72 immigration charges dismissed (against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Ia.)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge dismissed dozens of immigration charges Thursday against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse, at the request of prosecutors who had already won a conviction on multiple counts of financial fraud.

U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade dismissed the 72 immigration charges just hours after the government made its request. In its motion, prosecutors said a conviction in that case would not affect the term that Sholom Rubashkin serves because he has already been convicted of the charges with the longest sentences.

“Dismissal will avoid an extended and expensive trial, conserve limited judicial and prosecutorial resources, and lessen the inconvenience to witnesses,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan wrote in the motion. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Bob Teig declined to comment.

Both cases stemmed from a massive immigration raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville, Iowa, in May 2008 — at the time the largest raid in U.S. history. Investigators found 389 illegal immigrants working at the plant, which employed nearly 1,000 people.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20091120/NEWS01/711209916/0/AP0402

[liberal N proud]

1. Bu$h appointee

Judge Linda R. Reade was appointed as a Judge for the United States District Court, Northern District of Iowa, by President George W. Bush. Her commission was signed by the President on November 26, 2002. She became the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Iowa on January 1, 2007.


http://www.iand.uscourts.gov/e-web/home.nsf/65944fcb56773c56862573a30055c4f3/818cd8f8a935e5da862573a7005d8cb6?OpenDocument

[rfranklin]

2. This was done at the request of the prosecutors...

They already nailed the asshole.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. Convict for fraud? OK

But people aren't illegal.

[Dover]

4. The dirty little secret is that there wouldn't BE any agri-business in the U.S.

if they actually prosecuted these huge companies for employing illegal immigrants.

It's a racket.

[whoneedstickets]

5. Take home point...Financial fraud is more severely punished than ..

...immigration fraud and related document falsification.