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Rubashkin Gets 27 Years

Meat-packing owner, 51, was convicted of financial fraud

by
Marc Tracy
June 21, 2010
The Iowa Agriprocessors plant.(Wikipedia)
The Iowa Agriprocessors plant.(Wikipedia)

Not two weeks after being cleared of a slew of child labor charges, Sholom Rubashkin, the ultra-Orthodox owner of the Agriprocessors Glatt kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for the 86 federal financial fraud charges of which he was convicted late last year. Prosecutors had requested a 25-year sentence. Rubashkin is 51.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.