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Feds go after Rubashkin trademarks, property

By Lynda Waddington 12/11/08

Federal authorities have upped the ante for Agriprocessors and four former members of plant management.

Agriprocessors, five Postville plant managers indicted by grand jury

By Lynda Waddington 11/21/08

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.

Former Agriprocessors chief executive arrested again

By Lynda Waddington 11/14/08

Sholom Rubashkin, former chief executive at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, was arrested again this morning by federal authorities on a charge of bank fraud.

Update: Rubashkin will remain in temporary custody pending a preliminary and detention hearing scheduled for Nov. 19.

Nearly $10 million more in bad news for Agriprocessors

By Lynda Waddington 10/29/08

“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 Agriprocessors HR employees indicted

By Lynda Waddington 9/17/08

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.

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