{"id":102,"date":"2010-04-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/kosher-meatpacking-plant-executive-sentenced.html"},"modified":"2010-04-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T07:00:00","slug":"kosher-meatpacking-plant-executive-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/kosher-meatpacking-plant-executive-sentenced.html","title":{"rendered":"Sentencing Scheduled Next Month for Kosher Slaughterhouse Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the last two days hearing arguments over the controversial sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin, a Hasidic Jew convicted of fraud related to how he ran Agriprocessors, the&nbsp;now-defunct kosher meat plant based in Postville, Iowa, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade announced she will issue her ruling on May 27.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors had initially recommended a life sentence, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gKOs0TaiMffuEgsBQEE71Im-Fm9wD9FD11J80\">have now requested a 25-year term<\/a>, which the defense argues still comes out to life in prison for the middle-aged father of 10. (They suggest a 6-year&nbsp;term instead.)&nbsp;As I reported earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/19\/jews-worry-as-slaughterho_n_543288.html?show_comment_id=45135968\">Rubashkin&#8217;s supporters have actively campaigned for a more lenient ruling<\/a>,&nbsp;and recently<a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/04\/27\/2394530\/former-attorneys-general-request-leniency-for-rubashkin\"> produced a letter signed by six former attorneys general<\/a>, ranging from the Eisenhower to the Clinton administration, suggesting that &#8220;a modest number of years&#8221; would be more appropriate punishment for the first-time, non-violent offender in this case. <\/p>\n<p>A 2008 raid had found hundreds of undocumented workers at the plant, which led to Rubashkin&#8217;s initial arrest and the subsequent financial investigation.The government opted to drop the time-consuming and cost-prohibitive&nbsp;immigration case after the &#8220;decisive&#8221; fraud conviction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/29\/us\/29postville.html?src=mv\">The New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;explains; Rubashkin and several former Agriprocessors managers still face misdemeanor state charges of child labor violations.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates on this story, and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the last two days hearing arguments over the controversial sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin, a Hasidic Jew convicted of fraud related to how he ran Agriprocessors, the&nbsp;now-defunct kosher meat plant based in Postville, Iowa, U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade announced she will issue her ruling on May 27. 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