“The risk of flight here is acute, it’s too great,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan said in court.
But Rubashkin’s lawyer said his client is tightly tied to his family and the community of Postville, where he ran the packing plant for years. The lawyer, Baruch Weiss, added that Israel has a strong extradition agreement with the United States. Even if he somehow could get to Israel after surrendering his U.S. passport, Weiss said, Rubashkin surely would be sent back. “With these sorts of charges, he will not find a home in Israel, and he knows that.”
Judge Considers Releasing Ex-Agriprocessors Leader
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA — A federal prosecutor warned Wednesday that if a judge releases Sholom Rubashkin from jail, the former Agriprocessors executive could quickly flee to Israel.
“The risk of flight here is acute, it’s too great,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan said in court.
But Rubashkin’s lawyer said his client is tightly tied to his family and the community of Postville, where he ran the packing plant for years. The lawyer, Baruch Weiss, added that Israel has a strong extradition agreement with the United States. Even if he somehow could get to Israel after surrendering his U.S. passport, Weiss said, Rubashkin surely would be sent back. “With these sorts of charges, he will not find a home in Israel, and he knows that.”
Rubashkin was arrested Friday on a federal bank-fraud charge. He had been free on bond after being charged last month with conspiring to hire undocumented workers. Weiss asked Magistrate Judge Jon Scoles to release Rubashkin after increasing the bond to $2 million and ordering him to stay in his house or in the homes of friends or relatives in Iowa or elsewhere. He said dozens of friends and relatives were willing to put up their homes as collateral for the bond.
Scoles said he would consider the matter and make a written ruling, probably on Thursday. Rubashkin was returned to jail, at least for the night.
The plant has been struggling to survive since May, when immigration agents raided it and arrested nearly 400 workers.
cm
hope all will be well with him! we are constantly saying tehillim! Moshiach NOW
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HASHEM HELP!!!!!!! FREE HIM FAST!!
cher
Yidden, we must keep on davening and giving Tzedakkah! Let’s storm the gates of heavens with our hachlatos and mitzvos so he can stay our of jail!
Where is our muscle!!!??
BH
What a Chutzpa!!!!! Pure Anti Semitism!!
May Hashem protect SMR and all of us.
Moshiach Now!
doviid
it is very sad that such a great man
happy
even if he did get out of the u.s they would send him back what b–
613770
They’re a whole bunch of Anti-Semites!How can he leave Without them knowing,he has a gps on his foot from the last case, or did they forget that?
yechi monster
Letts all just completely believe in the best gam zu latova. And May hashem send Shalom Mordechai halevi ben Rivka get out of jail completly Moshiach Now Ad Mosai
outgraged
my thoght is that there should be a class action suite againts the goverment, pita and the unions. they are, by going after Rubashkin and making him close his factory, denying millions of jews kosher meat, KOSHER food on their table. to me not only does this smack of anti semitism it also is denying us our civil rights making it hard on, again, millions of Jews to aquire a basic human right (to eat). on top of that I am sure Rubashkin did nothing that was not standard practice amongst every person who runs a similar type of company. Why go after him specifically. Aren’t there anough real criminals out there? they have to go after such a big Baala Tzedoka? Plus the goverment knows about illigal aliens they turn a blind eye until they want to “get” someone to make an exapmple of. would they rather the illigals become criminals instead of working? the goverment gives illigals medicaid and benefits faster than they do americans so this hypacritical behavior is totally unacceptable. I better stop my rant here because I can keep going on.
reader
The prosecutor is biased and should be removed from the case. It is evident from this that he is not prosecuting the defendant solely on the charges but feels biased against his ethnic origins.
abe
“They’re a whole bunch of Anti-Semites!” That’s right!
How would they know that Eddie Antar came from Midwood and not CH. Just because he ran to Israel they think every Jew will.
Concerned and Davening
we’re davening hard. besuros tovos only.
Let-s be Objective
Everybody here is being completely and utterly ridiculous. Nobody is taking away how great a person or ba’al chesed or ba’al tzedukah Mr. Rubashkin is. When it comes down to it, he ALLEGEDLY did something against the law. The law of the great land we live in, the very same law that protects us as Jews. Just because Robinhood stole from the rich to give to the poor doesn’t mean it was the correct way to give charity. Likewise in this case, if Mr. Rubashkin obtained money in a questionable way, it is incorrect that that was what enabled him to do his chesed.
People are so quick to cry anti-Semitism. The truth is that INS raids plants all over the country quite frequently and people are charged and fined the same way Rubashkin is (see the electrical plant raid in Laurel, Mississippi, which was even larger than the Postville raid). When people allegedly do illegal acts they must know that it can and will catch up with them. Like others who frequent this site, I hope and pray that all of this is merely allegation and Mr. Rubashkin is completely exonerated.
www.helprubashkins.com
BS”D
I do not think the problem is anti-Semitism; I think it is the power of the corrupt unions and the politicians they have in their pocket. Had the Rubashkins allowed the union in, they would have in essence been paying protection money against the ICE raid, because according to US labor law, illegals are able to join unions.
The Jewish issue comes from a few squawk boxes like the misguided leftist Jews of the Backward, the Failed One, hechsher lo-tzedek and a couple of rednecks in Postville.
PETA is another story; they are after all animal slaughter and are trying to rile up anti-Semitism by going after shechita and kappores first. Their message is received more by the marginals I mentioned above than by the average non-Jew in the US.
Dr. Randall Norris, Ph.D.
I am amazed at the comments I am reading here! I have been to Postville several times and talked to a good many townspeople, and, even more important, the workers who were expoited by the Rubashkins. During the past ten years the people who run Agriprocessors have been cheating their workers, breaking just about every child labor law and adult labor law in Iowa, running scams in both housing, automobiles and hiring, and, in general, oprating a plant that is more or less like a chapter out of Sinclair’s The Jungle. Kosher! This guys just part of the Russian Mafia who masquerades as a Jew. If any of you have been choking or getting sick on his products, just take a trip to Postville and spend about two or three days (it doesn’t take long for the truth to reveal itself), and you’ll know why you’re sick.
And it isn’t anti semitism–it’s pure banditry!!!!!