Sholom Rubashk -- Prosecutors: Keep slaughterhouse manager jailed
Arizona Coin Collector
This guy has a lot of friends in low places.
Sholom Rubashk is a real sleez bag for sure.
What I would like to know is how many silver
coins was he packing in his travel bag? What
kink of silver coins?
Muliple passports.
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Prosecutors: Keep slaughterhouse manager jailed
Prosecutors want former slaughterhouse CEO to
remain jailed, noting stashed cash and passports
November 20, 2008: 11:04 AM EST
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Federal prosecutors
said a former kosher slaughterhouse manager
should stay in jail because he's a flight risk
and likely to tamper with evidence.
They told a federal judge at a Wednesday
hearing for Sholom Rubashkin that after he was
arrested last week on bank fraud charges,
agents found about $20,000 in cash and silver
coins packed with passports in a travel bag
in his bedroom.
"You honor, if you were going to leave in a
hurry, this is exactly what you would pack,"
said Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Deegan.
Prosecutors also allege Rubashkin tried to
tamper with evidence when he was released
from jail after earlier charges of harboring
illegal immigrants, document fraud and
identity theft. Rubashkin, former chief
executive at Agriprocessors in Postville,
pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Magistrate Jon Scoles will rule Thursday on
whether Rubashkin should remain in jail.
The judge also scheduled Rubashkin's trial
on the earlier charges for Jan. 20. It's
expected to last two weeks. A trial hasn't
been set on the bank fraud charge.
Agriprocessors was the site of a May 12
immigration raid in which 389 people were
arrested, about a third of the plant's work
force. The company and top managers also are
accused of violating state and federal
laws dealing with child labor, wage
requirements and safety rules. The plant
recently closed and is seeking bankruptcy
protection.
Defense attorney Baruch Weiss told Scoles
that unnamed investors are closing in on a
sale of Agriprocessors. He said the
Rubashkin family would soon sell their
interest in the company.
Weiss said Rubashkin kept cash, passports
and birth certificates stashed in a travel
bag because he has a 15-year-old mentally
disabled son who might destroy the items
if they weren't secured.
Weiss said that since the raid and the
plant's ensuing financial trouble, Rubashkin
has used the cash to pay bills. As evidence,
he showed a $1,700 receipt for a bill to
the Ford Motor Co., paid in cash.
Prosecutors also noted a December 2007 trip
Rubashkin made to Israel, and said he is a
risk to flee there because of the country's
"Law of Return." The rule states that those
of Jewish descent are allowed to emigrate
to Israel and obtain dual citizenship if
they aren't a public threat.
Weiss responded that Israel's extradition
laws would allow Rubashkin to be returned to
the United States for prosecution, and that
it wouldn't make sense for him to flee.
The prosecution also claimed Rubashkin is
likely to tamper with evidence if released,
and entered into evidence an affidavit that
quotes an unnamed account clerk from
Agriprocessors. According to the affidavit,
Rubashkin told the clerk on Oct. 30 to
"clean out your desk," an instruction she
took to mean she should destroy evidence of
checks that had not yet been posted.
The tampering alleged in the affidavit
relates to the separate bank fraud case
against Rubashkin.
Deegan, the prosecutor, said the clerk
shredded a spreadsheet that listed checks
that had not yet been posted to customers'
accounts, and that Rubashkin also took a
computer drive containing check records.
Deegan also said Rubashkin was
implicated _ but never convicted _ in a
check-kiting scheme from March 2004 in
which one woman was ordered to pay
$82,000 in restitution to her bank. The
defense objected to the exhibits, but
the judge overruled them.
Weiss, one of Rubashkin's lawyers, said
30 families had offered their homes as
equity to free Rubashkin until trial. A
nephew and in-laws in New York also have
offered property as equity. Weiss said
the total would be about $2 million, in
addition to the $500,000 Rubashkin has
already posted as bond.
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