Rubashkin to get 27 years in prison for fraud
Sholom Rubashkin, former Agriprocessors vice president, is to be sentenced to 27 years in federal prison on 86 counts of bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering and livestock payment failures. Restitution exceeds 26 million to two banks and a livestock supplier. The May 2008 immigration raid at Postville plant led to the arrest of over 400 illegal workers.
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Trish Mehaffey
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Trict
Linda Reade
Rubashkin
Postville
Agriprocessors
Post- Tasianian
Leah Rubashkin
Linn County Correctional Center
Sholom Rubashkin
Mendel
States pay big for post prison sex treatment
States expanded civil commitment for sex offenders in the 1990s as a costly get-tough policy. AP analysis shows 20 programs will spend nearly 500 million this year to confine and treat about 5,200 offenders, with per offender costs ranging up to 175000 annually. The rise strains budgets during a recession and faces political pushback.
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Martiya Lohn
Associated Press
New York
California
Minnesota
Iowa
Virginia
W. Lawrence Fitch
University of Maryland School of Law
Czech Village seeks return as flood damages loom
In Cedar Rapids Iowa the Czech Village district faces demolition threats as nearby homes on A to C streets and 17th to 22nd avenues SW could fall on the imminent threat list. Business owners fear the area may become an island as 60 of ~150 homes remain abandoned since the 2008 flood.
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the Gazette
21St Avenue
Czech Village
Cedar Rapids
Cindy Hadish
T's
Edar Rapids
17Th
22Nd Avenues
Inside Companies Question Federal Warnings On Gulf Spill Size
AP analysis frames spill against vast water volumes. It notes BP leak estimates up to 126.3 million gallons since April 20, with totals around 68 million gallons in optimistic tallies, while the Mississippi River and EPA figures show enormous inflows into the Gulf. The piece cites BP CEO Tony Hayward calling the spill relatively tiny in comparison to the ocean.
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Washington
Gulf
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Associated Press
Mississippi
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Tony Hayward
Hayward
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