Child labor trial to start (1,000's of violations, awaits sentencing on 86 fraud convictions)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald-AP

By NIGEL DUARA

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Jury selection will begin Tuesday in the trial of a former kosher slaughterhouse owner and four workers accused of thousands of child labor violations, such as allowing teenagers to use meat grinders and exposing children to dangerous chemicals.

The trial begins as the former manager of the Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, Sholom Rubashkin, awaits sentencing on 86 financial fraud convictions. Prosecutors asked a federal judge at a sentencing hearing last week to give Rubashkin 25 years in prison.

In the child labor trial, Rubashkin faces charges along with his father, former Agriprocessors owner Aaron Rubashkin, former human resources manager Elizabeth Billmeyer and two former human resources workers, Laura Althouse and Karina Freund.

The state filed the charges in September 2008, about four months after an immigration raid at the plant led to the arrest of 389 workers.

Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100503/NEWS97/705049919#child-labor-trial-to-start

[boppers]

1. 389? WTF?

/facepalm

[Blue Gardener]

2. This guy is a real piece of work

He took advantage of immigrants trying to find a better life in America. Many of them were young and didn't know they were being given jobs that were only supposed to be done by adults.

[happygoluckytoyou]

3. Kosher Slaughterhouse Owner..... what, was he blessed by a rabbi ?

oh come on.... it was funny....