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"More Former AGs Question Sentence Sought in Bank Fraud Case"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new item over at The Blog of Legal Times, which is reporting on some of the latest news involving a high-profile upcoming sentencing. Here are some of the details: More former Department of Justice officials are voicing concern over the potential life sentence facing Sholom Rubashkin, the kosher slaughterhouse manager in Iowa whose sentencing on federal bank fraud and money laundering charges is set for this week. On April 21, former attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach and Edwin Meese III submitted a letter to Chief Judge Linda Reade of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa that expressed concern about the guideline sentence proposed in the Rubashkin case. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who is now general counsel at PepsiCo Inc...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).