Washington – President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive who was sentence to 27 years in prison for money laundering.
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The commutation is Trump’s first in office and comes following the encouragement of multiple members of congress and other high-ranking officials who argued the sentence was too harsh.
The report noted that no pardon has been issued to Rubashkin and that he will still be subjected to supervised release and a “substantial restitution obligation.”
Sholom Rubashkin ran the Iowa headquarters of a family business that was the country’s largest kosher meat-processing company.
Rubashkin was convicted in 2009 of financial fraud for bilking the plant’s bank by submitting fake invoices that made the company’s finances appear healthier than they were so that it could borrow more. His prosecution came after federal authorities raided the plant and arrested 389 illegal immigrants in 2008.
He has served more than eight years of his sentence.
Rubashkin’s long-time attorney Guy Cook praised the decision, saying his client “has finally received justice.”
“The sentence previously imposed was unfair, unjust and essential a life sentence,” he said via email. “President Trump has done what is right and just. The unrelenting efforts on Rubashkin’s behalf have finally paid off.”
But former prosecutor Bob Teig, who retired in 2011 after serving as a prosecutor and spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, said Trump’s decision to commute Rubashkin’s sentence “makes no sense” given Trump’s repeated promises to get tougher on illegal immigration.
Teig said that every court that looked at Rubashkin’s sentence had concluded it was fair, and suggested that former Justice Department officials and lawmakers who supported leniency were unaware of the facts of the case.
“The outrage is backwards,” he said.
Former High-Ranking DOJ Officials Who Have Expressed Support for Review of Mr. Rubashkins Case
Attorney General Bill Barr*__*
Attorney General Edwin Meese III*__*
Attorney General Michael Mukasey
Solicitor General Seth Waxman
FBI Director Louis Freeh
Current Members of Congress Who Have Expressed Support For Review of Mr. Rubashkins Case
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
Representative Mike Coffman (R-CO)
Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY)
Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Representative Steve King (R-IA)
Representative Jerry Nadler (D-NY)
Representative Richard Neal (D-MA)
Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA)
Representative Tom Marino (R-PA)
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Representative Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)
Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Representative Ted Poe (R-TX)
Representative Jared Polis (D-CO)
Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL)
Representative Tom Reed (R-NY)
Representative Tom Rooney (R-FL)
Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD)
Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA)
Representative Albio Sires (D-NJ)
Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ)
Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
Trump is the man!!!! May he be blessed with everything humanly possible!!!! Hoidi lashem!
Zois Chanuka! A miracle in our times!
Hodu L’Hashem Ki Toiv!
Thank you president Trump. Yonaosnw for once admit that Trump is good to the jews. Thank hashem for at least one good thing he did.
Or is it only good if african american drug dealers are commuted but us white boys should sit for the full term?
I hope now Judge Reade will fill in for Rubashkin for the remaining 19 years.
Zos Chanukah!
Boroch Hashem! To all of you Trump haters on this site, what do you have to say now? Obama never would have assisted Rubashkin.
The greatest travesty of injustice has been overturned.
First Jerusalem, now this.
Mr. Trump should be judged by his exemplary actions. He will forever be remembered, at the very least for these two watershed events.
Great News !
חכמים הזהרו בדבריכם
and people STILL say Trump is anti-Semitic?
God Bless the greatest US president for the frum Jews in the history of the country!! A true nes Chanukah!
B’H great great news!
I bet all those self hating Jews especial some reform organizations who did all they could Rubashkin to be in jail becuase their supposed Mitzvah of Tzaar baalei chayim are now in a state of depression.
Time to free SAMET.
Bye Linda Reade and good riddance of that “failed” blog.
Every jew needs to kiss trumps hand a thousand million ties!!!
Boruch Hashem!!!!!
What a righteous man the Donald is. Yes Rubashkin did something that was wrong, but the Judge and Prosecutors were no better. The time he sat was about just right to fit the crime he did.
By this act, he showed the our justice system, should you abuse your power someone else will put you in place. To the obnoxious power loving Judge Linda Reade – cry into your soup tonight. We will all be better off when you leave the bench.
Best news ever!! Boruch Hashem Boruch Hashem!! on chanuka!!!
