Op ed Washington Post
107 former Justice officials think this case was handled unjustly. DOJ must act.
Last week, President Obama granted clemency to 153 individuals who had been incarcerated under mandatory minimum drug-sentencing laws, bringing to more than 1,100 the number of clemency petitions the administration has granted. “You don’t just try to hammer everybody for as long as you can, because you can,” Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates told the New York Times.
That is the right attitude for someone tasked with the fair administration of justice. Unfortunately, Yates and Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch have, for the past year, rebuffed efforts by me and many other former senior Justice Department officials to even discuss another prosecution in which justice fell far short: the case of Sholom Rubashkin, a Brooklyn-born rabbi who was sentenced to 27 years for bank fraud.
Rubashkin, a 57-year-old father of 10, has already served seven years for the crime, which ordinarily merits no more than three years. Worse, his sentence was based on perjured testimony and prosecutorial misconduct. Read more at the washington post
Rubashkin State Labor Case Expunged
ReplyDeleteby Debbie Maimon
http://matzav.com/rubashkin-state-labor-case-expunged/
Rubashkin: The Case That Haunts
by Debbie Maimon
https://yated.com/rubashkin-case-haunts/
Alan Dershowitz Joins Call for Obama to Pardon
Imprisoned Iowa Kosher Meat Plant CEO:
www.algemeiner.com/2016/11/28/alan-dershowitz-joins-call-for-obama-to-pardon-imprisoned-iowa-kosher-meat-plant-ceo/
Perfidy in Iowa Archives
(in defense of Shlomo Mordechai Rubashkin):
https://yated.com/category/perfidy-in-iowa/
Israel is being buried-alive under an avalanche of media bias and false accusations.
ReplyDeleteThese web sites can help refute those biases and false accusations:
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PLEASE HELP DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR MEDIA:
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http://advocacy.ou.org/
www.camera.org
www.DanielPipes.org
www.FactsAndLogic.org
www.HonestReporting.com
www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com
www.memri.org
www.memriTV.org
www.MideastReporter.com
www.MythsAndFacts.org
www.TheIsraelProject.org
https://twitter.com/EyeOnHamas
https://antisemitism.uk/
www.BBCwatch.org
www.UKMediaWatch.org
www.jhrw.com
www.ngo-monitor.org
www.PalWatch.org
www.UNwatch.org
www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html