BREAKING!: Agriprocessors Supervisor To Plead Guilty Today, New Charges To Include Conspiracy With His Employer To Hire Illegals

UPDATED 3:30 AM 8-20-08

The Rubashkin family appears to be going down, as…

…the Des Moines Register reports:

Agriprocessors supervisor faces additional charge
GRANT SCHULTE

A manager who allegedly helped hide illegal workers at Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville will plead guilty Wednesday to charges tied to his role in the secret operation that employed nearly 700 illegal immigrants, according to a court docket published Tuesday.

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza will appear at a change-of-plea hearing at a temporary federal court in Cedar Rapids, according to the online court docket.

The news came as U.S. Attorney Matt Dummermuth announced the 35-year-old plant supervisor will face charges that he conspired with his employer to hire the illegal workers.

The plea bargain comes three months after federal agents raided the plant at detained 389 immigrant workers. Teig said the investigation remains open, but declined to say whether authorities would charge any other managers.

The new charges filed are conspiracy to hire illegal aliens, and aiding and abetting the hiring of illegal aliens. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum five-year prison sentence, while aiding and abetting sets a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors allege that Guerrero-Espinoza told his employees that the plant would fire and then immediately re-hire them with new papers.

Bob Teig, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, would not disclose any details about the scheduled plea hearing. But the hearing before a federal magistrate coincides with an arraignment on Guerrero-Espinoza’s new charges, suggesting they could be part of a plea bargain.

Authorities were holding Guerrero-Espinoza in a local county jail, Teig said, but he did not know which one. Agents are still searching for a third man, Hosam Amara, who was last known to live in Postville.

Two lawyers for Guerrero-Espinoza did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Guerrero-Espinoza, who supervised the plant’s beef kill department, allegedly told a group of employees a few days before the raid that they needed new identification papers and Social Security numbers to stay employed. The supervisor allegedly asked workers for photographs and $200 to $220 for new documents.

Later, according to the complaint, Guerrero-Espinoza told the employees that they could return to work.

Why no charges against the Rubashkins so far?

I think the answer to that question is: RICO. The indictments will come, I think, soon.

Comments

[Isa]

Just get a few of those Illegals describing how they got a meat hook on the skull, and that will be a guaranteed guilty verdict.
This is the time to to point to yourself and say "Me, slave puppet" and point to a picture of ol Rubi and say "BIG BOSS MASTER MIND"

[State of Postville 2]

The Des Moines Register carries this story with an additional paragraph.

"Juan Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza will appear at a change-of-plea hearing at a temporary federal court in Cedar Rapids, according to the online court docket.

The news came as U.S. Attorney Matt Dummermuth announced the 35-year-old plant supervisor will face charges that he conspired with his employer to hire the illegal workers."

[Anonymous]

Here's the government strategy:

Make life miserable for the low level employees. Indict them on major charges and...

allow them to plee (and walk) if they turn
state's evidence to get the company ownership.

Watch the Feds go after the bosses.

Give them about 3-6 months.

They are coming down.

Hmmm.

Why did all the Rubashkins move to Israel?

[Nigritude Ultramarine]

Watch the Feds go after the bosses.

Don't drop the soap!

[Isa]

Dear Getzle:
How does this affect you?
Will this mean you will move up a couple of notches in your company?
OR
Are you going to be the fall guy?

[sage]

It's very heartening to see that there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.

My prayer is, that the Federal Indictment Net will be cast wide enough to include all of the Rabbis and associated Kosher Certifying Agencies that had any dealings with Rubashkin.

They are equally guilty of all of the criminal offenses that will be listed.

[Barry]

The night editor of the UK's largest selling quality broadsheet who was formerly a senior reporter with the London Jewish Chronicle has written an online article called 'The kosher trade – the good, the bad and the ugly'.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/julian_kossoff/blog/2008/08/19

He seems to conclude that Agriprocessors may have a holy purpose in that it is God's way of telling us to become vegetarians

[rebitzman]

++Are you going to be the fall guy?++

That would be a neat trick - given that he didn't actually start working with the company until after the raid.

[shmuel]

All the Rubashkins moved to Israel?

[Archie Bunker]

It seems like the media is purposely avoiding mention of the probable whereabouts of Agri's fugitive Palestinan Arab manager. Perhaps this is out of political correctness of not wanting to appear like Arab bashers.

