DY, what you apparently missed was that Rubashkin fabricated invoices to fool the bank into thinking his company did enough business could support the loan. That is not a technicality. Without that it would have simply been a bad business loan by the bank.
A somewhat similar case happened almost 30 years ago. A computer leasing company used fabricated lease agreements to convince banks to lend them millions. The principals served extensive time in Federal white collar prisons.
Someone in my town was sentenced last year to twenty years in Federal prison for his part in the theft of millions of dollars from New York City ( his share was $3 million ; a relative of his got a reduced sentence for providing documentation of the fraud and testifying against the others). He asked the judge to be assigned to Fort Dix Federal camp since it has enough frum prisonmers that there are shiurim, daf yomi and both Sfard and Askenazi minyanim. He’s MO. Not every frum convict is a victim of anti-semitism It’s a sad commentary.