Former Agriprocessors vice president Sholom Rubashkin remained calm during his sentencing today in U.S. District Court but before the judge came in he said this hearing will “show the wickedness of these people.”
Rubashkin, 50, of Postville, sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for bank fraud and other charges, waved at two rows of friends and family in the courtroom as he came in wearing an orange jail jumpsuit with his hands cuffed and arms chained.
“Why is she crying?” Rubashkin asked someone in the gallery. “You should be crying? They should be crying for what they are doing.”
A few minutes later, a woman in the gallery said loud enough for the U.S. Marshals who were sitting near Rubashkin to hear – “She’s competing with Dracula.”
No other outbursts were heard during the sentencing.
Rubashkin’s wife Leah and her children were quiet during the hearing.
Chief Judge Linda Reade didn’t make any statements during the hearing beyond going over the details of the sentencing.
As in her order filed Monday, Reade ordered Rubashkin to pay more than $26 million in restitution to two banks and one livestock supplier who are identified as victims in the bank fraud case. She said restitution is due immediately and if it’s not paid Rubashkin would have to pay it in monthly increments while in prison.
No additional fine was imposed but a special assessment fee was ordered for $8,600, which was paid in full by Rubashkin June 17.
Guy Cook, Rubashkin’s attorney, requested that Reade grant bail for Rubashkin pending his appeal but the government objected to it and Reade denied the request.
However, Reade did say she would make a general request to the Bureau of Prisons to have Rubashkin transferred to a prison that would “best accommodate his religion.”
“He’s calm and at peace,” Rubashkin’s attorney Guy Cook said after the sentencing. “He knows this is one stop on a long road. He’s a very optimistic man.”
Leah Rubashkin said it was the support of friends and family that “has really been the oxygen that has kept us going.”
The former Agriprocessors vice president remained calm during his sentencing Tuesday in U.S. District Court but he did express his disdain by telling friends in the gallery that the hearing would “show the wickedness of these people.”
The prosecution in its press conference barely mentioned the possibility of an appeal. They wanted to clear up “misinformation” given by the defense for two years and lay out the facts of the case.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Teig said this case was pursued because it had so many aggravating factors – a sophisticated fraud scheme, hundreds of illegal workers, money laundering, “cooked company books,” more than $26 million loss to victims and substantial personal gain to Rubashkin.
Cook said the grounds for appeal will focus on the charges, how the case was tried and the excessive sentencing.
“That livestock charge has never been brought against anyone in the 88 years it’s been in law,” Cook said. “No one has ever been charged criminally with it. I think because it’s defective.”
He also said the fraud charges shouldn’t have never been separated out as bank, wire and mail fraud because they all the same charge, accusing the same conduct.
Cook said the way the case was handled is another grounds for appeal. Reade separated the cases, financial from immigration to not unduly influence the other but the prosecution used the immigration charges as evidence in proving their financial case, he said.
“We moved for a mistrial – it poisoned the case – but she denied it,” Cook said.
Cook said the fact that Rubashkin received a life sentence, an “unfair and unjust” sentence, is also a grounds for appeal.
in England they would not let a anti samit be a judge
cant they catch and prosecute those who falsified the testimonies in the child labor trial?????
to all those yelling antisemitism- there is one solution:
come home! we are waiting for you here in the holy land!
may Hashem protect sholom and his family.
our tefilos are with him.
they are truly wicked
http://wcfcourier.com/collection_ee7e74e4-5d5a-11df-a601-001cc4c03286.html
“hundreds of illegal workers”
THAT WAS A SEPERATE CASE…
…THAT WAS DROPPED!!!!!!!!!!
AD MOSAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chas veshalem 2 -3 years it must be even less !! moshiach now
i find this horrifying, even though i didnt even know of r’ sholom before this scandal started
i dont even get it how this seems like “justice”. where in the world is the justice in this?? do YOU see that 27 years in jail is justice due to a person with his outrageous accusations??
i cant even believe it. its so so antisemitic, uncontemplateable.
what do i do now?? i want to help him, thouhj money i dont have. tehillim i say alrady every day, what next??
Is this justice? a man is sentenced to 27 years in prison because a bank lost 27 million dollars. Lets observe some obviously mitigating factors: The governments hysterical action was a major cause or in the very least a partial cause of the banks loss because its raid pulled the trigger causing the closing of the plant and the calling in of the loan. Even if the raid was on legitimate grounds, financial losses as a result of the raid are not the sole responsibility of the company, as the government could have chosen a method which would have protected… Read more »
read kapital 109 for the judge
Fraud is when someone takes money without the intent of paying back and for purposes other than intended. The money borrowed was for the business and was intended to be paid back. For a good article about this miscarriage of justice, read http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson290.html.
