IA meatpacking exec facing new charges
May 18, 2009
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Postville meatpacking plant executive with 70 new immigration charges, according to a indictment made public Friday.
Sholom Rubashkin and Agriprocessors Inc. now face 71 counts of harboring illegal workers for profit, according to the 142-count indictment. Prosecutors also dropped seven federal identity-theft allegations in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that undermined those charges.
Prosecutors have alleged that Rubashkin and plant managers helped immigrant workers obtain false work papers, often though the use of Social Security numbers and other identification. The plant, which at its peak employed nearly 1,000 workers, relied heavily on laborers from Guatemala and Mexico.
The Des Moines Register (IA)
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