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News :: Right WingJews Gone Wild: Agriprocessors,Iowa,Rubashkin Crime Family,Homeland Security Zionist Michael Chertoff,Alien Rabbis, Kosher Drugs,Guns, Guatemalan Slave Labor
As far as I can tell it appears the methamphetamine scandal is in cover up mode seeing as how W Bush,Attorney Mukasey and Homeland
Security Zsar Michael Chertoff all appear to have reasons and vested interests in a cover up.And yet MANY Guatemalans are in jail :
Jews Gone Wild: Agriprocessors,Iowa,Rubashkin Crime Family,Homeland Security Zionist Michael Chertoff,Alien Rabbis, Kosher Drugs,Guns, Guatemalan Slave Labor
......................... ......................... "I wish everybody should be treated like we treat people" - quote from apparent sado-masochistic 'Orthodox Jew' and slaughterhouse proprietor - Aaron Rubashkin .............................. The events described below justifies the resignation of our 'Orthodox Jewish' U.S.Attorney General Muckasey as well as the fascist Israeli-American 'citizen' Michael Chertoff who helped create the U.S. Homeland Security office he oversees as well as ICE or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Fitting that ICE is also a slang term used for methamphetamines in English. Since the Rubashkin crime family of Agriprocessors with their Guatemalan slave labor and illegal Israeli and Eastern European Rabbis, weapons and methamphetamines, etc.,came to my attention it was hard to believe they had never been involved with a 'securities' scam.And as it turns out indeed at least one has appeared called Allou Healthcare.While hundreds of Guatemalans are sentenced to jail where are the good, ethical Jews who will speak out in favor of them and against theiroppressors ? Are the illegal alian rabbis in jail with them ?Any news would be greatly appreciated. As far as I can tell it appears the methamphetamine scandal is in cover up mode seeing as how W Bush,Attorney Mukasey and Homeland Security Zsar Michael Chertoff all appear to have reasons and vested interests in a cover up.And yet MANY Guatemalans are in jail : failedmessiah.typepad.com...id-the- pri.html March 27, 2008 Did The Price of Kosher Meat Rise In The Past Months? If it did, along with inflation, higher energy and feed costs, if you eat Rubashkin meat the reason prices rose could be because of this $1.4 million dollar judgement against Aaron Rubashkin and his companies, including Agriprocessors: What did Rubashkin do? Apparently he 'sold' meat to the hasidic controlled Allou Healthcare – about $2 million dollars worth. Problem is, Allou distributed healthcare and beauty items and was not in the food business. In other words, Allou paid Rubashkin for product it did not sell. This may be a kickback scheme of some type, similar to the money laundering scheme the Spinka Rebbe was arrested for. www.sec.gov/litigation/li...ses/ lr18751.htm ....................................... israeljewishnews.blogspot.com/ 2008/05/illegal-alien-rabbis-workers-maybe-even.html ''The source also said he believed rabbis responsible for kosher supervision entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. According to the affidavit, the source did not provide evidence for his suspicions about the rabbis.'' Israel Jewish News Daily News with an emphasis on Israeli and Jewish perspectives. Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Illegal Alien Rabbis, Workers . . . Maybe Even Meth? When is Kosher not Kosher? Feds cite possible drugs, illegal workers at kosher plant Harry Baumert/Des Moines Register www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008051320080513agriprocessorsraid By Ben Harris Published: 05/13/2008 NEW YORK (JTA) -- In laying the legal groundwork for a massive raid of the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse, federal authorities cited claims that illegal narcotics production took place at the factory and hundreds of illegal immigrants were employed there, including several of the rabbis responsible for kosher supervision. The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the raid Monday at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa. Agents arrested 390 workers in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement called the largest raid of its kind in U.S. history. The raid, which required federal authorities to rent an expansive fairground in nearby Waterloo to house detainees, prompted the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa to temporarily relocate judges and court personnel to the site because the facilities in Cedar Rapids and Sioux City were inadequate. "There have been other operations where more people have been arrested," Tim Counts, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman, told JTA. "But as far as we can determine, this is the largest single-site operation as far as number of arrests go." The raid follows a six-month investigation involving more than a dozen federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, and the departments of labor and agriculture. Three Israelis and four Ukrainians were among the detainees held on charges of being in the country illegally, Counts said. Officials are expected to bring criminal charges against some of the detainees as well, most of whom are from Guatemala and Mexico. Agriprocessors said in a statement Tuesday that it "takes the immigration laws seriously" and intended to "continue to cooperate with the government in its investigation." "Agriprocessors will also inquire further into the circumstances that led to these events," the company said. "We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families whose lives were disrupted and wish them the best. We are deeply committed to meeting the needs of all of our customers and are operating again today." In the affidavit filed as part of the 60-page application for a search warrant, additional details were revealed of the government's investigation of Agriprocessors, a company that has been beset by numerous allegations of health and safety violations, mistreating workers and using controversial slaughter practices. According to the document, a former supervisor at the plant -- identified only as Source #1 -- told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. The source also said he believed rabbis responsible for kosher supervision entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. According to the affidavit, the source did not provide evidence for his suspicions about the rabbis. Source #1 also claimed to have discovered active production of the drug methamphetamine at the plant and reported incidents of weapons being carried there. Methamphetamine, more commonly known as crystal meth, is Illegal in the United States. The popular nightclub drug gives users a sense of energy and euphoria that can last for hours. Agriprocessors employees told investigators that sometimes they were required to work nighttime shifts of 12 hours or more........ Founded by Brooklyn butcher Aaron Rubashkin,Agriprocessors produces kosher meat and poultry marketed under the labels Aaron's Best and Rubashkin's. The firm gained national attention in 2000 with the publication of the book "Postville," which described the tensions between the company and the local community. The company has attracted a significant population of Orthodox Jews to a rural pocket of northeast Iowa......... If the company turns out to be criminally liable, Genack said, that could be grounds for losing its kosher certification. Genack said he was told by the plant's supervising rabbi that two foreign rabbis working at the plant had failed to renew their work permits when they expired a few weeks ago. He described the issue as a "technical" violation and insisted the two rabbis had not been detained. Much of the information the government collected appears to have come from former employees of Agriprocessors who were detained by police on unrelated charges. Sources related similar stories of presenting fraudulent documents and Social Security numbers when seeking employment with the company. Several said they were aware of undocumented workers employed at the plant that were paid by supervisors in cash. The affidavit says the government has probable cause to believe that an Agriprocessors supervisor assisted workers in acquiring fake documents in exchange for a cut of the proceeds. Federal investigators provided documentation for a former Agriprocessors employee, identified in the affidavit as Source #7, for the purpose of gaining employment at the plant. Once hired, the source reported on rabbis who insulted the workers and threw meat at them. In one alleged instance, a "Hasidic Jew" duct-taped a worker's eyes and then hit him with a meat hook, "apparently not causing serious injuries.".......... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has clandestinely videotaped a controversial slaughter practice used at the plant..... ............................................................... ''The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets'' - quote from Baron Rothschild around the time of the French Revolution,(Apparently also when there is 'un-kosher'blood on the meat and in the street if you follow the example of Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin.Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin beats his meat....Is that 'kosher'?) .......................... As another example of the war and securities fraud of Chris 'Naked Shorts' Cox since he lied thousands of Americans to their deaths,is his cover up and protection of Israeli Menachem Atzmon's,et.al.,'s U.S. stock scam,ICTS International,that allowed all this to happen in the first place and that led to such political fraud as those 'Swift Boat Catpains'against Kerry that all right wing fascists - from right wing Jews to right wing Christians contributed to with money defrauded from U.S. public with the help of Cox's SEC.I'm no Kerry fan either and he's the one who should've been tasered in Florida that night,it might of woke him up. While I am no fan of the Clintons, Hillary's nemesis Michael Chertoff should be in jail with Jonathan Pollard in my opinion for his cover up of convicted,(in Israel),crimial Menachem Atzmon and ICTS International's role in 9/11. But Cox is part of the coverup too as well as Michael Mukasey.They should not be allowed to hide behind the U.S. flag or in the cases of Mukasey and Chertoff - Judaism - any longer. They corrupt and give a very bad rePUTAtion to both. Actually it's hard to believe Hillary would have any conflict with Chertoff whatsoever as he seems to me to be her kinda guy - but she does.Also didn't I come across some mention of Chertoff's connection to Cox's Latham and Watkins out law firm ? la.indymedia.org/news/200...8/06/ 218194.php 9/11,ICTS,WeCu,:U.S.Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ,Dangerous Israeli Fraud .................. And yet,'The Rubashkins collected union dues from their Brooklyn employees but did not turn the money over to the union. Instead, the Rubashkins kept the money for themselves.',according to failedmessiah.com ............................ And to think the criminal scumbag and 'Orthodox Rabbi' has labeled union organizers as 'terrorists'! He is a Russian fascist as well as an Israeli connected Jew and we know now that it was Israelis who guarded Logan airport Boston,Massachussetts on 9/11 with financing from a U.S. stock called ICTS International operated by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's pal and the Likud Party's money launderer Menachem Atzmon ! And another money launderer and briber of the corrupt Israeli PM Olmert was Morris Talansky who coincidentally was a major 'investor' in Global Technologies,a NASDAQ pump and dump fraud of the 1990's, whose In Flight Entertainment Network was implicated in the short circuiting of the Swissair 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia on September 2,1998 that caused its 'black box to conveniently disconnect just before the crash so no flight data could be gathered. The Swissair 111 fell into so many pieces everyone on board was killed including many U.N. employees! I'm not saying Talansky and gang were planning the crash - only that I KNOW Global Technologies was,besides being a securities(stock)fraud, quiet possibly a securty(safety) fraud as well - just like the Israeli stock fraud ICTS International that allowed Mohamed Atta and gang to board American and United Airlines at Logan Boston airport on 9/11 was a stock fraud,(and perhaps something much more sinister)...... I regret that the right wing fascists that the Clinton and Bush regimes have allowed to operate in the U.S. for years not only harms Americans (as well as Mexicans and Guatemalans, etc.),but also harms American Jews who should NOT SIT SILENT NOR DEFEND THIS RABBLE BUT DEMAND INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF THE RUSSIAN-JEWISH MAFIA ! After all it was lesser known Bush brother,Marvin,who was in 'business' with Kuwaiti Al Sabah royalty in the scam called Securacom of the Kuwait American company or Bush-Al Sabah company that held contracts to guard both the WTC as well as Dulles Airport for years before and until 9/11 ! Both ICTS International were stock frauds incorporated in the U.S. that defrauded American investors all with Bill Clinton's apparent bleesing !And ICTS International was practically an arm of the Israeli government and Mossad ! - Tony Ryals Sunday, May 18, 2008 My Crystal Meth Was Blessed By Rabbis! posted by Liberal White Boy La Kosher Nostra Busted In Iowa... Brooklyn Curly Heads Under Investigation! Rabbis Blessing More Than Hot Dogs At Postville, Meat Packing Plant! The Rubashkin's both Aaron and his son, Rabbi Sholom have some problems and a good deal of explaining to do. Here are a few of those problems. Some eighty percent of their employees were in the country illegally. This includes a number of Jewish Rabbi ice backs(Guatemalans and Mexicans who cross our southern border are refered to deroatorily as 'wet backs') smuggled in from Canada apparently to bless Agriprocessor's methamphetamine production. Many of the employees at Aaron's Best Kosher animal torture sweatshops were children. Not only were its employees and children illegal(they)were exploited to the maximum extent possible. Illegals were paid less than Iowa minimum wage. Then of course they were required to rent the slum properties of their...plant supervisors. But financial abuse was not the only abuse these poor people suffered. A Guatemalan worker was reportedly tied with duct tape and beaten with an ice hook. What? That's illegal? (Jewish) settlers do that sort of stuff all the time to Palestinians in the West Bank, it's no problem. The only real surprise to many of us was that Rubashkin's Postville Plant was producing methamphetamine. Did the Government get this part right? We of course thought that La Kosher Nostra/Mossad would be producing exstasy at this facility. Every one knows that Israeli's are the number one importers of exstasy in the United States....... Posted by Liberal White Boy homo-sapien-underground.blogspot.com/ ........................ Background news articles: consumerist.com/tag/Federal-bust/?i=5009511&t=immigration-raid-reveals-m Immigration Raid Reveals Meth Lab At Nation's Largest Kosher Meat Plant According to KCRG, officials discovered a methamphetamine lab within the AgriProcessors meat processing facility in Postville, Iowa during a large-scale immigration raid. 389 arrests were made by federal agencies from what is thought to be one of the largest immigration enforcement actions ever taken in the United States. Details, inside... AgriProcessors, founded by Aaron Rubashkin, an Hasidic Orthodox Jewish butcher and rabbi from Brooklyn, supplies over half the kosher meat sold in the United States. On May 12th agents executed criminal search warrants for aggravated identity theft and the use of fraudulent Social Security numbers. There were 697 warrants and 389 arrests. Currently, officials aren't certain as to who exactly was operating the meth lab. One former plant supervisor alleged that over 80% of the floor employees were illegal aliens from Mexico, Guatemala and Eastern Europe. Additionally 3 of their rabbis, whose job it is to supervise the kosher slaughter of livestock, were Israelis who were also illegally employed. ........................ Raid on Kosher Slaughterhouse Sparks Fears of Meat Shortage Immigration Bust Leaves Plant With Skeleton Staff By Marissa Brostoff Thu. May 15, 2008 On May 12, The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement stormed the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, detaining nearly 400 of the slaughterhouse's 968 employees and prompting others to go into hiding. According to The Des Moines Register, 154 of those arrested in the raid have been charged with criminal offenses relating to identity theft. Most of those taken into custody come from Guatemala or Mexico;a few are from Eastern Europe or Israel......... Among the allegations in an affidavit released by ICE was that some AgriProcessors workers bought and sold weapons at work.The affidavit also included allegations from sources at the plant that employees were running a methamphetamine lab on AgriProcessors premises, that a supervisor struck an employee with a meat hook and that undocumented workers were receiving significantly less than minimum wage.......... -------------------------------------------------------- Largest Immigration Raid In US History Agriprocessors, Postville, Iowa, 5-12-08 At least fifteen federal and state agencies raided Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa on Monday, May 12, 2008. More than 300 illegal workers were arrested. As many as 400 more may be arrested in the coming days. At the same time, a US Department of Labor--"Iowa Department of Labor investigation came to light. Rubashkin and Agriprocessors is under investigation for numerous alleged violations of labor law, including alleged violations of child labor laws. Agriprocessors is alleged to have paid illegal workers $5 per hour to start and $6 per hour after three months, both figures well below legal minimum wage. ........................... ......................... www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/02/national/main4143701.shtml No Employers Charged In Immigration Bust Almost 400 Illegal Immigrant Workers Arrested, But Still No Managers Facing Charges DES MOINES, Iowa, June 2, 2008 Send this story via emailE-Mail Story (AP) After the biggest immigration raid in U.S. history, hundreds of workers have been sentenced but not one company official as yet faces any charges - something critics say is typical of a federal government that is tough on employees but easy on owners. Worker advocates and lawmakers say the fact that nearly 400 workers were arrested in the May 12 raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville - or more than one-third of the total number of employees - proves that company officials must have known they were hiring illegal immigrants. ...................................... Jews Gone Wild:Guatemalan workers treated like cattle or Palestinians by 'Orthodox Jews' while illegal Israeli or Russian 'orthodox jews' and rabbis go free after operating a VERY ILLEGAL methamphetamine operation using Agriprocessors as a cover.Why didn't our Isaeli-American 'Homeland Security Secretary' and Orthodox Jew U.S. Attorney General Mukasey know what was going on !?In fact as I pointed out recently, Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff who is more Israeli than American has been promoting another Israeli airport security fraud called WeCu(for 'We See you') - even though he and 'Orthodox Jew' and U.S. Attorney General and NY Judge Albert Hellerstein have been in cover up mode for years to protect the Israeli government connected criminals of ICTS International who allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place by allowing the flights that hit the WTC to take off from Logan Airport on 911 in the first place ! True,however,that the Iowa cattle yard imprisonment of the Guatemalan laborers was probably better than the conditions suffered in substandard housing rented to them by the Russian Jewish oppressors.: www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/05/16/news/top_story/doc482d602e8d45b62 Friday, May 16, 2008 7:21 AM CDT Guatemalan consulate 'satisfied' with treatment of detainees By JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD, Courier Staff Writer WATERLOO — A representative from the Guatemalan consulate in Chicago called Monday's immigration raid at Agriprocessors in Postville frightening, but said conditions inside National Cattle Congress are humane. Gustavo Lopez, a consul general, toured the facilities this week. About 75 percent of detainees captured in the raid at Agriprocessors in Postville are Guatemalan. In a Spanish-language interview, he said the strong show of force, combined with the name of the detention facility — National Cattle Congress — has left many of his country's people scared. He said they often ask if loved ones are sleeping among livestock as they await legal proceedings. "The name 'National Cattle Congress' sounds very dramatic," he said. "But we were satisfied by the conditions of the facility. They know we are watching."........... Attorneys have complained they weren't allowed access to the detention center until Tuesday evening..... Lopez planned to alleviate some fears and complaints coming from St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Postville during a visit to the church Thursday evening. Hundreds of Guatemalans have been staying there since Monday...... People in the church have also complained of not hearing from detained loved ones. Lopez said he saw a list that showed 150 people who had made calls. Some detainees have opted not to use the phones when they are informed the calls may be traced or monitored, he said. ........................... Aaron Rubashkin Owns 10% to 20% of Postville, Iowa Real Estate When researching the Rubashkin - Allou connection, I learned Nevel, Aaron Rubashkin real estate company, is said to own 10% to 20% of Postville, Iowa's housing stock, making him the city's largest employer and largest landowner. He would also appear to be its biggest landlord, as well.-failedmessiah.com ................... failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/06/breaking-rubash.html June 05, 2008 BREAKING! Rubashkin Hires Former US Attorney As "Chief Compliance Officer" In response to the massive immigration raid and ongoing investigations by state and federal agencies inot alleged illegal activities by the company, Agriprocessors today hired former Missouri U.S. Attorney Jim Martin to oversee the company's compliance with… ................................. ................. failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/06/rca-believe-rub.html June 03, 2008 RCA(Rabbinical Council of America): Believe Rubashkin, Not Workers, Not Evidence As you read this new RCA "policy statement" issued today, keep in mind that as of early last week almost 300 of those arrested at Agriprocessors in the largest immigration raid in US history had already pleaded guilty or been convicted. And realize these pleas and convictions are nowhere mentioned in the RCA's statement: www.rabbis.org/news/article.cfm?id=105319 .............................................. While I say 'crime family' based upon news reports from New York to Iowa and the previously convicted jewish 'godfather', Moshe Rubashkin, who presides over this criminal Hasidic Jew enterprise supported by innumerable fundamentalist Jews - the sad truth is that this scumbag and his sons are actually admired by Jewish Hassidic community in New York ,(even though his allegiance to Israel or even his native Russia is no doubt greater than to the U.S. and W Bush regime whose allegiance he has bought with blood money - both the cattle he inhumanely slaughters as well as the Americans whose money he has taken and Guatemalan and Mexica slave labor and blood,sweat and tears he and they gorge themselves upon like the parasitic vampires they are. ''He was indicted in September 2007 along with one of his sons for a scheme to avoid paying taxes and upkeep on a large industrial property he had abandoned in Allentown, PA. That scheme was first reported here in 2005. That property burned in several suspicious fires and in at least one arson. Moshe Rubashkin left hazardous, highly flammable chemicals at the site, located in a residential area.'' quote from failedmessiah.com ......................... Now what will our scumbag 'Orthodox Jews',(while I call them scumbags I don't call them 'Orthodox Jews' it's the title they choose to go by and thus give Judaism an increasingly bad rep which I guess it deserves), i.e.