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A jury in Sioux Falls, S.D., returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and delivered judgment on former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M. Rubashkin: Guilty on 86 of 91 possible counts.

Rubashkin, who is the 50-year-old son of company founder and president A. Aaron Rubashkin, was convicted of all possible money laundering and mail, wire and bank fraud charges. He was also convicted on 15 out of 20 counts of failing to provide timely pay to livestock auctions and providers.

State child labor charges against former owners and managers of a Postville meatpacking plant won’t be dimissed, but they also won’t be heard in court until next year.
The case, which had been scheduled to start next month, was delayed after Judge Nathan Callahan received requests from both prosecutors and defendants. A new date has not [...]

The former human resources manager at Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville that was raided by federal authorities in May 2008, entered a guilty plea in federal court today.
Elizabeth Billmeyer, 48, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to harbor undocumented aliens for profit and one count of knowingly accepting false resident alien cards. [...]

Two immigration-related charges were filed today against a former Agriprocessors human resources manager who had previously been unscathed by the multitude of federal indictments since a massive May 2008 immigration raid at the plant in Postville.

A 29-year-old former human resources employee at the beleaguered Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville pleaded guilty to immigration-related charges today in federal court.
Karina Pilar Freund, a resident of Fayette, was convicted of one misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting a pattern or practice of hiring undocumented aliens. Documents filed on Dec. 9 with the [...]

Two human resource managers at Agriprocessors, the kosher meatpacking plant in Postville that was the site of a massive May 12 immigration raid, were indicted today by a grand jury.

Karina Freund, 29, of Fayette, and Laura Althouse, 38, of Postville, are now scheduled for arraignment Sept. 24.

The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has filed a criminal complaint and affidavit today in Allamakee County District Court listing more than 9,000 alleged violations of Iowa child labor laws at Agriprocessors in Postville.

A former supervisor at the Postville meatpacking plant raided by federal agents last month has fled the country, Iowa Independent has learned.
The supervisor, Hasom Amara, sometimes required workers to buy illicitly registered cars as a condition of work, three former workers have told the Iowa Independent. Their stories corroborate allegations first made by a federal [...]