Rabbis: Is There Anything To Deter Them?!

Nothing deters those guys and their shit always hits the fan. Oh, Rabbis: When the inside of a pot is filthy, it will yield nothing but filth.

Feds seek life sentence in slaughterhouse case

By NIGEL DUARA , 04.27.10, 04:44 PM EDT

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- A request that a former kosher slaughterhouse manager spend the rest of his life in prison for financial fraud has surprised Jewish groups and led six former U.S. attorneys general to complain that prosecutors are seeking an excessive sentence.

A sentencing hearing for Sholom Rubashkin will begin Wednesday in Cedar Rapids, ending a nearly two-year saga that began with a huge raid on the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, in northeastern Iowa, which resulted in the arrests of 389 people on immigration charges.

Rubashkin has been jailed since November 2009, when he was convicted of 86 financial fraud charges that stemmed from fake invoices he created to show a lender the plant had more money flowing in than it did. Prosecutors say the fraud cost the bank $26 million.

Prosecutors later dropped 72 charges of immigration violations but called for a life sentence, saying the 50-year-old Rubashkin should "be treated no differently than other defendants sentenced by the court."

That request shocked Rubashkin's supporters and even some who didn't question his guilt.

"Look, he committed a crime, and when you commit a crime, the nature of our system of justice is that you pay for the crime," said Rabbi David Zweibel, executive vice president of New York-based Agudath of Israel, a national Orthodox group. "But the prospect of this man spending probably the rest of his life behind bars is horrible."

But, But, But he's special, and the law is Anti Semitic...What can I say, but isn't it always the same story? We're above the law and don't deserves to be treated equally.

 

Do you remember this guy... He's a Human organ Trafficker and a rabbi