Former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager faces new charges stemming from immigration raid

[lindisfarne]

Source: AP/StarTribune.com

Federal prosecutors have added wire and mail fraud charges to the allegations against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in northeast Iowa.
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The superceding indictment adds 14 wire fraud charges and nine counts of mail fraud.
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Prosecutors allege Rubashkin and the company, beginning in September 2007, requested advances of a $35 million bank loan by fax to the plant's largest lender, St. Louis-based First Bank Business Capital. According to the indictment, Rubashkin and the company made requests monthly until October 2008.

According to the indictment, the requests were based on inflated monthly financial reports sent to the bank. The government also alleged that Agriprocessors mailed false financial reports to the bank.
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[imdjh]

1. The anarchist's paradox: an immigration raid at a meat factory.

[prostomulgus]

3. We need to shut 'em BOTH down

immigration raids & meat factories, that is.

[imdjh]

4. What you mean "we" ?

[prostomulgus]

5. From the Meriam-Webster online dictionary:

We - : I and the rest of a group that includes me : you and I : you and I and another or others : I and another or others not including you —used as pronoun of the first person plural — compare i, our, ours, us. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/we

Here's some other examples of usage:

We need to get out of Iraq.
We need to have single payer healthcare.
We need to defeat republicans.

[imdjh]

7. We are grilling chicken at the moment. :)

[blue97keet]

2. Like getting Al Capone on income tax

[Critters2]

6. Ah, the meat industry's abuse of undocumented workers....

Just one more reason I don't eat meat.

[JayMusgrove]

8. Probably as good a reason as any.

I do eat eggs and dairy, and that is all I need to supplement all the wonderful plants and seeds and nuts that can feed us.

[Critters2]

9. The egg industry also treats undocumented workers like crap,

and does some pretty amazing damage to the environment with its factory farms. If you must eat eggs, buy from local, organic producers.

[lindisfarne]

10. I do. I get turquoise eggs sometimes. n/t