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Associated Press - November 12, 2009 6:34 PM ET
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A jury has reached a verdict in the case of former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager Sholom Rubashkin, who has been charged with 91 counts of financial fraud.
The jury reached its verdict late Thursday afternoon and Rubashkin, his lawyers and prosecutors were gathering at the federal courthouse in Sioux Falls, where the nearly monthlong trial was held.
Rubashkin faces 91 charges of bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering and ignoring orders to pay cattle providers in the time required by federal law.
The charges were linked to Rubashkin's job as a top manager at the former Agriprocessor's plant in Postville, Iowa. He was arrested months after a May 2008 immigration raid that led to the arrest of 389 workers.
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