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Friends, Family Ask Help Raising Funds For Legal Defense


The Rubashkin family has announced that it will retain the services of Nathan Lewin to lead the appeals of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. The family is working in close cooperation with a legal committee of attorneys including Professor Aaron Twerski, Irving Seidman, Robert Simins and Jeff Schwartz.

Nathan Lewin To Lead Rubashkin Legal Defense Team

Friends, Family Ask Help Raising Funds For Legal Defense

The Rubashkin family has announced that it will retain the services of Nathan Lewin to lead the appeals of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. The family is working in close cooperation with a legal committee of attorneys including Professor Aaron Twerski, Irving Seidman, Robert Simins and Jeff Schwartz.

Nathan Lewin ranks among the top appellate attorneys in the United States. He represented Congressmen and white-collar criminal cases, and is the only lawyer who represented an Attorney General in a criminal investigation while the Attorney General was in office.

Mr. Lewin has argued in every federal appellate circuit in the country. He has presented 27 cases—many of them criminal—in the U.S. Supreme Court, and is also known for taking on Jewish causes in the Supreme Court.

The original legal team, Guy Cook and Montgomery Brown will continue to represent Sholom Mordechai. Lawyers have also been retained to represent Agriprocessors and Reb Avrohom Aron Rubashkin facing a separate trial in the Iowa State Case. The legal team will appeal both Sholom’s incarceration pending sentence, and the credibility of the charges and the trial.

Significant funds must be raised for the legal defense. To that purpose, a Committee of Concerned Anash for Pidyon Shevuyim has been formed under the aegis of the NCFJE Legal Defense Fund.

At a recent community event, Mrs. Leah Rubashkin described the ordeals of her husband who has been denied bail while awaiting sentencing. The trials and tribulations that he and his family endure have evoked a strong desire within the community to reach out and help effect a reversal in this situation.

Readers, members of Anash, friends, neighbors: this is truly a case of pidyon shevuyim and your tzedaka is critical.

Please click here DONATE to donate, or make your check payable to:

NCFJE Pidyon Shevuyim
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Brooklyn, NY 11213

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11 Comments

  • let-s see justice!

    Maybe there wouldn’t be a need for appeals if someone of Nat Lewin’s caliber was running the show from the beginning. I will give what I can…I hope & pray the appeal is successful.

  • A light in the darkness!

    B“H ,I was wondering all along why they did not take him! This is good news and it will EY”H lead to Sholom’s Geulah!

  • Just a plain Jew

    Very pleased to hear this development. Although I am very stretched financially, I will squeeze myself to give more than I can afford, and I beg you all to do the same.

    In the zchus of our Ahavas Yisroel, may Sholom Mordechai have a geulah shlaima ukrova!!

  • Makes for a great movie

    I hope his competency is as sharp as his appearence.
    This whole case would make a great movie they should sell the rights to pay all the lawyers.

  • Daven

    May Hashem Help him in his time of need
    May Hashem help all those who are now in need of the Meat donations they received from postville!!

  • josh

    btw

    nat lewin is a great appeal lawyer. not one that could fight the case from the begining,