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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 [...]

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.

A former Agriprocessors beef supervisor was sentenced today in federal court to three years in prison. The news comes on the same day that a former plant human resources employee pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraudulent immigration statement charges.

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 [...]

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa unsealed new charges against Agriprocessors and five members of the meatpacking company’s management team today.

Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested two more employees at Agriprocessors this morning. Although names of the employees have not yet been released, it has been confirmed that they were employed in the human resources department.
The two are expected to have their initial federal court appearance this afternoon in Cedar Rapids.

Two federally elected Republicans have made a written plea to the Iowa Attorney General’s office for “expedited consideration” of the alleged 57 child labor violations at a Postville kosher meatpacking plant.

A former supervisor at Agriprocessors, the Postville meatpacking plant that was the location of the nation’s largest single-site immigration raid, accepted a deal and pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday afternoon.

Jewish workers at the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville walked off the job today. The exact details of the walk-out and the reasons behind it remain unclear.

One of two supervisors who worked at Agriprocessors in Postville will return to U.S. District Court tomorrow to face charges that he conspired to hire illegal immigrants.