documents filed with the court, Rubashkin “did knowingly conspire, confederate and agree with others, for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain, to harbor one or more aliens at his place of employment in Postville, Iowa, knowing and in reckless disregard of the fact that such aliens had come to, entered and remained in the United States and aided and abetted the possession and use of fraudulent identification documents and aided and abetted aggravated identity theft.”
According to Michael Fischels, a special agent with the Dept. of Homeland Security, dozens of fraudulent permanent resident alien cards were discovered and seized from offices within the human resources department at Agriprocessors during the May 12 raid.
“Most of the cards were attached to application paperwork dated May 11 or May 12, 2008,” Fischels wrote in the affidavit filed with the court. “Additional resident alien cards were groups in stacks and not attached to any paperwork. Based upon common features, ICE agents determined that the vast majority of the fraudulent resident alien cards came from the same manufacturer. Out of approximately 96 fraudulent resident alien cards, approximately 90 exhibited alien registration numbers which were then assigned to other actual persons.”
Fischels added that approximately 13 of the cards taken from the offices had photographs of people known to be working at the plant prior to May 11. All but two of the cards, however, “exhibited names which were different than the names the employees had been working under.”
The fraudulent resident alien cards are crucial to the case the government is making against Rubashkin because they are a physical link to claims made by former employees that Rubashkin provided $4,500 in cash as a loan to employees who could not afford to update their falsified documents.
The former plant supervisors, who remain unidentified in the affidavit, allegedly met with Rubashkin near the barn area on the Agriprocessors’ grounds on May 8 and asked for $4,500 to help employees slated for termination purchase new fraudulent documents. According to court documents, Rubashkin provided the supervisors the money in cash the following morning.
The unidentified supervisor, who worked in the beef-kill area, in turn presented employees in that department with $200 each as a loan so the employees could purchase the new documents from a different plant foreman, who was arranging for the purchase of the falsified documents. The documents for 39 or 40 employees were brought to the plant on May 11 by the foreman and distributed by the foreman and the unnamed supervisor.
An unidentified human resources employee is quoted in the affidavit as saying that s/he was personally asked by Sholom Rubashkin to process a large number of new employee applications on May 11. This same employee suspected that the new applicants were the employees slated for termination the previous Friday, and also identified at least one of the applicants as such.
Rubashkin will make an initial appearance in federal court for the Northern District of Iowa this afternoon. Requests for comment from Agriprocessors spokespersons have not yet garnered a response.
Update: A request for comment from Menachem Lubinsky, family friend and long-time spokesperson for Agriprocessors, was returned with the following response: “Sorry, but we do not represent Agriprocessors at this time.” A phone operator at Agriprocessors took contact information, but could not provide an alternate number where a company spokesperson could be reached.
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The only place jews worry about the adverse effects of multiculturalism and rampant immigration is in their little pet country of Israel. Everywhere else, the attitude of jews is unanimously, “F*** ‘em”.
When this first broke, there was a report of this shyster running a meth lab in his meat factory.
What ever happened to that charge?
When the cops finally showed up, this fine upstaanding citizen had a duffle bag packed with 20,000 in cash, some jewels and his passport.
Hmmm, wonder where he was headed?
SPLC vs Vanderbilt black woman professor
Anytime the hate group SPLC responds to someone challenging their agenda of divide and conquer, you can bet that challenge has merit whether you agree or disagree with all of the points.
Vanderbilt professor slammed for backing film that calls racism a myth
An organization that tracks hate-group activity in the U.S. is accusing Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, a black scholar known for her conservative stances on race and immigration, of being an apologist for white supremacists.
The incident started last week when the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center posted a blog item critiquing the documentary A Conversation About Race, mentioning that positive comments by Swain lent the film an air of legitimacy.
Swain fired back, making her case against the advocacy group in a blog submitted to the news site The Huffington Post and in a string of messages she sent to followers on her Twitter account.
“There aren’t enough new hate groups 2 keep the #SPLC busy, so they target individuals & conservative organizations 2 raise money,” Swain wrote in a Twitter update Thursday.
Swain, a professor of law and political science, said in an interview with The Tennessean that she feels as if she has “been attacked” by the group.
Mark Potock, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, responded, “If that is what she believes, she is suffering from some sort of low-grade megalomania.”
Potock said the goal of the Hatewatch blog posts about the film was to “spare (Swain) the embarrassment of continuing to endorse the work of a man who has referred to black people — including the president — as monkeys.”
The film in question, A Conversation About Race, opens with a clip of then-Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign speech on race followed by words from the filmmaker, Craig Bodeker.
“I agree with Senator Obama. … I can’t think of another issue facing our country that is more timely or more important today than the issue of racism,” Bodeker says in the film. “I also can’t think of another issue that is more artificial, manufactured and manipulated. … It’s used too often as a tool of intimidation like a hammer against Caucasian whites. ”
The Hatewatch blog post described the film as a “a hit among white supremacists looking for a smart-sounding defense of their beliefs. Contrary to its title, A Conversation about Race … (is) a slick 58-minute documentary devoted to proving the thesis that racism is a bogus concept invented to oppress whites.”
Swain sees things differently. If there are going to be conversations about race, she thinks they have to include what the Southern Poverty Law Center may consider extremist or hateful positions.”The new white nationalism that I fear that I see … is not about groups,” Swain said.
“It’s about white people, individuals, thinking that they are under threat and that they have to ban together to protect themselves. My fear is that unless we create forums for people to safely and openly express themselves, then you are going to drive more young people into these extreme groups.”
read the rest at The Tennessean…..also see the great number of comments there
http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2009/10/splc-vs-vanderbilt-black-woman.html
And this little blurb about a child rapist. Next stop, Israel?
Roman Polanski removed from Swiss jail for medical treatment
Reuters reports that director Roman Polanski, facing extradition to the US for a thirty-one year old rape conviction, has been moved from his jail cell to seek medical treatment for an undisclosed condition. Polanski, whose lawyer has recently said was suffering from depression, is still in Swiss custody as he waits for US authorities to make an official extradition request.
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/10/18/roman-polanski-removed-from-swiss-jail-for-medical-treatment/
Undisclosed condition? That’s called feeling the heat from a possible jail term for raping a child.
Roman might not like prison too much, since there’s probably a few cons in there that would gladly let Roman experience the same feeling the 13 yo girl did.