Waterloo, IA – Former Official: Minors Not Allowed In Plant

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    Waterloo, IA – A former controller at an Iowa kosher meatpacking plant says former manager Sholom Rubashkin didn’t want underage workers in the slaughterhouse.

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    Toby Bensasson testified Friday during Rubashkin’s trial in Black Hawk County.

    Rubashkin is charged with 83 counts of child labor violations.

    Bensasson testified that the company would lose its insurance coverage if underage workers were found at the plant.

    He says he once kicked out a girl who was under 18 after being alerted by a human resources employee. Bensasson says that when he told Rubashkin, Rubashkin responded by saying: “Very good. We can’t have minors.”

    The trial resumed today after being delayed several days because Rubashkin was hospitalized with a skin infection on his arm and because of a Jewish holiday.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Looking at the history of the plant, I find that very hard to believe.

    whos meshiga here?
    whos meshiga here?
    13 years ago

    Look how they uncover one lie after another of the gov’ts lies. After all the testimony that did not click.

    That witness
    That witness
    13 years ago

    I believe he’s headed to do 3 yrs. in prison for signing false documents or something. Not sure he’ll be trusted. I don’t know. The witnesses who testified that there were children all over the place sounded pretty reliable, and many of them saw Rubashkin there.

    But it’ll ultimately be in the hands of the jury, right?

    Dave
    Dave
    13 years ago

    Agriprocessors (the company) has conceded that it knowingly hired under-age employees.

    The question before the Court is whether or not Sholom Rubashkin knowingly approved of this practice. So far, the prosecution haven’t shown this, but they have not finished presenting their case.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    What I find more appalling than the govt. Handling this case are the Rubashkin haters who have no regard for a human being with all the problems that the family has they have to read the comments here like comment# 1

    to number 1
    to number 1
    13 years ago

    What history of the plant? Are you on the side of the prosecution? And what about the comment that the judge made about the inconsistant testimony of the prosecution?? What history???

    Ich shaym zich oych nisht#1
    Ich shaym zich oych nisht#1
    13 years ago

    For # 1– This was the head of Human Resources at Agri- She was found NOT GUILTY on appeal. Believe me, after what she paid in legal fess and what she went thru in this process, she would not lie. She knows what she would face if she did.
    In fact, how many of us can tell which of the mexicans working are under age since they are
    so short and look young. I chastised a store for having a young boy looking no older than 12 working and he pulled out his license of 23 years old . Did any of you Chachomim see
    where a person was able to become a senior military officer in the US army and never had an education or experience. Whose head will roll for that??? I have no doubt that there were problems but let’s call a spade a spade looking at the testimony of these witnesses who received U visas for 4 yeqars to spend with their families.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Well said the GOV is trying to paint they RISHUS for allowing the raid to happen

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    rubashkin is a good man….may hashem bless him with the best

    iish emmes says
    iish emmes says
    13 years ago

    Where is the Hechsher tzeddek rabbi to make a comment about this. His Humanistic support of Peta is what caused the downfall of Rubashkin originally. Let him give his Hechsher Tzrddek for the rabbis and Cantors and roiv mispallilim in the Conservative and reform movemnet on the treif food they eat.. He has no tzedek in him as evidenced by his silence in the degree of venom by the prosecution and the judge… He should give a hechsher in Rishis and Nekomo.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    #1 . You are the exact type goverment likes.
    They charge rubashkin you believe them.
    They accuse – you believe.
    You know nothing and are doing their dirty work for them.
    The man as accused stands a darn good chance of winning his case DESPITE the close to one hundred fifty million the feds spent to take him down.
    This will be the most expensive libel ever in jewish history.
    God shows no matter how powerful a prosecutor thinks they are he controls.
    And justice will prevail.
    You will be ashamed the day you discover how they lied cheated stole to get their way. A way that will fail.
    Salvation belongs exclusively to god and what better place to show it than here and now.

    In defense of #1
    In defense of #1
    13 years ago

    The plant already pleaded guilty to the charges. Bensasson was only one of many people who testified on Friday. other people testified to the opposite. Many other people, Before Yom Tov, there were people that testified that SMR did know what was going on.

    The plant, under the leadership and management of SMR accumulated a long record of civil rights violations, OSHA violations, and other assorted misdemeanors and felonies. Don’t lecture #1 on how bad or cruel the comment is. I strongly doubt that #1 has 86 felonies against him for bank theft, or had hired 12 year olds to pluck chickens 12 hours a day. Had anyone given the Rubashkins mussar, and had they been smart or pious enough to listen to it, then SMR would not be in front of the jury today.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Why do focus so much time and energy on SMR when there are so many truly innocent yiddin prisoners who are not convicted felons who desparately need our help and attention(such as the guy from Potomac, Maryland being held in Cuba). Is it not time already to move on and focus the scarce resouces of the yiddeshe community on real victims rather than those who committed serious crimes yet try to make themselves into the victims.

    murray huberfeld
    murray huberfeld
    13 years ago

    All of you sickos and Anti Semites who say Rubaskin should do jail time I hope you all rot in hell.Ben Brafman said “the averege American Jewish frum bussinessman who works commits one federal crime a day deliberatley or not deliberatley because they dont know all the laws”.So all of you stupid loud mouth unclassy flatbush people shut up,stop hocking,and start doing something spritual in your life {like bein kovea itim L’torah],and most importantly GET A LIFE and stop joining up with those that hate us.You people are reminiscent of the kapos who collabarated with the Nazis in the concentration camps.Nothing bode well for those kapos in the end for either they were killed by the Nazis or killed by the holocaust surviviors after they were liberated

    ..
    ..
    13 years ago

    To all of you grosser chachomim out there who really did not care what Rubashkin did in the plant as long as you had your cheap salami and franks ….

    THere is no such thing as a free ride. You cannot show your piousness and humility in public while running a slave plant with inhuman conditions in private. The law will catch up to you. Don’t worry, there will plenty of misguided yidden who will rally to your cause, no matter what chillul Hashem you have done. They will cry pink fahrkeret – the person the says that there was something wrong at the plant will now be the accused.

    Commentor #1 is right. There were plenty of things rotten at the plant and no one cared. You cannot undo what was done. But by not acknowledging what kind of people really ran the plant were, you are making it worse for all yidden.

    Yelling yechi does not bring someone back to like. Yelling that #1 is not jewish does not make SMR innocent.

    UVisa
    UVisa
    13 years ago

    I just want to point out, that all the defendants who were brought in from out of the stated receive UVisa’s which is a work visa that is good for 4 years. during the 4 years they can apply for permanent residence. So I think that they are not really being partial.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    ולא יאשמו כל החוסים בך

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    You are the exact type criminals like.
    They get charged and you believe them innocent.
    They accuse – you believe.
    You know nothing and are doing their dirty work for them.
    The accused was found guilty of 86 counts so far, and if it cost close to one hundred fifty million for the feds spent to take him down (which I very seriously doubt), there were MUCH cheaper ways to frame him.
    This will be the most expensive embarrassment ever in jewish history.
    Gd shows no matter how powerful a supporter thinks he is, justice will prevail.

    You will be ashamed the day you discover how they lied to get their way, and you believed all of it.

    You’re very sad. You know nothing more than you hear in shul and the mikva and think you’re an expert on this huge pogrom.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    MAY THIS blood libel come to an end and may smr be free and moshiach now!