Jury says former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager guilty on 86 of 91 financial fraud charges

Jury: Fmr. slaughterhouse manager guilty of fraud

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A jury has found the former manger of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa guilty on 86 of 91 financial fraud charges.

The verdict against Sholom Rubashkin came Thursday evening after a nearly monthlong trial.

Rubashkin was charged with bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering and ignoring orders to pay cattle providers in the time required by federal law.

The charges were linked to Rubashkin’s job as a top manager at the former Agriprocessor’s plant in Postville, Iowa. He was arrested months after a May 2008 immigration raid there that led to the arrest of 389 workers.

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A jury has reached a verdict at the fraud trial of the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse where there was a massive immigration raid.

Sholom Rubashkin is charged with 91 counts of financial fraud.

The jury reached its verdict late Thursday afternoon. Rubashkin, his lawyers and prosecutors were gathering at the federal courthouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., where the nearly monthlong trial was held.

Rubashkin is charged with bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering and ignoring orders to pay cattle providers in the time required by federal law.

The charges were linked to Rubashkin’s job as a top manager at the former Agriprocessor’s plant in Postville, Iowa. He was arrested months after a May 2008 immigration raid that led to the arrest of 389 workers.