Finally we can all see the nice side of Trump. I personally always knew Trump for a very smart and successful person but all you junkys out there got brainwashed from dirty ancors that our President is crazy. Look it takes a very smart and dearing personalty to not be afraid of making the right move and all of Klal Yisroal should show support to our beloved president WE LOVE YOU TRUMP
wow wow wow BH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! great news neis chanukah in 2017!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOM HAGEULAH for Klal Yisroel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nes mamash! Obamzer is the worst!
God bless our great President Donald Trump Long Life for him and his Family,
Thanks Hasam for giving us such a Great President.
I just sent a letter to the judge in the case Linda Reade, explaining in nice words “how wrong she was and how in cohorts with the prosecutor she abused her power”, However, now that everything is set right, I wishing her a good nights sleep. Should anyone else want to express their feelings and write to her:
United States District Court
Northern District of Iowa
111 Seventh Ave SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401-2101
ATT: Judge Linda Reade
Trump actually reviewed the case and felt comfortable to pardon even if its so early in his administration. #MAGA now we know why we are celebrating 8 days instead of seven
if not for any other reason is trumps presidency worthwhile to free r sholom mordechai
To all of you who constantly turned against the Torah bec of your hatred to President Trump. To all of you who spoke badly of him when he stood up for us against bds seekers by announcing what we all knew to be true that yerushalyim is ours. To all of you who didn’t understand why he sad what he said about va &/ or took it far from what he actually said. What do you have to say now??? Hashem sent us a miracle, do you realize how great Trump is yet? Are you eating your words yet? All Trumps children are connected to Jews either by marriage or dating them, his father built a shul, he gave money to a shul in Israel & has many Jews in his company & government. When will you realize how wonderful Trump really is??? I really don’t care because from the beginning I realized how great he was & voted fgor him. Trump fan for life!
ומלאך רע בעל כרחו יענה אמן that goes for Yonasonw, Hashomer, Maven, Kanoi etc.
If the election of Donald J. Trump was for one purpose (and up until now, that seems to be the case) it is for thus: President Trump commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin to time served.
Even לב מלאכים ביד השם has to more or less be בדרך הטבע.
Hillary Clinton doing this would have been a נס נגלה
Thank you MR D Trump , may you and your extended family enjoy a good life.
GOD bless this TZADIK our great President Donald Trump,
this TZADIK would deserve that hundreds of thousands of Jews march up to Washington and personally kiss his hands and tell him THANK YOU, for releasing Rubashkin and thank him for his amazing support to our God given Eretz Yisroel
I personally would rather kiss the hands of this CHOSID UMAS HAOLAM than the hands of so called Rebbes who spend their lives in denigrating and besmirching and hurting in every which way our Holy Land and had the audacity to criticize our great President for recognizing Yerushalayim as the capital of Israel
CHAIM.S
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GOD bless this TZADIK our great President Donald Trump,
this TZADIK would deserve that hundreds of thousands of Jews march up to Washington and personally kiss his hands and tell him THANK YOU, for releasing Rubashkin and thank him for his amazing support to our God given Eretz Yisroel
I personally would rather kiss the hands of this CHOSID UMAS HAOLAM than the hands of so called Rebbes who spend their lives in denigrating and besmirching and hurting in every which way our Holy Land and had the audacity to criticize our great President for recognizing Yerushalayim as the capi
כאפט אריין א וואדקע ווי לאנג איהר וועט נאך לעבען.
ווייל אויף יענעם וועלט וועט מען אייך ניט געבען……
The obamanation instead of commuting rubashkins sentence he commuted a traitors sentence and a terrorists sentence
trump can tweet the opposite tomorrow morning.
if ivanka ever divorces jared, och n’ vey to us all.
I can just picture everyone’s false teeth falling out on my comments. lol.
Kol Hakavod to all of the askanim who worked tirelessly for this day shelo ahl menas l’kabel pras. Special kudos to Chaim Yosef ben Zev. The paradigm of chesed shel emes and a true chassid in every sense of the word.
Someone on here posted address of Judge Reade to write her letters:
Please remember harassing, threatening a federal judge is a federal crime and then comes in charges from the Postal Inspectors.
Keep your letters to a subject and respectful…Lets NOT make a Chilil Hashem.
She showed her Rishes to Rubashkin and we never know which other yid can wind up in her chambers….
Boy is Hashomer, Yasmar & Yonasonw and all there screen names, are having a bad day. First Trump Tax Plan passes now this. How do they survive? I guess they are still hanging on to the Russia hack theory
The tefilos of the Tens of thousands yidden all over the world had a Royshem in Shumayim and Hashem listened to yiddishe tefillos.