My blood is seriously boiling. If i ever meet Linda I will call her Lindy and say ‘Are you the “judge” who made sholom mordechai sit in jail? You are? (SPIT SPIT.)
that judge is such a witch may hashem punish her
I suggest we demonstrate now. If you wait a few weeks many people will out of town and you wont get as a large of a crowd.
I AGREE 100 % WITH # 16 AND 25 YOU ARE THE BEST!!
WHAT ~!?
UNFAIR
OMG NOT READABLE
UNFAIR
Dear judge u should have sorow and sadness and your familey members should ge sick and die and burn in hell
Thanx 4 posting! As u prob know Sholom Mordechai can only have 10 seforim and he loves it when ppl send him copies of sichos etc. please be so kind to send him a copy of the sicha!
kol tuv!
a shliach!
we are questioning our REACTIONS to Hashem’s actions, not His actions themselves. Our our reactions and our actions enough?? Is that what Hashem wants of us? Or is the message being driven further home to us so that we wake up and realize what is really transpiring here, and DO MORE and DON’T STOP UNTIL THE ANTISEMITIC BLOOD IS WIPED FROM THE FACE OF AMERICA. Figuratively of course – I’m not suggesting going and mowing down these Nazis, I’m simply saying we have to UNITE AND ACT FAST – anyone who doesn’t see a modern-day holocaust in the making needs… Read more »
he is ordered to pay millions but obvoiusly he doesnt have it. So what happens if he doesnt pay? He goes to jail? Oh wait he’s already there.
seriously what would happen already if he doesnt pay that fine? And dont tell me his wife would be responsible.
THIS JUDGE LINDA READE YMS”H IS NOT ONLY WICKED BUT ALSO A ANTI SEMITE, A JEW HATER, A NAZI YMS”H, A EVIL ANIMAL, NO HEART WHATSOEVER, SHE SHOULD DIE ALONG WITH ALL THE REST OF THE WICKED AND EVEL ANIMALS OUT THERE, SHE SHOULD BURN!!!
where can i watch it?
I kid you not. Reading through only the beginning of the above article was enough to make my blood boil. There are SO many warning signs ringing clear to us Jews – regardless of our religious affiliation (the Nazis did NOT discriminate between our grandparents and which shtetel they came from/which payos they wore, neither will Obama/America). It is time to USE ANY POLITICAL AND MEDIA PULL that we are connected with. There MUST be shluchim who are well connected with POLITICIANS. There MUST be shluchim/baalei batim who are well connected with MEDIA personnel. We MUST make a LOUD NOISE.… Read more »
We need Hashem, the real judge, who hear our cries and let go this horrible case. The judge should die tomorrow.
I am looking forward to the massive protest, as said in comment 38. we should all join since we are all brother, all one.
A massive protest is being planned in the coming weeks in Manhattan. Stay tuned for details.
27 years in jail.I think i’ts too much.He didn’t kill anyone.Maybe 2-3 years.Definentely not 27.
he won’t stay in prison 1 minute longer, moshiach will SURELY be hear by then, if shalom mordechai rubashkin had this emunah, then so could we, and he’ll be freed w/ great miracles and wonders, NOW! and judge reade will get HER sentencing! yeshuas hashem kieref ayin!
what got Frideke Rebbe out of Prison be derech hatevah? Techilim, fasts and protests- we must do the same. Techilim – as much as posible, mpre that you are used to, 17 tamus – lets dedicate it to Shalom Mordehay halevi ben Rivka, and lets protest – openly and as much as posible!!!!!!
this will definetly go down in history as did Dreyfus trial.
How can people be so hateful as to do this. What will it bring them, happiness? They will be miserable people.
Its so unjust. BUT we are all rallying together about this, it will bring yidden closer together. Moshiach NOW
PETA COMPARES JEWISH VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST TO ANIMALS. Read number 6, and read it well! 7 Things You Didn’t Know About PETA 1) According to government documents, PETA employees have killed more than 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens since 1998. This behavior continues despite PETA’s moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by farmers, scientists, restaurant owners, circuses, hunters, fishermen, zookeepers, and countless other Americans. PETA puts to death over 90 percent of the animals it accepts from members of the public who expect the group to make a reasonable attempt to find them adoptive homes. PETA holds absolutely… Read more »
I agree with #24. Can someone take the lead, in helping us all protest this insanity?!?!
