A judge on Thursday upheld a decision to deny bail pending sentencing to a former executive of defunct Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant.
In her original decision, U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade wrote Sholom Rubashkin, 50, has greater incentive to flee because he faces significant jail time for financial fraud. She noted he had committed bank fraud and obstructed justice while out on bail awaiting trial.
Defense attorney Guy Cook said he will appeal the ruling to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.
Attorneys for Rubashkin had asked the court to impose additional conditions such as curfew, home detention, home incarceration and 24-hour armed surveillance, to ensure he appears for a still-undetermined sentencing date.
(Source: WCF Curiour)
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THIS IS ANOTHER DREYFUS CASE!
We all ought to be ashamed of ourselves, sitting in our homes shaking our heads feeling sorry for this man.
WE SHOULD ALL MAKE A FEDERAL ISSUE OF THIS!!!
WE SHOULD GET EVERY TV STATION IN THE COUNTRY TALKING ABOUT THIS!!
But we’re all still shaking our heads feeling sorry for this man…….until we get to the next article of news and we forget about him.
BUT HE IS STILL IN JAIL HOPING GUY COOK WILL SAVE HIS HIDE!!
Dear Mr iknowit(all)
Please let us know it also.
How does one get all the TV stations talking about something??
How can I make a federal case out of this?
Please advise.
You know what, Let him flee to Eretz Yisroel. But they should do on one condition that he is never allowed back to the US. I think that saves the Tax Payer Money, for both a Trial and Jail expenses.
Rubashkin is another Dreyfus case, another Pollard case, etc. What adolescent blather. He has been convicted of 86 felonies and stands to possibly receive a sentence of about 1,200 years if he is slammed with the maximum on all counts. I’d certainly make every effort to get out of Dodge City if I were him, and that’s the concern of the judge too. Yet all we see here are shrieks of antisemitism. Bernard Madoff is also a Jew, regardless of his lack of observance. Nobody screamed “another Dreyfus” about him. The crimes of Madoff and Rubashkin are dissimilar, but in the law crimes are crimes, so enough already with these Dreyfus comparisons.
“He has been convicted of 86 felonies”–#5
“#5–I’m with you, but by now you should have a pretty good idea of the intelligence level of most of the people who post here. They know little of what they speak.”–Comment by flatbusher
OY-VEY. WHAT IGNORANCE!
Please, do me a favor, and read Debbie Maimon’s front-page article in this week’s Yated Neeman. You will see how Judge Reead and the prosecutors conspired together–an illegal act–to frame Rubashkin.
#7 and anyone who has been swept up by the rhetoric of 86 felonies: The facts are as follows. The trend today in white crime litigation is for the prosecutor to take the charges (in Rubashkin’s case, one count of bank fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud each) and subdivide them into multiple counts, as many as possible. That way, if jurors can’t come to a consensus on a verdict on all the crimes, they can ususally reach a consensus at least on some of them. That way, prosecution is almost guaranteed of a conviction. So 86 counts of bank fraud are basically the very same “crime” over and over again, made to look like separate counts.