-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S.Attorney General Michael Mukasey(who lit a White House Menorah with the Rubashkin crime family last year) do about those slimy(and illegal) 'Orthodox' Jewish rabbis(from both Isael and Russia) who bless the putrid meat at Agriprocessors of Iowa run by the Hassidic New York Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his criminally inclined sons in Iowa ? In investigating this somewhat hushed up or censored story(certainly not reported by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News that loves to stir up hatred against illegals(as long as they are NOT jewish or israeliillegals),I have discovered that while those in charge get a stay out of jail pass from the W Bush regime and the criminal American Jews I just named above) - they are the real villains and criminals - not their Guatemalan, Mexican slave labor ! It was NOT the Guatemalans who brought illegal weapons onto the property in Postville,Iowa - it was the 'management' - 'Othodox Jews', both Israeli and Russian or so it would appear ! W Bush - post 9/11 - lets Israeli influenced Russian Jews run drugs and keep unauthorised weapons at a 'kosher' meat packing and butchering plant with illegal rabbis to 'bless' their foul products !And if Russia wanted spies or even sabateurs planted in America thse 'Orthodox Russian Jews' would be a good choice.) It WAS NOT Guatemalans who built and operated a methamphetaime lab on the premises of this filthy 'kosher' meat packing plant either - it was Jews - or more so - Russians and Israelis who did that ! The Bush crime family has created enough problems pandering to the likes of the bin Laden family,Adnan Kashoggi and their Saudi royalty ! The Bush crime family has done enough damage pandering to Islamic elites such as those Kuwaiti royals,the Al Sabahs - even going into a securities scam with them called Securacom that besides defrauding American investors,failed in its job to guard Dulles airport as well as the WTC on 911 - 'coincidentally' just like the Israeli government connected criminals of Menachem Atzmon who were actually in charge of Logan Airport in Boston on 9/11/01! These scumbag 'Orthodox Jews' by thew way also scammed the their Guatemalan workers both by monopoly of their slum housing arrangements as well as in manipulating and punishing them if they bought automobiles from anyone else but these Orthodox Jewish scumbags ! And as I believe I said it was the Israel and Russian Jews and rabbis who had the illegal weapons on premnises and ran the(also obviously illegal methamphetamine lab on the Agriprocessors premises that no doubt our fascist Jewish Homeland Security Secretary and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey are working over time to cover up ! As you can see from the link and quote immediately below Orthodox Jew and U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey believes in very harsh drug sentences for blacks and for white Americans(if they are NOT Jewish), but so far if anything he and Orthodox Jew Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff,who appears to hold illegal dual Isaeli-American citizenship),are if anything covering up for the illegal Russian and Israeli Rabbis and Hassidic Jews of Agriprocessors and theirVERY ILLEGAL methamphetamine laboratory in Postville,Iowa ! Note despite Orthodox Jew Mukasey¿s rant below for keeping blacks who are not even dealers locked up for years -he remains silent about the Israeli and Ruyssian Jews who run a meth lab in a 'kosher' slaughter house in Iowa! www.alternet.org/drugreporter/79051/ Mukasey's Racist Threats on Changing Crack Sentencing Fall on Deaf Ears By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted March 8, 2008. The attorney general's last-ditch attempt to preserve our federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines was pure "War on Drugs" propaganda... The attorney general -- who some would argue might have better things to do -- went before Congress multiple times to try to derail the measure, employing classic White House-style fear-mongering. "Unless Congress acts by the March 3rd deadline," he warned members of the House Judiciary Committee in February, "nearly 1,600 convicted crack dealers, many of them violent gang members, will be eligible for immediate release into communities nationwide." Channeling Dick Cheney, he said, "Many of these offenders are among the most serious and violent offenders in the federal system, and their early release at a time when violent crime is rising in some communities will produce tragic, but predictable results." In fact, the vast majority of people locked up on federal crack cocaine charges are nonviolent offenders -- with one recent analysis by the Sentencing Commission showing the number close to 90 percent. ............................................ My conclusion is that far from jailing the Guatemalans who work so hard and honestly - the far right Russian and Israeli Jews should be arrested for a change and the Guatemalan Catholics who have no Russian or Middle Eastern Israeli or Moslem connections should be given ownership of Agriprocessors so thar we can guarantee our own safety.The 'Orthodox Jews' of America can find an American rabbi to bless that putrid meat they get from the Rubashkin crime family and those illegal rabbis can be allowed to immigrate to Israel(after doing to on methamphetamine and illegals weapons charges),where they will be welcomed after serving the prison time that those Orthodox Jews,Mukasey and Chertoff,ordinarilly recommend for non-Jews ! However unfortunately the Guatemalans haven't stolen enough money - in fact unlike these 'Orthodox Jews' they haven't stolen any money at all !- so they can't bribe our American politicians like the Russians and Isaelis(who were invited to the White House!) do - so they go to jail while these criminal scum go to their synagogue or back to their meth lab(or both) as the case may be......... .......................... Agriprocessors,Iowa,Rubashkin Crime Family,Homeland Security Zionist Michael Chertoff,Alien Rabbis,Kosher Drugs,Guns,Guatemalan Slave Labor ..................... www.jewishtribalreview.org/thisweek13.htm So what else is new? It's getting to the point where if the head of a big Jewish organization ISN'T some kind of criminal, THAT should be news.] Felon picked as leader. No rules prevent convict from heading government-funded Crown Heights group; he won't 'handle checks', by Glenn Rush, Newsday, March 10, 2005 "Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, new chairman of the politically wired Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, is famous for inviting his neighbors to a lavish annual Purim party. But Rubashkin spent his 2003 Purim in the pokey - serving out a 15-month federal plea deal for passing $325,000 in bad checks on behalf of his troubled textile business.On Jan. 31, 2005 - less than a year after walking out of Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey - Rubashkin was elected chairman of the council, which receives $1.9 million a year in city and state social services and housing contracts. While no laws prevent a felon from running a government-funded group, Rubashkin has vowed "not to handle any of the checks" for the council, said a source close to him. Rubashkin, 46, refused to comment through a spokesman. Rubashkin unseated chairman Chanina Sperlin, garnering about 800 of 1,200 votes in a bitter election that divided many in the Lubavitcher Hasidic community. Women weren't allowed to vote. The council's leaders often play a role in citywide politics. In 1997, Bruce Teitelbaum, chief of staff to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, reportedly worked to oust the council's then-chairman Rabbi Joseph Spielman ... In 1999, Rubashkin wrote three checks from his nearly empty bank account to Montex, a Pennsylvania-based textile company. When an associate warned Rubashkin that he needed to cover the checks or face prosecution, he replied, "So, I will go to jail," according to documents released by federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania.When he passed the checks, he was being investigated for reporting irregularities in payroll taxes, a law enforcement source said on condition of anonymity. He was hit with a $278,194 federal tax lien in 1997, according to city records. It's not clear whether he ever paid it off." ............................................ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Rubashkin Montex Mills Rubashkin was the owner of Montex Mills, a textile mill in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It ceased operations in 2000. According to court papers Rubashkin was involved in an offense in connection with his operation of Montex Mills. Pennsylvania law requires companies to secure worker's compensation insurance for their employees. Nevertheless, when an employee of Montex became injured and attempted to recover disability payments, it became apparent that Rubashkin, in his capacity as president of Montex, had failed to secure the required insurance. On May 4, 2001, Rubashkin was placed in an ARD program for a period of 18 months. It was during this probationary period that Rubashkin - in an attempt to liquidate some of the failing plants assets, wrote bad checks to himself from the company, defrauding the Banks of over $300,000.[2] [edit] Bank fraud A government investigation found that between March 25, 1999 and March 30, 1999, Rubashkin attempted to deposit three checks payable to Montex, all drawn from the account of an entity named First Choice Associates, into Montex's First Union accounts. In the aggregate, the three checks totaled approximately $325,000. Rubashkin withdrew or used most of the funds which he attempted to deposit. Shortly thereafter, First Union learned that there were insufficient funds in the account from which the deposited checks were drawn. Rubashkin pleaded guilty to one count of Bank Fraud under US CODE 18 § 1344, "execution of a scheme to defraud a financial institution".[3], on July 31, 2002, for passing bad checks to prop up his failing Montex Mills textile business.[4] He was sentenced to 15 months in prison and a further five years on probation. He was also given a fine of $233,000.[5][6] He appealed the length of the sentence, but this was rejected.[6] He served his time at Fort Dix Federal Prison in New Jersey.[7] [edit] Montex Mills fire The mill had been closed for more than 4 years and Rubashkin had defaulted on his city tax payments. The city had obtained an order for the property to be sold to raise public funds. The mill burnt down following a series of fires attributed to arson[8] that began on April 19, 2005. The original fire burnt for over 24 hours. The fire took place three days before the building was to be sold at a sheriff's sale because of more than $100,000 in delinquent taxes. The mill had not been functioning for a number of years before the blaze.[9] The Environmental Protection Agency was forced to get a court order to enter the site - which posed a serious public safety risk - as the owners were uncontactable. The site contained numerous major fire hazards including explosive aluminium powder and acids.[9] In November 2005 the local government had obtained a court order to repossess the building due to non-payment of back-taxes when the building burnt down. Subsequently the majority of the ruins were transferred from Skyline Industries to Southside Development, both companies are believed to be controlled by the Rubashkin family, according to local officials.[10] [edit] Cherry Hill Textiles In 1995, Rubashkin along with his father Aaron Rubashkin, he was found guilty of fraudulently withholding Union remittances from organized labor groupings that were active at the Cherry Hill Textiles Mill in Brooklyn, that was under their ownership. The National Labor Relations Board found them guilty on a number of charges and ordered them to pay all the back-dated dues.[11] [edit] September 2007 arrests In November 2007 Rubashkin and his son Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin were arrested and indicted on charges of illegal storage of hazardous waste without a permit and one count of making a materially false statement. According to the US Department of Justice, "the allegations in the indictment stem from defendants' ownership and operation of a textile dyeing, bleaching and weaving business, Montex Textiles, formerly located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[12] The indictment alleges that when the business ceased operations in 2002, numerous containers of hazardous waste were stored at the site without the necessary permits. After local authorities responded to two fires that occurred at the site, the United States Environmental Protection Agency initiated a major clean-up of the property in October 2005, including disposal of numerous containers of hazardous waste and hazardous substances located thereon. "The defendants were arrested and charged with violations related to alleged involvement in the abandonment of hazardous waste at the Montex Textile facility," said Susan Helbert, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Area Office for the USEPA's Criminal Investigation Division.[12] [edit] Family He is the son of Agriprocessors founder Aaron Rubashkin, father of its current CEO Sholom Rubashkin, and brother-in-law of Chabad rabbi and republican political fundraiser Milton Balkany. .................................................................... from failedmessiah.com: Rubashkin Scandals Agriprocessors, the Rubashkin family's Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse,was found to be in violation of Humane Slaughter guidelines after PETA released an undercover video showing cows' throats ripped out with a meat hook and cows writhing on the floor, trying to get up and run away after shechita. Veterinarians, large animal biologists and animal welfare experts came down on PETA's side, while Orthodox rabbis supported Rubashkin. Nevertheless, the OU promised to stop meat hook use and throat-ripping. Two years later, Rubashkin's Gordon, Nebraska plant was found to be using a meat hook to probe the throats of fully conscious animals. The OU denied the instrument used was a meat hook. The OU was lying. FailedMessiah.com obtained documents under the Freedom of Information Act that prove the USDA now allows this type of meat hook use, even on fully conscious animals. The documents indicate the USDA expects this procedure to be done by rabbis as part of the ritual slaughter, not by non-Jewish workers. Yet the USDA in practice allowed non-Jewish employees to do the procedure. In an award-winning report by the Forward, the Postville plant was also accused of abusing its employees. The plant has had its share of EPA troubles, as well. Aaron Rubashkin, the family's patriarch and president of Agriprocessors, was sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board along with his son Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin. The Rubashkins collected union dues from their Brooklyn employees but did not turn the money over to the union. Instead, the Rubashkins kept the money for themselves. Another PETA undercover video shows an Agriprocessor's representative refusing to pay for work-related medical care for a plant worker. Rubashkin also had several food safety issues, including mishandling of meat potentially tainted with Mad Cow Disease. Agriprocessors refused to recognize its employees' vote to unionize. The National Labor Relations Board found against Agriprocessors. The Rubashkin family appealed that decision. On January 4, 2008 the United States Circuit Court of Appeals found against Agriprocessors and for the employees' unionization.. Moshe Rubashkin Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, a son of Aaron Rubashkin, has his own run-ins with the law. A Convicted felon, Moshe Rubashkin was elected president of the Crown Heights Community Council shortly after his parole. He was indicted in September 2007 along with one of his sons for a scheme to avoid paying taxes and upkeep on a large industrial property he abandoned in