What do we do, are there any protest being arranged?
What can we do?
MOSHIACH NOW we need hashem to end all our troubles
Why is everyone saying ” how could hashem do such a thing, I don’t understand hashem”, it says even when something terrible happens your not supposed to question hashem’s ways.
This Rasha is going to force everyone to take the money that is being collected for his defense and use it as a ransom! These anti Semites cant stand how we band together and get the money to help. They want us to us the money to pay back the bank!!
Soon shop lifters in America will be treated with the death penalty for their ‘hideous’ crimes!
thanx to the ‘amazing’ justice system!!!
what justice???
that ROSHO MERUSHA , ROTSEACH>Lemrick Nelson yimach shmoi who murdered a completely innocent and strange person YANKEL ROZENBAUM HASHEM YINKOM DOMOY in cold blood, is walking the streets a free man. justice heh?
Sholom mordche a yid that saved so many people in their hardest times, and look for some silly white collar mistakes, is being sentenced for life RCH”L,????
do you call that “EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL”?
(6/22/2010 9:59:54 PM)
The judge and the prosecutors are insane, but if we don’t band together and make a massive protest, we are even crazier than they are.
All I can say is that I am scared. This is a modern-day blood libel with modern-day “style”. This is the 21st century style of “Christian blood for Matzos”, except that they are using a small white-collar crime that he commited in order to persecute him.
From korach sicha, nun aleph: And this is the toychen of the fourth month. Month of Geulah, geulah of 3rd of Tamuz and 17t Tamuz: That the miracle that is higher than Teva should be drawn and change over the nature of the world. Until this reaches the level of ‘Rash’, poverty of leumas zeh and overturns it. And davka thru a descent below to a state of ‘Tzorah’ , is revealed how ‘Imo anochi b’tzoro’, atzmus yi. Shelemala mikol seder hishtalshelus elyon vtachton. So even though hashem is the highest with none higher, and trouble is in this low… Read more »
no duh and shouldn’t need to be used now either, you guys are just so extremely disgusting and anti-semtic
this reminds me of the stories of a paretz that throws his inn owners into the dungeon and they had to raise but they couldn’t b/c he was in the dungeon and he raised the price evry day.
everyone needs to donate b/c it will be very hard for smr to make $26 million in prison
hashem help us please
moshiach NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW
hand cuffed in orange jump suit what is this a CRIMINAL;??? noooooooo why do they treat him as such this i allll a mix up
May your life be full of bitterness from here on in , may you only know of sorrow and of pain , and may you always be haunted with the fact that you took away a very special , charitable, and honoarable person from his entire family and community .
Sincerely ,
Am Yisroel Chai !
P.S. We won’t stop here !
Justice for Sholom is our demand !
What a chutzpah!!!!
Hashem yishmor!!!!!!!
lemrick nelson yimach shmoi who murdered a completely innocent and strange person in cold blood, is walking the streets a free man. justice heh?
Sholom mordche a yid that saved so many people in their hardest times, and look for some silly white collar mistakes, is being sentenced for life RCH”L,
do you call that “EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL”?
so sad
When are we going to wake up and realize that the verdict is directed to every jew,observant or not,ashkenazi ,sefardi ,men woman children ,
We remain comftorble with the thought ”nisht mir meint er”
As history tells us …how quickly we forget ..
We have to wake up…
because mashiach is ganna come! RIGHT NOW!!!
I don’t get wat hashem is doing… Why oh y hashem?
there must be more that we can do to stop this!
today’s shiur tihillim.
posuk chuf dalid.
anshei domim umirma,lo yechtzu yimayhem.
va ahni eftach buch!
MASIACH NOW
HASHREM YISHMOR
“hundreds of illegal workers…”
This was unknown to Rubashkin. The fake paperwork that was given to him by the illegal workers went through many govt. offices (Income tax, drivers licenses, etc.) but was never caught. So one expects a co. to catch it?
This is what I’ve read.
Why were the prosecutors so zealous? The unions bribed them? The I.C.E. wanted to justify, to their funders, they caught a big fish?
how soon can they appeal?
May the real judge, our father in heaven, render his verdict on this machshefa!
If you have not seen the video of SMR’s son from last night…see it NOW.