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Read Today's E-edition. Log In. My Membership. Share This. Rubashkin acquitted of allowing minors to work at slaughterhouse; Jury foreman explains Rubashkin verdict. Share this. Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin, right, hugs defense attorney Mark Weinhardt after being acquitted of all 67 counts of child labor violations at the Postville slaughterhouse at the Black Hawk County Courthouse Monday, June 7, , in Waterloo, Iowa.

Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin, left, hugs defense attorney Montgomery Brown, right, after being acquitted of all 67 counts of child labor violations at the Postville slaughterhouse at the Black Hawk County Courthouse Monday, June 7, , in Waterloo, Iowa. People are also reading…. Daily News Podcast Daily Newsletters.

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Contact Us. A Folience Company. Jurors returned the verdict against Sholom Rubashkin, 50, on its second day of deliberations after the nearly monthlong trial. He faces a sentence that could add up to hundreds of years in prison - as well as a second federal trial on 72 immigration charges.

It was a difficult case. We disagree with the verdict," defense attorney Guy Cook said after the decision. Prosecutors had alleged that as a manager of the former Agriprocessors, Inc. Attorney Peter Deegan said Rubashkin was aware of the fraud at the plant and to assume otherwise was "ridiculous. Over the protests of Rubashkin's defense team, Reade also allowed former employees to testify that days before the May immigration raid, Rubashkin scrambled to get new documents for his workers, at least of whom were found to be illegal immigrants.

The plant filed for bankruptcy months after the raid and has since been sold. Prosecutors claim evidence of the massive fraud scheme was uncovered during an investigation by a court-appointed trustee.

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