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May 19, 2009
A Marshalltown union official who was convicted of helping illegal immigrants has won an appeal of the case and probably will not be retried.
Braulio Pereyra-Gabino was charged in the wake of 2006 immigration raids at Swift meatpacking plants in Marshalltown and five other towns around the country.
He was convicted last year of concealing illegal immigrants but acquitted of charges of identity theft and Social Security fraud.
The Des Moines Register
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