Iowa – Rubashkin Bail Denied Again

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    Iowa – A judge on Thursday upheld a decision to deny bail pending sentencing to a former executive of defunct Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant.

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    In her original decision, U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade wrote Sholom Rubashkin, 50, has greater incentive to flee because he faces significant jail time for financial fraud. She noted he had committed bank fraud and obstructed justice while out on bail awaiting trial.

    Defense attorney Guy Cook said he will appeal the ruling to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis.

    Attorneys for Rubashkin had asked the court to impose additional conditions such as curfew, home detention, home incarceration and 24-hour armed surveillance, to ensure he appears for a still-undetermined sentencing date


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    joey
    joey
    14 years ago

    Why should he get special armed guards etc, hes no better than any criminal and he IS a flight risk, so sadly he will and should stay behind bars.

    redsoxfan
    redsoxfan
    14 years ago

    he should believe in himself and dont sell himself short
    he should be released unconditionally, and someone, maybe nate lewin should open their mouth to this ant semetic judge

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Isn’t it obvious – his treatment is out of the norm. There is obvious anti-semitism here. If he were some kind of rotzeach, c’v,, he’d probably be let off on bail in a minute. This is wrong; this is a man that couldn’t be a threat to anyone and there’s no reason for him not to be let out on bail. We should say tehilim for him. This is a great mitzvah of pidyon shvuim!

    Dave
    Dave
    14 years ago

    The presumption after conviction is for remand.

    He was convicted. Being in jail after conviction is normal.

    Mockery
    Mockery
    14 years ago

    This case makes a mockery of the US justice system. Period.

    It is obvious that with 24 hour guard, turned in license, passports, birthcertificate, 23 people offering personal homes as bail, GPS tracking bracelet, in middle of Iowa, with no where to go, he is no flight risk.

    This is a vendetta and if investigated, I am certain will lead to the upper echelons of power in the state of Iowa.

    This is a double standard of the highest order; the entire saga unprecedented in the annals of the US judicial system. End of story.

    Chaim
    Chaim
    14 years ago

    ONLY IN AMERICA

    only in this great county do murders and rapists get bail and are often left out of jail due to ‘technicality’s’. but if you DARE to falsify some documents, and DARE to go to the post office and mail it – but NEVER actually steal a dime – you are EXTREMELY dangerous and can never go out on bail – even with the biggest restrictions (ankle bracelet, curfew, house arrest, 24hrs armed security..) – you are to dangerous to society, and need to be locked up for and extended period of time…

    What a beautiful, fair and just system – one the the infamous inhabitants of SEDOM would serenely approve and be proud of….

    Shaul in Monsey
    Shaul in Monsey
    14 years ago

    It is absolutely normal and predictable that he is denied bail. You can moan all you want about anti semites, the boogey man, and whatever else you need to conjur up in your mind to assuage your guilt over the fact that the man is a convicted felon. Stop comparing him to murderers and rapists who go free. Compare him to other felons convicted of wire fraud, bank fraud, etc and you’ll see he is being treated like every other felon.

    shem
    shem
    14 years ago

    PROBLEM: u know law enforcement is ir!sh, u know they hate jews. they unfairly target and watch jews way more closely than anyone else. they target “the most important ones” and leave many others alone….
    u need to tell the truth, the justice system ETC… is completely retarded end of story.
    ITS THE RESULT OF IDOLATORS

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Good, He doesn’t deserve bail.. Wasn’t it SMR, that told certain company officials to run to Israel? Let him sit in jail where he belongs, in good health, for many years to come. He’ll have plenty of time to sit quietly, and contemplate all his crooked ways. his time will be used to dream of ways to con the system. I wonder how he will lay teffilin, when they take them away, for fear he can use the straps as a rope?

    bottom line
    bottom line
    14 years ago

    Let’s clear something up. SMR may have padded some numbers but not to deceive the bank, which, due to the lavish interest payments they were collecting, winked at what he did because they needed these higher numbers for their records. The bank itself, in its own lawsuit against SMR to collect the money owed them, did NOT allege fraud. That is a powerful statement that punctures the prosecution’s charges that he had “criminal intent” to deceive the bank. Why then was he convicted? Prosecutors worked out a strategy that would net the most severe sentence — charges of “a massive bank fraud scheme”– and then proceded to dress up and bend the facts to fit those charges. One way was to split one count of bank fraud into 86 smaller counts so he could be charged many years for each and every one.
    Talk about a “massive scheme”! With a little help from the judge who suppressed defense testimonies that threatened to collapse this grand scheme, it worked like a dream!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    The prosecutor in that case has a whole lot of skeletons of his own in his closet.

    He is an anti semite through and through. There is no way he is legitimately prosecuting this man for the good of society.