[WoolSIlkCotton]

Milton Balkany must be exhausted, running through the halls of the Iowa Statehouse and the halls of Congress in Washington, handing out suitcases of cash.
So Getzel, got any postcards from the family in Israel?

[steve]

Shmarya kicks Lubinsky's ass in in the Des Moines Register today:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS/808200366&theme=POSTVILLE_ICE_RAID

Lubinsky said Jacobson Cos. of Des Moines is the only recruiting company with a contract to provide workers for Agriprocessors. He said he does not think Jacobson has been recruiting outside the United States. A Jacobson executive declined to comment.

Shmarya Rosenberg, an Agriprocessors critic, was skeptical of the company's claim that it is not recruiting in other countries. "Where else are they going to find people?" he said. "Who else is going to want to move to Postville to make $10 an hour?"

Rosenberg, a Minnesota resident who identifies himself as a former friend of the family that owns Agriprocessors, runs a Web site called FailedMessiah.com, which often carries critical stories about the plant. Last week, he posted a newspaper story from Palau about efforts to recruit workers there

[sage]

+++He seems to conclude that Agriprocessors may have a holy purpose in that it is God's way of telling us to become vegetarians

Posted by: Barry | August 20, 2008 at 09:09 AM+++

I think Barry is on to something.

There's a Jewish saying that goes: "Contained within every aveirah is an equal or greater blessing."

[rebitzman]

++Last week, he posted a newspaper story from Palau about efforts to recruit workers there++

He also earlier posted a recruitment advertisement in a Guatemalan newspaper - and that also kind of flies in the face of the company's claim.

[Archie Bunker]

Citizens of Palau may have dual American citizenship. The islands where put under American jurisdiction after WWII as a US Trust Territory.

[Paul Freedman]

former friend Shmarya?

[Paul Freedman]

emphasis on former I guess

[Paul Freedman]

hire American

[Archie Bunker]

http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2003/December/12-18-01.htm

"strengthens immigration provisions and protects the right of FSM and RMI citizens to migrate freely to the U.S. for work, education, and residence"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association

The Compact of Free Association (COFA) defines the relationship that three sovereign states—the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and the Republic of Palau—have entered into as associated states with the United States.

Now sovereign nations, the three freely associated states were formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States Navy from 1947 to 1951 and by the United States Department of the Interior from 1951 to 1986 (to 1994 for Palau).

Under the COFA relationship, the United States provides guaranteed financial assistance over a 15-year period administered through the Office of Insular Affairs in exchange for certain defense rights. The freely associated states actively participate in all Office of Insular Affairs technical assistance activities. The U.S. treats these nations uniquely by giving them access to many U.S. domestic programs, including disaster response and recovery and hazard mitigation programs under the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In 2003, the Compacts between the RMI and FSM were renewed for 20 years. These new Compacts provided US$3.5 billion in funding for both nations. US$30 million was also provided to American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands in "Compact Impact" funding. This funding helps the governments of these localities cope with the expense of providing services to immigrants from the RMI, FSM, and Palau. The U.S. usage of Kwajalein Atoll for missile testing was renewed for the same period.[1] The new Compacts also changed certain immigration rules. RMI and FSM citizens traveling to the U.S. are now required to have passports.[2] Furthermore, the U.S. Postal Service was given the option to apply international postage rates for mail between the U.S. and RMI/FSM (phased in over five years). The USPS did begin implementing the change in January 2006, but decided to resume domestic services and rates in November 2007.[3]

The renewed Compact (commonly called "Compact II") for FSM took effect on May 1, 2004 and for RMI on June 30, 2004.

Map of the TTPI from 1961The Compact for Palau expires in 2009.

[WoolSIlkCotton]

It's amazing what lengths the Rubashkins go through to avoid hiring ordinary US citizens and paying them a decent wage and benefits.
You would think that at this point in time, with the Feds scrutinizing their every move, that they would walk the straight and narrow path, but I guess they just will never 'get it'.

[sage]

Being confined in prison gives one ample time to ruminate about many things.

Maybe, in this setting, the Rubashkins will eventually "get it."

But it will, then, be too late.

[Archie Bunker]

Sage has a sense of humor.

Ruminate has more than one meaning.

[sage]

Yes, if the diet is a healthy one, consisting of greens, beans with Challah and Wine thrown in for Shabbat and Yom Tovim, there will indeed be double rumination, of the dietary and mental varieties.

