Sholom Rubashkin
| Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin | |
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| Born | October 6, 1959 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Kosher meat plant manager |
| Employer | Agriprocessors |
| Criminal charge | Bank fraud |
| Criminal penalty | 27 years imprisonment, $27 million in restitution. |
| Criminal status | Federal Bureau of Prisons Register #10755-029, scheduled date of release: March 6, 2033; currently imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville |
| Spouse(s) | Leah Rubashkin |
| Children | 10 |
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (born October 6, 1959) is an American former chief executive officer of Agriprocessors, a now-bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, formerly owned by his father, Aaron Rubashkin. During his time as CEO of the plant, Agriprocessors grew into the largest kosher meat producer in the United States, but was also cited for issues involving animal treatment, food safety, environmental safety, child labor, and hiring of illegal workers.[1]
In November 2009, Rubashkin was convicted of 86 counts of financial fraud, including bank fraud, mail and wire fraud and money laundering. In June 2010, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison. In a separate trial, he was acquitted of knowingly hiring underage workers. He is currently serving his sentence in Otisville, New York. In January 2011, his lawyers filed an appeal; on September 16, 2011, the appeals court ruled against Rubashkin. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from that ruling on October 1, 2012.
Sholom Rubashkin is the second-youngest son of Rivka and Aaron Rubashkin, a kosher butcher from Brooklyn, New York, born in Nevel, Russia. The Rubashkins are ultra-Orthodox Jews belonging to the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
In 1981, Rubashkin married Leah Goldman and spent a year learning in kollel. Afterwards he worked in his father's butcher shop, until he and his wife were sent to Atlanta, Georgia, as emissaries (shluchim) in the Chabad-Lubavitch outreach program. A year later the couple moved to Minnesota, from where Rubashkin commuted to his father's new meat-packing plant in Postville for approximately three years before they relocated there. The couple has ten children.
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