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A former kosher slaughterhouse manager convicted of financial fraud has asked for an acquittal or new trial, saying prosecutors unfairly brought in evidence of immigration violations.
In the musty conference room of a South Dakota hotel, Sholom Rubashkin helps a disheveled man in a hooded sweat shirt wrap black bands around his left arm and head. Attached to each is a black box containing inscriptions from the Torah.
A former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid was convicted Thursday on 86 financial fraud charges that could bring a prison sentence of hundreds of years.
A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday after video showed calves kicked, shocked and cut while conscious had its operating license suspended three times earlier this year for similar conduct.
A former kosher slaughterhouse manager accused of defrauding a bank had the final say on financial reports, a former chief financial officer testified Monday.
Prosecutors portrayed a former kosher slaughterhouse manager as a schemer who funneled money through a school and grocery to avoid loan payments, while a defense attorney said he was simply involved with financial transactions he didn't understand.
A Southern California meatpacking plant that supplied beef to the nation's school lunch program slaughtered stumbling, potentially contaminated cows for four years before undercover video of animal abuse prompted a massive beef recall, federal court filings say.
A federal judge on Monday delayed the trial of four former top managers at an Iowa slaughterhouse where 389 people were arrested last year in what was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history at the time.
The end of the line for cattle raised at Elizabeth Poett's spread on the Central Coast used to come at an inland slaughterhouse after a five-hour drive crammed in a trailer with other spooked animals.
Life in Postville wasn't easy before federal agents raided the area's largest employer and detained 389 people on immigration charges.
A newly formed Iowa company bid $8.5 million for a struggling kosher slaughterhouse Monday that was involved in a massive immigration raid last year.
The president of a Canadian plastics plant and two others filed court documents Tuesday to buy a struggling kosher slaughterhouse in northeast Iowa that was the site of a massive raid by immigration agents last year.
A kosher slaughterhouse that was the site of a massive immigration raid last year could find a buyer soon, a bankruptcy trustee said Friday.
Hundreds gathered in the small northeast Iowa town of Postville on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of a huge immigration raid and reflect on the community's difficulty in recovering from the arrests.
An unidentified company has bought a $10 million credit line to an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse that went bankrupt after a massive immigration raid, paving the way for the plant's sale.
A cow nicknamed Molly who escaped from a New York City slaughterhouse may have a new lease on life. New York police said the all-black cow got out from Musa Hala, Inc. about 1 p.m. Wednesday, a slaughterhouse where animals are butchered according to religious restrictions.
The owner and former managers of a northeast Iowa kosher slaughterhouse have been granted a delay in trial on thousands of state child labor charges.
An upstate New York sandwich shop owner says plans to locate a slaughterhouse right next door will kill his business.
A federal judge has denied a request from a kosher slaughterhouse and a former manager to move their trial out of Iowa because of pretrial publicity.
A supervisor arrested after a massive immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa has been sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison for harboring illegal immigrants.
Researchers say 24 pork processing plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana who developed a mysterious neurological disorder have improved but still have some symptoms.
The Montana House of Representatives strongly endorsed a bill that paves the way for construction of a horse slaughterhouse in Montana and aims to bring the industry back to the United States.
Attorneys for a kosher slaughterhouse and a former executive charged after the plant was raided by immigration officials asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss the case or move the trial out of Iowa, claiming anti-Jewish bias in the grand jury and the state that one lawyer compared to Nazi-era Poland.
Nearly a thousand new charges have been filed in the state's prosecution of alleged child labor violations at a kosher meatpacking plant in northeast Iowa.
The former chief executive officer of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant was granted a new hearing over whether he should remained jail as he awaits a trial on charges stemming from a large immigration raid.
Closed slaughterhouse had been cited twice beforeMONTPELIER, Vt.—A Vermont slaughterhouse ordered closed Friday for alleged inhumane treatment of baby calves had its operating license suspended at least twice earlier this year for similar conduct.
Woman's Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled "American Chef's Selection Angus Beef Patties." Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmi …
My Big Fat Greek Art WeddingSlaughterhouse, the new Deste Foundation space on the island of Hydra, opens tomorrow as a satellite addition to the second Athens Biennale, a much anticipated stop on the June 2009 art safari.
Calf that Escaped NY Slaughterhouse Goes to Live on Organic FarmMolly the calf seems to have escaped the slaughterhouse permanently.
Missing cow spent nine months on the runA runaway Highland cow spent nine months in hiding to avoid the slaughterhouse.
How do horse slaughterhouses work? - By Christopher Beam - Slate MagazineThe Montana state legislature endorsed a bill Tuesday that would allow the construction of a horse slaughterhouse. It would be the only such plant in the country—the last three, two in Texas, one in Illinois, were shut down in 2007. How do horse slaughterhouses work?
Man Hurt By Dead Cow Falling At SlaughterhouseA 30-year-old man has been hurt by a dead cow that fell off a hook at a Milwaukee slaughter house and landed on top of him. Milwaukee Fire Department spokeswoman Tiffany Wynn says the man was about to butcher the cow when it fell and hit him in the shoulder and neck.
Lawmaker: Nation's food system is collapsing "But some are concerned about the health of nation's meat inspection system.
Union head claims USDA tried to intimidate employees - Yahoo! NewsWASHINGTON - The head of the union that represents 6,000 federal food inspectors told a congressional committee Thursday that the Agriculture Department tried to intimidate him and other employees who reported violations of regulations, an allegation denied by the agency. ADVERT …
Memo To Virginia: PETA Is A SlaughterhouseThe Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently disclosed that its employees killed more than 97 percent of the dogs, cats, and other pets they took in during 2006.
Congressman Michael Burgess charges the Humane Society shares the blame for biggest beef recall in history. He leveled his charges during a Capitol Hill hearing, saying the animal rights group did not act soon enough. Okay, granted, my source for this is the New York Times.
USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef from California slaughterhouse under investigationThis is the largest recall of meat ever. This is the slaughterhouse that is being investigated for slaughtering cattle that could not walk. It supplies meat to school programs under a federal contract.
USDA recalls 143 million pounds of beef - Health- msnbc.comThe U.S. Department of Agriculture announce largest beef recall ever. A recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Chino, CA slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle.
Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughterhouse - washingtonpost.comVideo footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; a …
USDA extends meat ban at Calif slaughterhouseCHINO – Federal officials extended a ban on use of meat from a Chino slaughterhouse shut down this week for allegedly mistreating cattle, and said the facility had been previously cited for using electric prods on animals.
Mad Cow Risk - Sick Cattle Used to Feed School ChildrenA hidden camera investigation by an animal rights group has uncovered disturbing treatment of ailing cows at a California slaughterhouse that provides meat for school lunches.
Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at SlaughterhouseVideo footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; a …
Pig-brain mist suspected in workers' diseaseI confess that I am incapable of bypassing any news story that couples "mist" and "Pig-brain" in its headline. Peculiar yes, but then so is the fact that inhalation of porcine neural tissue may result in debilitating nerve disorders.
My Brother's Not A TerroristMy brother is considered one of the biggest domestic terrorists in the country. You probably haven't heard of him, and I think that's odd.
Affleck commercial 'too graphic' for tv - Yahoo! News UKCasey Affleck's advertisement for animal rights campaigners People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) has been rejected from all major US TV outlets, because it is "too graphic".
Court Ruling Affecting State's Horse MarketHorse slaughter profits on the decline in Texas due to Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that slaughter for horsemeat is illegal in the state.
Hog Hell"This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle. Its depiction of unchecked greed and exploitation in the American meatpacking industry unfortunately remains relevant.
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