[Archie Bunker]

Rubashkin will probably balk at the $1900 price tag for a plane ticket from Palau and insist they use a more economical means of transportation.

Who cares if a few natives on rafts go MIA in the South Pacific?

Lubinsky could issue a statement something like, well there have been a few reports of drownings and shark attacks here and there but no one is unaccounted for as far as we know.

[Anonymous]

http://archives.pireport.org/archive/2003/December/12-18-01.htm

"strengthens immigration provisions and protects the right of FSM and RMI citizens to migrate freely to the U.S. for work, education, and residence"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association

The Compact of Free Association (COFA) defines the relationship that three sovereign states—the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and the Republic of Palau—have entered into as associated states with the United States.

Now sovereign nations, the three freely associated states were formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States Navy from 1947 to 1951 and by the United States Department of the Interior from 1951 to 1986 (to 1994 for Palau).

Under the COFA relationship, the United States provides guaranteed financial assistance over a 15-year period administered through the Office of Insular Affairs in exchange for certain defense rights. The freely associated states actively participate in all Office of Insular Affairs technical assistance activities. The U.S. treats these nations uniquely by giving them access to many U.S. domestic programs, including disaster response and recovery and hazard mitigation programs under the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In 2003, the Compacts between the RMI and FSM were renewed for 20 years. These new Compacts provided US$3.5 billion in funding for both nations. US$30 million was also provided to American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, and the Northern Mariana Islands in "Compact Impact" funding. This funding helps the governments of these localities cope with the expense of providing services to immigrants from the RMI, FSM, and Palau. The U.S. usage of Kwajalein Atoll for missile testing was renewed for the same period.[1] The new Compacts also changed certain immigration rules. RMI and FSM citizens traveling to the U.S. are now required to have passports.[2] Furthermore, the U.S. Postal Service was given the option to apply international postage rates for mail between the U.S. and RMI/FSM (phased in over five years). The USPS did begin implementing the change in January 2006, but decided to resume domestic services and rates in November 2007.[3]

The renewed Compact (commonly called "Compact II") for FSM took effect on May 1, 2004 and for RMI on June 30, 2004.

Map of the TTPI from 1961The Compact for Palau expires in 2009.

Posted by: Archie Bunker | August 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM

Only an absolute total loser and a moron would even research this.

Much less post this.

Who the fuck cares about this?

This is blog spam Archie.

Looking for excitement in your boring life?

Stick your head in a meat grinder.

Meat head.

[sage]

Better yet, there should be chapparones on each raft, Rubashkin on one, Lubinsky on another, Lewin, Uncle Miltie, Gennack, Mandel, Weissmandl, Englemayer, etc.

This way, the future workers could get in-depth oral training in transit, so that they would be 100% productive from the get-go.

G-d forbid, if some rafts are attacked by sharks, some future prison detainees would be disposed of, saving the taxpayers lots of hard earned money.

[Archie Bunker]

I'm going to start digging up various factoids that I think a certain reader in particular will find highly interesting. I wouldn't want to disappoint him in case there is a dearth of things to read here.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Postville, Iowa, has a total area of 2.1 square miles.

[Anonymous]

I'm going to start digging up various factoids that I think a certain reader in particular will find highly interesting. I wouldn't want to disappoint him in case there is a dearth of things to read here.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Postville, Iowa, has a total area of 2.1 square miles.

Posted by: Archie Bunker | August 20, 2008 at 01:30 PM

Archie you fucking meat head.

Take your meds.

What are you taking today?

[steve]

Only an absolute total loser and a moron would even research this.

Much less post this.

And only a bigger moron would repost it in bold print.

[Archie Bunker]

Wow! Did anyone know that Postville's Coordinates are 43° 5′ 6″ N, 91° 34′ 10″ W ??? That's a fraction of a degree off of what I thought it was!!!

[sage]

I'm giving serious consideration to add "Anonymous" to the raft chapparone list.

[WoolSIlkCotton]

Archie, you rule!!
When an 'anonymous' starts attacking you with four letter words- his vocabulary is too limited to say anything else- you know you have succeeded!
Or, it could be a 5W type, looking to 'stifle' you (pun intended) because you regularly whoop Getzel's tuchas.

[Archie Bunker]

It's probably the same guy who yelled at me & called me "Torqemada" after I mentioned that UOJ & Yudel Shain have evidence that Shmuely Rubashkin's charge for "weapons trafficking / possession" disappeared from the record.

