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The jury is dismissed for the day. The attorneys are now hashing out some issues related to evidence presented today.

Aaron Goldsmith said he made an unannounced visit with a university professor to Agriprocessors in 2007 and found it to be a clean, well-run plant. He later brought many groups to tour the plant

Agriprocessors Mngr Bragged About Firing Minors

DesMoinesRegister

The jury is dismissed for the day. The attorneys are now hashing out some issues related to evidence presented today.

Aaron Goldsmith said he made an unannounced visit with a university professor to Agriprocessors in 2007 and found it to be a clean, well-run plant. He later brought many groups to tour the plant

He never observed anyone who looked like a minor, he said.

“The plant was an open book,” defense attorney F. Montgomery Brown said.

Goldsmith briefly sobbed and wiped his eyes when he told of efforts by Jewish journalists and other opponents of Agriprocessors to smear the Rubashkin family name. He said the critics, which included union organizers, had no long-term interest in the health of the town or the company.

“The Rubashkins became fodder for opportunists,” he said.

When union organizers notified him that minors may be working in the slaughterhouse, he told Sholom Rubashkin.

He said he and Rubashkin perceived the union organizer to be “a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” because the organizer claimed he shared the information to help the company.

Goldsmith said he rented a few apartments to Guatemalan workers in Postville, and said he often “could not tell many times the sisters from the mothers.”

3 Comments

  • chasidit

    now we know what is called a Witch Hunt in these days.
    HaShem Yishmor

  • anti union

    as typical Unions were involved hence the real reasons why Rubashkin is suffering The Union very selfish demanding etc. are probably the ones who ratted!!!

  • Rubashkins need A Good Doctor

    how do you bring on the stand a family member of a known mosser ?

    to bring a litle jewish wife from brooklyn to say so many lie’s in 2 minut ?

    Thursday May 27, 2010 10:15 Jeff Reinitz

    10:17 Jeff Reinitz: SURIA HUBBNER: I tried to get my son a job and called Agriprocessors. they said he couldn’t work bc he wasn’t 18. Then I called Sholom, and he said he couldn’t take him bc he wasn’t 18. Thursday May 27, 2010 10:17 Jeff Reinitz

    10:19 Jeff Reinitz: SURIA HUBBNER: tried with my second son. He’s mature and responsible. Sholom asked how old he was, and he was 17, so he wouldn’t take him. Thursday May 27, 2010 10:19 Jeff Reinitz

    10:20 Jeff Reinitz: … done with Suria … Thursday May 27, 2010 10:20 Jeff Reinitz