DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A hearing seeking a new trial for a
former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive convicted of financial
fraud is set for Wednesday before the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of
Appeals in St. Louis.
Former Agriprocessors Inc. manager Sholom Rubashkin was
convicted of financial fraud in 2009 and sentenced to 27 years in
prison. His arrest followed an immigration raid at the company's
Postville plant in 2008.
Rubashkin's attorneys sought a new trial claiming Chief U.S.
District Court Judge Linda Reade, who presided over Rubashkin's
trial, could not be impartial and should have recused herself
because she participated in the planning of the raid.
Reade rejected the request and Rubashkin's attorneys appealed to
the federal court.