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CEDAR RAPIDS (KWWL) -- A federal judge has now dismissed all 72 charges of immigration violations against form Agriprocessor's CEO Sholom Rubashkin.
Prosecutors filed a motion this morning to dismiss all 72 immigration charges against the former kosher slaughterhouse manager.
The move came after Sholom Rubashkin's conviction last week in federal court on financial fraud charges.
Prosecutors filed the motion Thursday morning, one day after a bail hearing for Rubashkin. They say since Rubashkin already faces more than 1,200 years in prison for financial fraud, that would eclipse any time he would face for the immigration charges.
Prosecutors also say the dismissal would avoid a long and costly trial.
Rubashkin was found guilty by a federal jury on 86 of 91 counts of financial fraud. A sentencing date has not been set.
Rubashkin was scheduled to go on trial for the immigration charges on Dec. 2 in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Agriprocessors plant was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008.
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