Postville News

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.

A federal jury Thursday convicted the former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse, which was the site of a massive immigration raid, on 86 of 91 financial fraud charges.

The newly formed Northeast Iowa Regional Housing Trust Fund, a four-county collaborative effort, has been awarded $237,501 to assist in making housing improvements for low-income residents.

ELKADER, Iowa -- The Clayton County Enterprise Commission Board recommended that the Iowa Department of Economic Development approve enterprise zone benefits for Agri Star Meat & Poultry LLC.

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY PETER DEEGAN JR. GAVE THE GOVERNMENT'S CLOSING ARGUMENTS MONDAY IN SHOLOM RUBASHKIN'S FEDERAL FINANCIAL FRAUD TRIAL IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN SIOUX FALLS, S.D. RUBASHKIN IS ON TRIAL ON 91 FINANCIAL FRAUD CHARGES, AND DEEGAN ASKED JURORS TO CONVICT THE FORMER AGRIPROCESSORS INC.

Leigh Rekow's election as mayor Tuesday may signal a return to a more welcoming attitude toward Postville's immigrants.

As Postville moves past the blow of seeing its largest employer closed, city leaders will have months of planning with a University of Iowa institute to help guide it.

A former Iowa man accused of killing his infant son four years ago will go on trial in 2010.

The former manager of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid says he never intentionally violated federal laws.

Leading police executives from states as diverse as California, Iowa and Texas joined a growing chorus of law enforcement officials calling for comprehensive immigration reform.

Top executives at an eastern Iowa slaughterhouse knew they were about to be raided by immigration agents and offered to cooperate with the government several days before the record-setting bust, a plant manager said Monday during the Sioux Falls trial of former plant executive Sholom Rubashkin.