BREAKING! Government Does Not Plan To Appeal Rubashkin Bail

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[Curious Postville Native]

I'll bet its because they have decided they will rearrest him in the parking lot instead.

[getzel rubashkin ( not )]

Shmarya and all the chabad friends will not able to sleep,

Shalom rubashking out in bail!!

Very good news!

[getzel rubashkin ( not )]

BBRREEAAKKIINNG !!!!

Shmarya and Jeff Abbas went to the doctor and ask for extra strong Ambian pills in order to sleep , and extra large dose of prozac & other pills to be able to function !!!
In addition to their normal prescriptions !!!
BBRREEKKIINNG !!!!!!!!!!

[FirstGenerationBavarianAmerican]

Since the defense left the house arrest bail package offer on the table, the prosecutors must have realized they could not win in an appeals court.

[sage]

I feel that it's a good tactical move.

Any violation of the bail agreement on the part of SMR, however slight, will mean that he will be behind bars permanently, before trial.

The Government is supplying SMR with more than adequate rope for him to hang himself on.

[just wondering]

I just seen the news. Getzel is as ugly as his dad. SMUKS!!

[Archie Bunker]

Let the stalling tactics begin! So much for the famous last words of looking forward to getting it over as soon as possible.

http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=19FF7FA3-5056-B82A-3745DA652ADD718A

Cook says he is considering filing a motion for a change of venue. Rubashkin is scheduled to go on trial in Cedar Rapids on September 8th.

[Archie Bunker]

Sept 8th, huh? As that's a week before Rosh Hashana, they will no doubt ask to postpone things for over a month until after the Yamim Tovim.

[Archie Bunker]

Didn't Pesach Lerner "verify" that Agri is new, modern & state of the art?

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090127/NEWS/901270381/-1/ENT06

Industry analysts have predicted that only kosher or other specialty-meat producers would be interested in the plant, because it is smaller and older than most mainstream meatpacking operations.

Menachem Lubinsky, a kosher-industry consultant who used to work for Agriprocessors, said Soglowek is a very well-known company, especially in the vegetarian market. "They have done fairly well in the U.S. and are apparently looking to make a major move in the U.S. market," he wrote in an e-mail Monday afternoon. "Many Israeli companies, flush with cash and no longer expecting a peace dividend in the Mideast, find their natural outlet in the growing U.S. kosher market."

[Archie Bunker]

And I thought UOJ was only joking about a taxpayer bailout of Agri.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090127/NEWS/901270381/-1/ENT06

Sarachek said he'd talked to state officials and members of Congress about the possible sale. He said he has not requested any government incentives to sweeten the deal. Such requests usually come from potential buyers, he said.

Postville Mayor Robert Penrod said he was glad to hear about the offer, but he and other government officials will need to thoroughly check out the potential buyer.

Penrod said he is wary after the damage the previous owners did to the town and its reputation. "We got burned once," he said. "We're not going to get burned twice."

Penrod said he was optimistic that the federal government would help analyze the deal, then encourage it if all goes well.

[Archie Bunker]

Engelmayer finds another sleazy scofflaw to flack for.

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11545409?source=most_emailed

Angel Food Ministries Inc., a charity that sells discount groceries in thousands of communities, including several in York County, paid nearly $2.5 million in compensation in one year to the Georgia family that founded and operates the organization.

CEO Wesley Joseph Wingo, a church pastor known as Joe, got a pay increase from $69,598 in 2005 to $588,529 in 2006.

Wingo's wife and the couple's two sons saw similar boosts in pay

Family members also borrowed money from AFM. At the end of 2007, the Wingos owed a balance of nearly $1.1 million on loans from the Good Hope, Ga.-based charity, according to the latest-available tax records.

Charity watchdogs said the high salaries and loans raise the question of whether some of Angel Food's earnings are being used to benefit insiders instead of for a charitable purpose.

A spokesman for AFM, which has seen sales grow tenfold since 2003, said Wingo's pay and raises for his family members in 2006 were appropriate for a charity of its size.

The spokesman, New York-based Juda Engelmayer, said the Wingos and their sons will repay the money they owe AFM, which emphasizes its role in helping to feed struggling families.

Charity experts who reviewed the tax documents flagged the amount of money spent in 2007 on travel ($1.08 million) and fundraising ($505,380) as particularly high for an organization of AFM's size.

Engelmayer would not comment on the spending for fundraising.

Engelmayer said nonprofit executives need to be paid a competitive salary because, with their skills and experience, they could earn significantly more in the private sector if they choose to leave the charity they founded.

The charity evaluator Charity Navigator publishes its research on nonprofit CEO compensation each year.

In 2006, CEO Joe Wingo's compensation ($588,529) was more than twice the median salary of $220,000 that Charity Navigator reported for CEOs at nonprofits with expenses between $25 million and $50 million that year. AFM's expenses were just under $17.7 million in 2006.

Federal tax law prohibits "insiders" of tax-exempt nonprofits from earning "unreasonable compensation." "Insiders" include officers, directors and key employees of an organization.

[Archie Bunker]

Would Shammai Engelmayer write this when his son was still flacking for Rubashkin?

http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/hypocrisy_and_the_jewish_future/6156

In the Agriprocessors case, the question is whether individual aspects of halacha can be independent of each other. If the letter of the law is followed in the slaughtering process, or in food preparation, does the violation of other aspects of Jewish law, such as those that set labor standards, invalidate the kashrut of the meat? Consider these two cases:

Case One: A restaurant serves kosher foods exclusively and these foods are certified by recognized authorities. The preparation is also done according to Jewish law. As part of the ambience of the restaurant, however, music is played in the background. It is music that people can dance to, although there is no room in the restaurant for anyone to do any dancing. Should that restaurant be certified as kosher?

No, say some kashrut authorities. The fact that the music has the potential to encourage dancing is sufficient to deny kashrut certification. The same is true if employees do not dress in a manner acceptable to these certifiers.

Case Two: Agriprocessors violated with abandon a variety of civil and criminal laws and halachic requirements. Among other things, it was accused of abusing animals, gross labor law violations, and bank fraud. Should Agriprocessors be denied kosher certification?

The same certifiers who would deny certification in places where music that might be danced to is played made clear that none of what Agriprocessors did affected the kashrut of its meat. Other rabbis concurred. Thus, “Lapses of business ethics, animal rights issues, worker rights matters — all of these have no effect whatsoever on the kosher value,” Agudath Israel’s Rabbi Avi Shafran recently told a Yeshiva University-sponsored conference.

Music you can dance to does help determine “the kosher value,” but forcing 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day does not.

Shammai Engelmayer is rabbi of the Conservative synagogue Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and an instructor in the UJA-Federation-sponsored Florence Melton Adult Mini-School of the Hebrew University. He is the editor of Judaism: A Journal of Jewish Life and Thought.

[Archie Bunker]

You know, this is interesting. Engelmayer is still flacking for OU-client Le Marais which abuses the kashrus supervisors and has gotten in trouble with the hashgocho for parties with music & bellydancers.

[concern jew2]

sore loosers, the system and process are open to all, even the accused.

[Yochanan Lavie]

We haven't lost yet. The wheels of justice are still turning.