Slaughterhouse Owner Walks on Immigration?

(AP)  Prosecutors sought on Thursday to dismiss all 72 immigration charges against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa after his conviction on financial fraud charges.

The government on 86 financial fraud charges that could bring a prison sentence of hundreds of years.

Rubashkin, 50, was a manager of the Agriprocessors Inc., plant in Postville, Iowa, the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008.

Prosecutors filed the motion to drop the immigration charges one day after a bail hearing for Rubashkin. He had been scheduled to go on trial for those charges on Dec. 2 in Sioux Falls, S.D. He has said he is innocent of all charges.

U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Bob Teig declined to comment on the motion.

Rubashkin initially faced 163 counts in a government indictment stemming from the immigration raid. U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade split the trial into 91 counts of financial fraud and 72 counts of immigration violations.

A jury found Rubashkin guilty Nov. 12 on 86 of the 91 financial fraud charges. Reade has not announced a sentencing date on those charges, and Rubashkin's attorneys have said they will appeal the conviction.

During the financial fraud trial, Rubashkin's defense attorneys protested the government's introduction of testimony involving alleged immigration violations. In the motion, prosecutors acknowledge that several of the charges in the financial trial were based on the assumption that Rubashkin harbored illegal immigrants.

[kansas1946]

Well, if he has hundreds of years in prison already, then why waste tax-payers money to try him for the immigration charges. Immigration is what got him in hot water to start with, so I suspect folks got the message.

[Richardcranum]

So what will the sect do without Shalom?

[louiville35]

And the Obama catch and release program for "Protected Group" convicted villains continues.

[bubbadubba]

Good call. Why waste millions of my tax money when the guy is already going to prison for 100 years. If he gets off on appeal they can still bring the charges against him later.
It is really good not to have GW Bush and his pro illegal immigration Republican bribe takers in Congress controlling (destroying) our country.

[meatrex1]

Oy vey!

[endurorob_5]

So the "Federal" prosecutor has chosen to drop immigration charges and the spokesman declines to comment why. Orders from Washington?

[YourVeryWrong]

Are you saying Obama attended the same synagogue as this man?

[kansas1946]

LOL. Yes, "Muslims" like Obama just love Jews. I suspect they didn't want to waste money on prosecution since it sounds like this guy won't be walking any time soon.