Des Moines, IA – A former manager at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse is set to appear in federal court after being extradited from Israel.
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Hosam Amara has been indicted on charges of harboring people in the country illegally. He fought extradition from Israel, where he fled after a 2008 immigration raid at the former Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says he has been returned to Iowa, and he’ll appear Friday in Cedar Rapids for an initial hearing and arraignment.
Prosecutors say Amara fled after federal agents arrested nearly 400 Agriprocessors workers on charges that they were in the country illegally. Amara was arrested in Israel on March 31, 2011.
Former Agriprocessors Vice President Shalom Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years in prison on financial fraud charges following the raid.
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I did not know Israel would send a Jew to any country to face trial. Shows you how misinformed I am.
Unbelievable!
The U.S. had no clear policy on these so-called illegal immigrants. They might now get clemency.
The above person is not the first individual, whom EY extradited to the USA. There have been other Israelis over the years, who were sent back to the USA, to face the music. In the 1971, EY sent Meyer Lansky back to the USA for trial. Even after Lansky was found not guilty a federal court in the USA, EY refused to let him reenter the country. I would like to know when EY is going to extradite Col Aviem Sella to the USA, for trial? Sella has been under indictment for several counts of espionage since 1987.
he is an arab and he is guilty of a lot more than what is said!! I know this first hand and he will get what he deserves, if not by the courts than by the court up above