Federal Court of Appeals Upholds Rubashkin Conviction and Sentence
| U.S. Attorney’s Office September 16, 2011 |
Sholom Rubashkin’s conviction and sentence on 86 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, making false statements to a bank, money laundering, and violations of an order of the Secretary of Agriculture was upheld today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
On June 22, 2010, Rubashkin, age 51, from Postville, Iowa, was sentenced to a total of 324 months’ imprisonment following his jury conviction on November 12, 2009.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Peter Deegan, C.J. Williams, and Matthew Cole, and the investigation has been led by Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Agriculture. Prior assistance was provided by the United States Marshals Service; United States Postal Inspections Service; Iowa Department of Public Safety; Iowa Department of Transportation; Federal Protective Service; Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations; United States Department of Labor; Public Health Service; United States Environmental Protection Agency; Iowa Department of Natural Resources; Drug Enforcement Administration; Waterloo Police Department; and Postville Police Department.
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion can be found at http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/index.html case number 10-2487.