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The former chief executive of the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant is facing dozens of additional charges of fraud and money laundering in a new federal indictment.
Former Agriprocessors CEO Sholom Rubashkin is being held on 12 counts of bank fraud, harboring illegal immigrants, document fraud and identity theft after a May 2008 federal raid at the Agriprocessors plant that netted nearly 400 illegal immigrant workers -- including 18 juveniles.
The new indictment adds 86 counts of bank fraud, money laundering and violating an order of the U.S. secretary of Agriculture. Rubashkin’s attorney said that his client denies all charges.
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