[Video below.] Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin deserves the prison time he received Tuesday in federal court, prosecutors said after Judge Linda Reade sentenced him to 27 years.
Bob Teig, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, said the case “cries out for a sentence like this.”
“It is a lengthy sentence,” Teig said. “But he earned a lengthy sentence. It’s hard to get a 27-year sentence for a white-collar crime. It is very difficult.”
Defense lawyers have vowed to appeal, and railed against the sentence in a press conference with at least 100 supporters yesterday
“While this may appear to be the end of the case, it is not,” defense lawyer Guy Cook said. “It is indeed the beginning of the case. It’s round one, if you will.”
Bob Barr, a former Georgia congressman who joined Rubashkin’s legal team for the appeal, said the sentence was “unjust, unnecessary, and unreasonable.” He held up a copy of Reade’s ruling and said, “This will not stand.”
Click below to view a report of yesterday’s press conference:
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Teig along with Reade, Deagan and their chevra, will all burn in Gehenom.
My blessing to judge Reade and the AUSA is one of long life longer than your children and grandchildren. Shame on you both you are a stain on the integrity of American Jurisprudence.
G-d should give this LinDA READE all the [deleted by moderator] that are available to a US citizen.