Video – Agriprocessors Employee Sentenced to Probation

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA [KCRG] — A former Agriprocessors human resource employee was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to one year probation for helping to hire illegal workers at the meatpacking plant.

Karina Freund, 31, pleaded guilty in December 2008 to one misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting a pattern or practice of hiring undocumented immigrants. Freund, according to the charge, aided the unlawful employment of illegal workers with knowledge that the workers were not authorized to work in the United States.

The charge stems from the May 2008 immigration raid at the Postville plant where more than 389 illegal workers were arrested and charged.