Allentown, PA. That scheme was first reported here in 2005. That property burned in several suspicious fires and in at least one arson. Moshe Rubashkin left hazardous, highly flammable chemicals at the site, located in a residential area. Both Moshe Rubashkin and his son Sholom pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Newer Issues: Agriprocessors Refuses To Bargain With Union " Union Wins In Court Agriprocessors hired illegal aliens along with documented workers. When those workers voted to to unionize in September 2005, Rubashkin claimed the illegals were not "employees" protected by the National Labor Relations Act (because they are illegals) and therefore rejected the vote to unionize, claiming a majority of union voters were illegals and therefore not "employees." Rubashkin refused to bargain with the union or recognize the vote.............. In February 2008, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union issued a report on massive health and safety violations at Rubashkin's Nebraska plant, Local Pride, LLC, based on USDA documents received by the union through the freedom of information act. The union also released a letter from four US Congressmen written to the acting USDA Secretary about Agriprocessors many health, safety and humane slaughter violations. Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin responded to the union's report by claiming the union was terrorizing Agriprocessors because for the past three years its employees had refused to unionize. Rubashkin failed to mention the NLRB decision and court case that found that Agriprocessors had illegally restrained employees from unionizing by discarding election results that included votes from undocumented workers. Early in January of 2008, Agriprocessors lost its legal fight against the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. Salmonella Using the Freedom of Information Act, Food and Water Watch was able to compile a list of the worst slaughterhouses in America for salmonella,the bacteria that causes most food born infection in the US. Rubashkin-owned Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa is among the worst 15% of slaughterhouses in the US, failing three separate salmonella inspections and "passing" a fourth with the lowest possible passing grade. Agriprocessors Loses KAJ Kosher Supervision Meanwhile, a leaked letter from KAJ, the Washington Heights-based kosher certifiers that were for many tears the lead supervisory team at Agriprocessors, show that KAJ did stop certifying Agriprocessors for kashrut-related reasons. Agriprocessors and Aaron Rubashkin Linked To Allou Healthcare Fraud Also surfacing was a judgment against Aaron Rubashkin and his assorted companies in the Allou Healthcare bankruptcy case. Allou executives, Satmar hasidim from Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to fraud in this case. Allou's court-appointed receiver sued Rubashkin and his companies, receiving a $1.4 million dollar judgement against Aaron Rubashkin on October 1, 2007. Even though Allou was not in the meat business and did not distribute food, especially refrigerated perishable food, Aaron Rubashkin's meat companies claimed to have sold Allou almost $2 million dollars worth of meat. No trace of the meat or its distribution could be found. It is believed the invoices sent by Rubashkin to Allou were false, and that the money Allou paid was kicked back to the Jacobowitz family, the executives of Allou, with Rubashkin keeping a percentage for himself. This alleged money laundering has not â€" yet â€" been criminally prosecuted, even though the court issued a civil judgement against Aaron Rubashkin for $1.4 million dollars...... ............................................ failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/06/aaron-rubashk-1.html June 04, 2008 Aaron Rubashkin Audio Ben Harris of the JTA has posted must hear audio from his interview with Agriprocessors' owner Aaron Rubashkin. Rubashkin says, among other things, that his son Sholom was never Agriprocessors' CEO, calling him… …Agriprocessors' "Vice President." Ben Harris also posted audio excerpts of his interviews with haredim who are customers of Rubashkin's Borough Park butcher shop. Listen to these Borough Park Jews say over and over again that, no matter what Rubashkin did or did not do to his workers, no matter how abusive, no matter what secular laws or Jewish laws were broken – they will continue to buy Rubashkin meat........ ......................................... failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/06/aaron-rubashkin.html June 03, 2008 "I wish everybody should be treated like we treat people" - quote from apparent sado-masochistic 'Orthodox Jew' and slaughterhouse proprietor Aaron Rubashkin ................... And Aaron Rubashkin has news for you… …everything you've read or heard about Agriprocessors is false. It is all one big lie: Owner of embattled slaughterhouse charges allegations are a big "lie" Aaron Rubashkin, outside his Brooklyn butcher shop on June 3, 2008, says his Agriprocessors firm "don't do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat." By Ben Harris Published: 06/03/2008 NEW YORK (JTA) -- Aaron Rubashkin, the owner of the embattled kosher slaughterhouse Agriprocessors, denies he has engaged in unethical labor practices and blames the failure of U.S. immigration policy for his mostly illegal workforce...... "Everything is a lie," Rubashkin told JTA. In a more than hourlong interview May 30 outside his Brooklyn butcher shop in the heavily Orthodox enclave of Borough Park, the 80-year-old Rubashkin was visibly angered by the flood of charges that have imperiled his business, the country's largest kosher slaughterhouse. The raid has reduced Agriprocessors' output significantly and sparked fears of a national shortage of kosher meat. A government affidavit cites claims that the drug methamphetamine was being produced at the company's Postville plant, that undocumented workers were paid $5 per hour and that a Jewish kosher supervisor duct-taped a worker's eyes and abused him with a meat hook. In the weeks since the raid, workers have also charged that female employees were offered improved working conditions in exchange for sexual favors and that underage workers were employed at the plant in defiance of Iowa labor laws. "We got 21 or 23 inspectors," Rubashkin said in a thick Yiddish accent. "Every minute the plant is open, there is USDA inspector. We got maybe 30 rabbis. How can we do something which is wrong? If I want to, God forbid! We are ethical people. We don't do no injustice to nobody, not to a cat." Dressed in a blue cotton shirt and black fedora, Rubashkin acknowledged that he was concerned the company may be brought up on criminal charges, but said he was "a hundred percent confident" that he would prevail in court. "I believe in the American system, and I did nothing wrong," said Rubashkin, who opened his shop in 1953, the same year he emigrated from Russia. Asked why he was replacing his son Sholom as vice president if the charges are phony, Rubashkin threw back his shoulders and arched his eyebrows. "For the business," he said. "In order to enforce, after such a shock, we want to beef up management -- change management, change rules, to do different ways." Rubashkin emphasized that the management change was for the sake of the company, "not for the people." "We treat people -- I wish everybody should be treated like we treat people," he said. ............................................ failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2005/03/aaron_moshe_rub.html March 13, 2005 Aaron & Moshe Rubashkin Took Union Dues From Employees – Kept The Money For Themselves In a sharply-worded decision, both Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his father Aaron (of Postville fame) were found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of repetitively collecting union dues from their employees of Cherry Hill Textiles, Inc. and then refusing to turn over those dues to the union. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin later served a term in Federal prison for bank fraud and was released from prison one year ago. Aaron Rubashkin's slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa – run by two of his sons, Rabbi Sholom M. Rubashkin and Rabbi Heshey Rubashkin along with other members of the Rubashkin family – is currently under investigation for alleged violations of the Humane Slaughter Act, was previously fined by the Federal government for failing to pay ranchers for cattle, and is also under investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. Aaron Rubashkin's son-in-law, Rabbi Milton Balkany was charged with misuse of almost $1,000,000 in Federal funds meant for disabled children. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin was elected president of the government-funded Lubavitch-controlled Crown Heights Community Council earlier this year. ........................................... September 15, 2007 Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin Indicted On New Federal Charge – Based On Information First Reported Here In 2005 The current head of the Crown Heights Community Council, a Brooklyn, NY government body controlled by Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is a convicted felon elected to his position only months after getting out of Federal prison. Now Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his 28-year-old-son Sholom Rubashkin have both been indicted on Federal charges stemming from the family's abandoned textile mill in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin was indicted for illegally storing hazardous chemicals at the abandoned mill. Sholom Rubashkin was indicted for making false statements to the Environmental Protection Agency regarding the mill's ownership. Shalom Rubashkin signed some of those statements using the name Sam Sternberg. The Rubashkins owe almost $500,000 is back property taxes, school assessments and fines on the Allentown property. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin is the brother of Agriprocessors' president Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin and is the son of Agriprocessors' founder, Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin. All are Chabad hasidim. (Moshe Rubashkin's son Sholom, also indicted, is the nephew of Agriprocessors' president Sholom Rubashkin.) The mill burned several times in suspicious fires, at least one of which, in July of 2005, was ruled arson. The chemicals Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin illegally stored there caused the fires to be much worse than they would otherwise have been. Indeed, firefighters tried to douse one fire with water, only to see it flare up and become dramatically worse. Water is not the agent of choice to stop this type of chemical fire. But the city had no idea the chemicals were stored in the abandoned mill. The Rubashkin family removed thousands of dollars of working industrial equipment just before the fires, but left the hazardous chemicals behind. The Rubashkin family has a closely held real estate arm, Skyline Industries. Apparently the Rubashkin's tried to shield their ownership of this company and flipped the mortgage of the Allentown mill between it and Rabi Moshe Rubashkin. As I noted in November of 2005: A source close to the case told FailedMessiah.com that Skyline Industries – the property's "mortgage holder" – is controlled by members of the Rubashkin family. Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin "defaulted" on his "loans" just as Allentown was about to sieze and sell the then-intact but rundown property for back taxes and fees. Skyline Industries then gained "control" of the property, thwarting the city's efforts. Soon after, the property burned in the first of what would become several arsons. Now, just as the city is about to sieze the property from Skyline Industries – which is reported to be controlled by the Rubashkin family – Skyline transfers all but the most heavily damaged parcel to Southside Redevelopment, a company Allentown believes is also connected to the Rubashkin family. Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin, the family's patriarch, was not indicted, even though he was at one point, I believe, an owner of the Allentown mill and may have played a role in Skyline, as well. Why it took the EPA to get this on the Feds agenda is an open question. It might be worth noting that the US Attorney for that region is a former aide to Republican Senator Arlen Specter, himself close to Lubavitch. This also may explain the relatively minor charges – after all, the Rubashkins flipped the mortgage to avoid paying taxes and fines, and they left extremely hazardous material unsupervised while at the same time removing valuable machinery from a building that would soon burn. One would think charges beyond illegal storage of hazardous waste and making a false statement would be possible, especially when state lines were crossed and postal services used in these crimes. And I believe other family members were involved, as well. Both Rubashkins face a maximum of five years in Federal prison. Of course it is possible that more charges will be added as days go by, and that more Rubashkin family members will be indicted...... Stories about the various Rubashkin mill fires and other stories about Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin are linked in the sidebar of this page. ........................................... By Marissa Brostoff Wed. Jan 09, 2008 Until two years ago, the head rabbi at AgriProcessors was Rabbi Chaim Kohn, who is affiliated with KAJ. Kohn played an important role in the scandal that resulted when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals castigated AgriProcessors for the practice of ripping out live cows' throats, which some say is condoned by kosher law. "Kohn helped PETA to understand that the practice did not violate humane standards," KAJ president Eric Erlbach said. Kohn left AgriProcessors shortly after the PETA scandal and was replaced by Menachem Weissmandl, who leads a small community in Monsey, N.Y., known as Nitra, after its birthplace in Hungary. ......................... www.kashrutnews.com/2008/01/control-issue-leads-kaj-to-can.html January 11, 2008 Control Issue Leads KAJ to Can Rubashkin Aaron's Best and Supreme Kosher labels to be combined by Mayer Fertig, The Jewish Star The rabbinate of the venerable German-Jewish community based in upper Manhattan, and a second wellknown kosher certifier, Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl, of Nitra-Monsey, were unable to find common ground on issues of kashruth control in the company's plants. AgriProcessors' founder Aron Abraham Rubashkin, Dr. Eric Erlbach, the president of KAJ, and Rabbi Weissmandl, each confirmed that version of events in separate telephone interviews on Monday with The Jewish Star..... In paid advertisements and prepared press releases, AgriProcessors, of Postville, Iowa, which produces kosher meat and poultry under the Rubashkin's Aaron's Best and Supreme Kosher brands, among others, had said that the company was consolidating its kashruth certifications for "marketing reasons." .................. .................. Aaron Rubashkin moshe google page:'homeland security chertoff meat iowa kosher guatemalans methamphetamines' Monday, June 2, 2008 INB 6/2/08: Massive Raid at Kosher Meat Plant in Iowa Immigration News Briefs Vol. 11, No. 11 - June 2, 2008 immigrationnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2008/06/inb-6208-massive-raid-at-kosh The suit named as defendants ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, along with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for ICE Julie Myers, ICE Special Agent in Charge Claude Arnold and US Attorney General Michael Mukasey. [Chicago Tribune 5/18/08; AP 5/16/08, 5/17/08; The Gazette 5/15/08] Late on May 16, the day after the suit was filed, an agreement was reached between the two sides to allow the 83 arrested workers who were not criminally charged to remain in Iowa at least until their administrative bond hearings are held. That could take six months or more, the attorneys said. [AP 5/17/08] Tim Junker, a US marshal for Iowa's northern judicial district, said on May 21 that the immigrants who pleaded guilty to criminal charges will serve most of their five-month prison sentences outside of Iowa. The workers will be held in Iowa jails for anywhere from two weeks to two months before the federal penal system assigns them to other locations. There are no federal prisons in Iowa. [DMR 5/22/08] Union Drive, Investigations Thwarted? ............................................ Rubashkin ............................................... DrugInfo Clearinghouse (ADF) - 'Ice' (crystal methamphetamine ..."Ice" is a street name for crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, which is a powerful, synthetic stimulant drug. Stimulant drugs speed up the messages going ... www.druginfo.adf.org.au/article.asp?ContentID=ice_crystal_methamphetamin - 33k - ............................................. Agriprocessors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIt was founded by Aaron Rubashkin. Rubashkin is regarded as an innovator in the kosher ... Agriprocessors, the Rubashkin family, and their supporters are ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriprocessors Agriprocessors is the corporate identity of a slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory that is in an incorporated area of Postville, Iowa best known as a facility for the glatt kosher processing of cattle, as well as chicken, turkey, duck, lamb and veal.[1]. It is the largest kosher meatpacking plant in the United States [1]. It was founded by Aaron Rubashkin. Rubashkin is regarded as an innovator in the kosher meat industry, bringing modern industrial methods to what has historically been a small,almost boutique craft[2]. Two-thirds of its output, however, is non-kosher and is marketed under the brand Iowa Best Beef[3]. Its kosher products are marketed under the brand names Aaron's Best and Rubashkins. The current CEO is the founder's son Sholom Rubashkin and another son, Heshy Rubashkin is also active in the organization. Agriprocessors, the Rubashkin family, and their supporters are surrounded by controversy and bad publicity. Rubashkin purchased the meat packing facility in 1987.[4] ............................................... google:Aaron Rubashkin moshe FailedMessiah.com: Aaron & Moshe Rubashkin Took Union Dues From ...In a sharply-worded decision, both Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin and his father Aaron (of Postville fame) were found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of ... failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2005/03/aaron_moshe_rub.html - 83k - Cached - Similar pages FailedMessiah.com: How Aaron Rubashkin Does Business – Duct Tape ...13 May 2008 ... How Aaron Rubashkin Does Business – Duct Tape To The Eyes, .... 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Now it appears that the Rubashkin-Balkany clan has thrown their weight behind Florida politician Katherine Harris, who is of course famously close to Florida's governor Jeb Bush and the governor's brother, President George W. Bush. What's curious is the timing of the donations. It seems they were made just at the time the USDA was supposed to announce the findings of its investigation into AgriProcessors. ........................... www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/17/AR2008051702474 Immigration Raid Jars a Small Town Critics Say Employers Should Be Targeted By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, May 18, 2008; A01 POSTVILLE, Iowa -- Antonio Escobedo ran to get his wife Monday when he saw a helicopter circling overhead and immigration agents approaching the meatpacking plant where they both work. The couple hid for hours inside the plant before obtaining refuge in the pews and hall at St. Bridget's Catholic Church, where hundreds of other Guatemalan and Mexican families gathered, hoping to avoid arrest. "I like my job. I like my work. I like it here in Iowa," said Escobedo, 38, an illegal immigrant from Yescas, Mexico, who has raised his three children for 11 years in Postville. "Are they mad because I'm working?" Monday's raid on the Agriprocessors plant, in which 389 immigrants were arrested and many held at a cattle exhibit hall, was the Bush administration's largest crackdown on illegal workers at a single site. It has upended this tree-lined community, which calls itself "Hometown to the World." Half of the school system's 600 students were absent Tuesday, including 90 percent of Hispanic children, because their parents were arrested or in hiding... .............................. thefeministtexican.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/270-agriprocessors-detainees/ I did a double take when I saw this article. The May 12 Agriprocessors immigration raid, the largest single site raid in U.S. history, has certainly come under a lot of scrutiny in the past couple of weeks. Stories of abusive and dangerous working conditions at the plant continue to surface. And of course, there's the symbolism of rounding the immigrants up and "processing" them at the National Cattle Congress grounds in Iowa. But this really takes the cake. How can it be that 270 immigrants were raided, arrested, prosecuted in a makeshift federal court (on the Cattle grounds, naturally), and sentenced to five months in federal prison…all in a 12 day period? via NY Times WATERLOO, Iowa — In temporary courtrooms at a fairgrounds here, 270 illegal immigrants were sentenced this week to five months in prison for working at a meatpacking plant with false documents. The prosecutions, which ended Friday, signal a sharp escalation in the Bush administration's crackdown on illegal workers, with prosecutors bringing tough federal criminal charges against most of the immigrants arrested in a May 12 raid. Until now, unauthorized workers have generally been detained by immigration officials for civil violations and rapidly deported. The convicted immigrants were among 389 workers detained at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in nearby Postville in a raid that federal officials called the largest criminal enforcement operation ever carried out by immigration authorities at a workplace. [...] The unusually swift proceedings, in which 297 immigrants pleaded guilty and were sentenced in four days, were criticized by criminal defense lawyers, who warned of violations of due process. Twenty-seven immigrants received probation. The American Immigration Lawyers Association protested that the workers had been denied meetings with immigration lawyers and that their claims under immigration law had been swept aside in unusual and speedy plea agreements. ............................... www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/02/national/main4143701.shtml?source=RSS No Employers Charged In Immigration Bust Almost 400 Illegal Immigrant Workers Arrested, But Still No Managers Facing Charges DES MOINES, Iowa, June 2, 2008 (AP) After the biggest immigration raid in U.S. history, hundreds of workers have been sentenced but not one company official as yet faces any charges - something critics say is typical of a federal government that is tough on employees but easy on owners. Worker advocates and lawmakers say the fact that nearly 400 workers were arrested in the May 12 raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Postville - or more than one-third of the total number of employees - proves that company officials must have known they were hiring illegal immigrants. "Until we enforce our immigration laws equally against both employers and employees who break the law, we will continue to have a problem with immigration," said U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, an Iowa Democrat whose district borders Postville. ................................... www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2008/05/13/news/top_story/doc4829cc70d392879 Car registrations, titles included in ICE investigation By JEFF REINITZ, Courier Staff Writer An alert DOT investigator noticed a number of the suspiciously titled vehicles could be found in the Agriprocessors parking lot, records state. Records allege officials uncovered a connection between the vehicles, a supervisor at Agriprocessors and a Cedar Rapids automobile dealership. Dealership managers told DOT officials they were good friends with the supervisor, who is |