Cedar Rapids


CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse executive was sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in prison for financial fraud, a sentence legal experts called severe but not necessarily surprising as judges take tough stances on white-collar crime.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Prosecutors asked a federal judge on Thursday to sentence a former kosher slaughterhouse executive to 25 years in prison, less than the life sentence they have said they were entitled to request.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - An accountant testified Thursday that prosecutors who won a conviction in the financial fraud trial of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager miscalculated the millions of dollars in losses suffered by a bank.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A former manger of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse who was convicted of financial fraud admitted he committed the fraud and that he knew illegal immigrants worked at the plant, a psychiatrist said during the executive's sentencing hearing.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A former executive of a kosher Iowa slaughterhouse who was convicted of financial fraud knew illegal immigrants worked at the plant, an admission that directly contradicts what he said under oath, a psychiatrist testified Wednesday at the executive's sentencing hearing.
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