November 19, 2009
Gov't: Dismiss some counts in slaughterhouse case
The Associated PressProsecutors have asked to dismiss all 72 immigration charges against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa after his conviction on financial fraud charges.
The move came after 50-year-old Sholom Rubashkin was convicted last week in federal court on 86 financial fraud charges that could bring a prison sentence of hundreds of years.
The Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville, Iowa, where he was the manager, was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008.
Prosecutors filed the motion Thursday morning, one day after a bail hearing for Rubashkin.
Rubashkin was scheduled to go on trial for the immigration charges on Dec. 2 in Sioux Falls, S.D.