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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. [...]

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.

“Once again, Agriprocessors has demonstrated a complete disregard for Iowa law,” Dave Neil, Iowa labor commissioner, said in a prepared statement this morning. “This continued course of violations is a black mark on Iowa’s business community.”

Two women, previous employees in the Agriprocessors human resources department, pleaded not guilty in federal court today to charges related to illegal immigration.

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.

Two female members of the Agriprocessors human resource department staff learned this afternoon of the charges they will be facing in federal court.

An Agriprocessors spokesman, confident that the state will not be able to prove its allegations of child labor law violations, said that the company is looking forward to its day in court.
“In order to convict, the state is going to have to prove that the defendants willfully violated the child labor laws,” said Chaim Abrahams. [...]