Jury reaches verdict in fraud trial of former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager Rubashkin

Verdict in former slaughterhouse manager’s trial

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A jury has reached a verdict at the fraud trial of the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse where there was a massive immigration raid.

Sholom Rubashkin is charged with 91 counts of financial fraud.

The jury reached its verdict late Thursday afternoon. Rubashkin, his lawyers and prosecutors were gathering at the federal courthouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., where the nearly monthlong trial was held.

Rubashkin is charged with bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering and ignoring orders to pay cattle providers in the time required by federal law.

The charges were linked to Rubashkin’s job as a top manager at the former Agriprocessor’s plant in Postville, Iowa. He was arrested months after a May 2008 immigration raid that led to the arrest of 389 workers.