Aug 5, 2010
Defense Lawyers in Slaughterhouse Fraud Case Question Judge’s Ties to Prosecution
Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin, the Iowa businessman sentenced to 27 years in prison for bank fraud, are calling for a new trial based on the presiding judge’s interaction with federal investigators in the law enforcement raid targeting Rubashkin and his family-owned kosher meatpacking plant. Rubashkin’s lawyers filed a motion for a new trial Thursday, saying the judge failed to disclose the depth of her involvement in the planning of the raid, which ended in the arrest of nearly 400 undocumented workers.