[Anon]

--Or, it could be a 5W type, looking to 'stifle' you--

Can't be. "Stifle" is beyond his vocabulary.

[Anon]

--Shmuely Rubashkin's charge for "weapons trafficking / possession" disappeared from the record.--

Now I'm starting to get really impressed witht he Rubashkins. My charges tend to stick to my record.

[State of Postville 2]

Geez, Archie. Thanks for posting Postville's Lat and Long...now everyone knows where we are!

[Getzel Rubashkin]

Archie, your repeating that stupid charge as if a conspiracy coverup took place instead of the charge being thrown out because it was concerning a BB gun, is another glimpse at your moral compass.

Just because his last name is Rubashking does not exempt you from basic human decency, not to mention honesty.

[Archie Bunker]

Getzel, your version of events that the charges were thrown out because they amounted to nothing could very well be true.

I was only addressing the fact that I have been coming under attack from someone or ones who are very keen on discrediting anything I say and that it all started after I mentioned Shmuely.

[Carol Ann Varley]

Postville could rival Hershey Park as a vacation destination.

A vacation package would include a narrated tour of Agriprocessors, admission to its theme park (including a ride in the revolving pen) and beef kisses wrapped in tinfoil.

[Getzel Rubashkin]

Well, until you have any reason to believe that events happened in a way other than I presented them, maybe you should not bring it up, or at the very least, mention my clarification.

[Archie Bunker]

I would add Getzel, that if you are so interested in debunking the Shmuely Rubashkin cover up theory, you might want to take it up with the 2 bloggers who broke the story:

http://theunorthodoxjew.blogspot.com/

http://yudelstake.blogspot.com/

[Anonymous]

Getzel, your version of events that the charges were thrown out because they amounted to nothing could very well be true.

I was only addressing the fact that I have been coming under attack from someone or ones who are very keen on discrediting anything I say and that it all started after I mentioned Shmuely.

Posted by: Archie Bunker | August 20, 2008 at 03:43 PM

Sorry Getzel. Archie is an asshole.

Every so often he lifts he leg and farts all over the blog.

And then it leaks out of his Depends.

[WoolSilkCotton]

++Just because his last name is Rubashking does not exempt you from basic human decency, not to mention honesty++

RubashKING? What a Freudian slip!

Why is a 'frum' Jew handling any kind of gun, anyway?

[Archie Bunker]

In case anyone forgot, the charming poster above claims to have semicha from both the Brisker Rov & Rav Moishe Feinstein and that he can wipe the floor with people in learning.

Try to contain yourself when pondering that.

[Getzel Rubashkin]

There is nothing to debunk, Archie. Someone saw a court document that disappeared and concocted a conspiracy theory based on nothing.

[Getzel Rubashkin]

The bigot is back. And now he wants to limit constitutional rights based on religious affiliation. Good going.

[WoolSilkCotton]

So now the open-minded Getzel is supporting the 2nd Amendment! So there was a gun, and your Shmuely is a licensed gun-owner?

[Getzel Rubashkin]

Hmmm. Acquire readings skills, bigot. I said "instead of the charge being thrown out because it was concerning a BB gun."

And supporting the constitution is now a bad thing?

[rebitzman]

++And only a bigger moron would repost it in bold print.++

Good point.

[rebitzman]

++Why is a 'frum' Jew handling any kind of gun, anyway?++

Why would they not?

Ever been to Israel?

[yidandahalf]

20 August at 03:34 claims Archie is repeating the BB gun charge as if a stupid coverup took place. ( These are Petzel Boy's words and I realize I am giving him therapy time which I apologize for. )
I just want to get this straight. A Rubishclans man was detained because of posssesion of what was later determined to be a BB/Air/Pellet type gun. He was charged? I repeat, HE WAS CHARGED? And it took some significant ammount of time AFTER THE INDIVIDUAL WAS CHARGED to determine possession of this gun in was not illegal and so the charges were dropped?
So someone please dig up this charge for us otherwise we will of course assume correctly that the Clan is covering something up.
Charges filed for an illegal weapon, gelt on the scene, charges dropped because illegal weapon became legal, uhhhhh..just like that!

[Michael Dorfman]

Why no charges against the Rubashkins so far?

let DA do its job. You remember ENRON. Step by step. Small gays pleaded guilty, made a deals with a prosecution, and all this ended up whit the top guy. I hope, this may be the tactics.