DES MOINES, IA — Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin suggested Friday that a past or current employee at the Postville slaughterhouse Rubashkin once ran planted evidence to incriminate him.
Rubashkin also denied allegations that he helped one of his former mid-level managers flee the country to avoid arrest.
Rubashkin Lawyers Say Evidence Was Planted
DES MOINES, IA — Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin suggested Friday that a past or current employee at the Postville slaughterhouse Rubashkin once ran planted evidence to incriminate him.
Rubashkin also denied allegations that he helped one of his former mid-level managers flee the country to avoid arrest.
The manager, Hosam Amara, escaped arrest shortly after a massive May 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors Inc. Rubashkin, Amara and two other employees were indicted months later on allegations of immigrant harboring, bank fraud, wire and mail fraud and other crimes.
At the time, the raid was the largest of its kind in the United States, with 389 illegal immigrant workers arrested.
Two computer disks taken from the kosher meat plant contain more than 6,800 pages of FBI reports, bank loan documents, and papers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
All allegedly pertain to the criminal case against Rubashkin.
Rubashkin, a former executive at Agriprocessors, “believes that these files were ‘planted’ or ‘seeded’ by present and/or former Agriprocessors employees,” defense lawyers Guy Cook and F. Montgomery Brown wrote in court papers filed Friday.
Cook said his legal team has a theory about who planted the disks, but he declined to elaborate.
The new details were disclosed in a written request to postpone Rubashkin’s Sept. 15 trial to allow defense lawyers more time to prepare.
Defense lawyers have said the new evidence and a seventh indictment filed against Rubashkin merit an extension of roughly a month.
Bob Teig, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, declined to comment.
Desperate times
Desperate times call for desperate claims.
Sounds like Cook is trying every trick in the Cook book.
bad things happen to good people
Its a fact that he was hated by lots of people from anti semites to PETA to jewish lubavitchers that were just simple jealous and would do anything to bring him down!! im sure he will get out of it!!
Just Wondering
To bad things happen to good people:
“jewish lubavitchers” is there any other kind??
Positivity, brings Moshiach.
TO Desperate Times.
Either your not Jewish or you’ve never heard of “Dan L’kaf Zechus”
That applies to ALL jews, especially to the ones whom other people only have amazing things to say about.
The Rubashkins are an inspirational family. I don’t know what happened, but I would DEFINITELY be “Dan Lkaf Zechus”
You should try it too.
me
Think good and it will be good, in anycase, we should all say tehillim, the roshei teivos are, tav= tamid, hei= he, lamed= lihotzi, yud=yehudi, and mem=mitzora!
To: Just Wondering
These days the only true Lubavitchers are not Jewish*
*Lubavitchers – people who live in the town of Lubavitch
Mesirah
alot of JEWISH meat businesses were fire against rubashkins.
for years they tried everything to get them, they finaly R”L…
I personaly heard them saying how good this was and that they deserved it!!!