Please lets keep on davening for all other prisoners hashem should have rachmunes on them and their families, ( i am not interested in all people who claim that if You cant serve the TIME do not commit the CRIME..Hashem knows that too but we as yidden need to be mispalel and its up in Hashems hands …
It is true that the sentence was too severe…but time actually served was not.
But hey, Jews who commit large scale bank fraud are more equal than others who commit large scale bank fraud. Three cheers and a proud well done to those Jews who commit bank fraud.
I am glad to see he has to pay what he owes.
WOW i am watching with tears all those clips dancing all over the world for Sholom Rubashkin. Its every yids Simche and lets NOT forget the unfortunate loss klal yisroel had on Sunday where we lost Mother and 3 dear neshumes.
We need NOT loose our minds with Simche and we need to celebrate by giving shevach vehoydueh to hashem for the GOOD and cry and beg for the family still in critical condition fighting for their lives. So lets celebrate with Tefilleh and Torah learning and Mitzvohs.
Mr Trump I beg your forgiveness for campaigning against you
Is Weberman next?
Also,lets NOT forget this is a Commute not a Pardon and Rubashkin needs to pay back millions to the bank and government , so lets dance with an open wallet and pocket book and pay his obligations. Lets show the $$$$ and dance with klal yisroel
As much as I hate Agent Orange, Hashem does work in mysterious ways. With that said, I wish Sholom Rubashkin hatzlocho raboh.
So is Trump still an anti semite?
President Trump is an absolute tzaddik! And in contrast, the neveila obama yimach sh’mo is the lowest of the low, anti semite. Can’t wait to hear the reaction to this from the liberal haters, yonasonw, hashomer, and the rest…wow, this president continues to amaze me with how much good he has accomplished in such a short time in office! This is such clear yad Hashem, putting into office this wonderfully brilliant, courageous, brave patriot, who loves Israel….can you even imagine the havoc that criminal HiLIARy would have wreaked in America and Israel by now if she had wormed her way in?????
To: #29 - What planet do you live on? Obama had nothing to do with Pollard’s release; in fact, he refused to release him for nearly seven years. It was only because the law mandated Pollard’s release after 30 years, that he was released in 2015. However, Obama and his Justice Department made sure that Pollard has been kept under the harshest parole conditions.
Jews- We have one down, and one to go. We must press for the undoing of Pollard’s harsh parole restrictions. He cannot leave Manhattan, and has to be electronically monitored 24/7. He is under house arrest from 7PM-7AM, as he cannot leave his five story walk up apartment (no elevator), during that time. Hence, he can’t attend Shul in the evening to daven, and has to answer the telephone, even on Yom Tov, in order to speak to his parole officer. His computer is subject to a search by the government at any time. Hence, he is unable to find employment. These draconian conditions will continue through November 2020, unless we request President Trump and the Attorney General to end them now. Pollard has been punished enough. Other spies who have served thirty years, never had such intrusive restrictions placed upon them.
SMR Is now in Monsey.
Leaving soon to the Ohel.
Then he will go to the father’s home.
Then to 770 until tomorrow morning at 11 to say Hgomel at the Rebbe’s minayn that starts at 10am.
Hashem I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Baruch Hashem.
Thank you to our great President for being the Shaliach!
Interesting comments. As someone who worked on the campaign to free SMR from the very beginning, there are no words to describe how I feel this morning. I have been saying daily Tehillim for him for close to 10 years. I still say for Pollard, because HIS parole is a complete travesty as well.
I just wrote a letter of appreciation to President Trump & I suggest you all do the same. http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact. Of course, Yonasonw would rather watch a Yid sit for another 19 years than credit Trump for anything, but that is his right and he can defend himself to HKBH after 120 (+ 19 years for the commuted sentence.)
Shabbos is Didan Netzach – Hey Teves, when the stolen seforim from 770 were returned. I was in 770 that day, celebrating with the Kehilla. Now I live in Eretz Yisrael and this is the only time I wish I was back there.
May this Yeshuah be “Trumped” by the coming of Moshiach bimheyra b’yemeinu.
Wow! Now what about Pollard? Can Trump do anything there???
P.S. Have you heard? In thanking Trump for this, Chabad will now recognize Washington as the US capitol and move 770 there.
Funny to see half the comments are either denigrating other commenters or Yonason and half nothing to do with SMR