Postville News

With previous writing projects, University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom stayed pretty close to home.

Forty-year-old Juventino Lopez Pichia wants to bring his wife and children to Iowa.

Posted on Dec 03, 2009 by Admin . Sholom Rubashkin A federal judge again denied bail today for former Agriprocessors vice president Sholom Rubashkin pending his sentencing on 86 counts of bank fraud and other charges.

Supervisors at the now-defunct Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville sexually harassed an underage girl who worked at the meat processing plant and had intercourse with other female employees in a storage room, according to state court papers.

Posted on Dec 01, 2009 by Richard Pratt . Iowa cattle producers and sale barns who sold cattle to a defunct Postville slaughterhouse before it filed for bankruptcy received some disturbing mail this week.

For the past year, nearly 40 undocumented immigrants from Latin America have been kept in the United States for one reason: to testify against their former bosses at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant.

Decorah, Ia. - Three Decorah clergy members who have been involved in the interfaith response in Postville since the May 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors Inc.

Here's a glimpse into what's happening around the country on immigration reform: I've been working with a group of pastors in Decorah, Iowa, to host a "Breaking Bread and Barriers" event in their community.

Former Agriprocessors Manager Sholom Rubashkin is getting a lot of support from the Jewish Community in Postville.

In the months following the Postville raid, many criticized the government's record of going after poor workers and seldom against managers.

A group of about 100 people gathered in support of immigration reform Sunday afternoon at the high school in Decorah.

The new owners of the former AgriProcessors in Postville received $600,000 in state assistance, plus tax credits, Thursday for a $15 million proposal to update and modernize the Kosher beef and poultry meatpacking plant.

A federal judge has denied Sholom Rubashkin's request to be released on bail until he is sentenced on 86 financial fraud convictions.

By NIGEL DUARA A federal judge dismissed dozens of immigration charges Thursday against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse, at the request of prosecutors who had already won a conviction on multiple counts of financial fraud.U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade dismissed the 72 charges just hours after the government made its request.

Prosecutors have asked to dismiss all 72 immigration charges against a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager after his conviction on financial fraud charges.

The Iowa Independent has been tracking the nomination of Stephanie Rose for U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa for months, but now national media outlets have jumped into the act.

Sholom Rubashkin, former vice president of a Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, was found guilty of bank fraud and money laundering at a trial that recently took place in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Eighteen months have passed since federal immigration agents raided an Eastern Iowa meat plant, arrested nearly 400 workers and sent the plant spiraling into bankruptcy.

Sholom Rubashkin was found guilty Thursday on all but five of the 91 felony fraud charges he faced for his role in a massive bank fraud scheme at his former northeast Iowa meat plant.

Congressman Bruce Braley is speaking out on the former kosher slaughterhouse manager convicted of financial fraud.