Search Results: ‘Agriprocessors’

The day-to-day manager at a Postville meatpacking plant will stay in federal prison following a decision by U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to deny him bail while he awaits sentencing. The plant’s operation manager also entered a guilty plea Monday to his role in aiding undocumented workers find work at the now defunct slaughterhouse.

Flood recovery, same-sex marriage, corporate dominance of agriculture and the changing face of Iowa are just a few of 2009’s storylines that will help shape the year ahead.

The first Agriprocessors supervisor sentenced following a massive immigration raid at the Postville meatpacking plant is requesting the court review his sentence on a belief that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling will mitigate it.
Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza, 36, was sentenced to and is serving 36 months in federal prison. Two years of that sentence was a [...]

Four local U.S. Department of Justice officials were recognized nationally at the annual Executive Office for United States Attorneys Director’s Awards ceremony today for their work in relation to an Internet pharmacy case.
Those honored were First Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Murphy, paralegal specialist Brenda Nietert, Drug Enforcement Administration investigator Sarah Boblenz and newly-named U.S. Attorney [...]

Although it might be difficult to imagine talk of potential health care reform and climate change legislation getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is getting in on the ground floor.

Producers who received letter from bankruptcy court urged to contact Iowa Cattlemen’s Association
Some Iowa cattle producers that sold livestock to the now-defunct Agriprocessors meatpacking operation in Postville have received an unexpected and unwanted piece of holiday mail from the federal bankruptcy court.

Saying that the past three years have been “an honor” and “a wonderful privilege,” the man tasked with leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa resigned Tuesday so that the office could be led by Stephanie Rose, an office veteran and career prosecutor who was recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate [...]

Saturday, the full Senate voted on President Barack Obama’s U.S. Attorney nominees for Iowa, confirming Nick Klinefeldt for the Southern District and Stephanie Rose for the Northern District. That means that Iowa’s two U.S. Attorney offices will soon be under new management.

Government asserts that Rubashkin aided flight of Agriprocessors co-worker to Israel
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Linda R. Reade has ordered that the Iowa meatpacking manager found guilty on 86 counts of fraud and money laundering will remain behind bars.

Sholom Rubashkin won’t be heading back to court to face 72 counts of immigration-related charges after all.