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Category Archives: Yisroel Pensack
Fort Hood Massacre
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by … Continue reading
Posted in FBI, Journalism, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged congressional hearings, Fort Hood, Frances Fragos Townsend, homeland security, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Senate committee, senator joseph lieberman
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U.S. Attorney Nominee for Northern Iowa Criticized Over Agriprocessors Immigration Raid
The New York Times reports: Eleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama’s nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Immigration, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged associated press, civil rights, criminal charges, Democrat, eleventh-hour, felony identity-theft charges, Iowa, kosher, meatpacking plant, nominee, northern Iowa, postville, President Obama, prosecutor, Senator Tom Harkin, Sioux Falls, South Dakota State Penitentiary, Stephanie Rose, Supreme Court, United States attorney, victims of exploitation, Woodbury County Jail
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Yisroel Pensack: The New York Times’ Coverage of the Fort Hood Massacre — A Profile in Journalistic Courage
"Was Major [Nidal Malik] Hasan a terrorist…?" The New York Times courageously asked yesterday. Duuuhhhhh.
Posted in Articles, Journalism, New York Times, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged Fort Hood Massacre, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, profile in jounalistic courage
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Sholom Rubashkin Convicted of 86 Federal Charges in Fraud Scheme Involving Postville, Iowa, Kosher Meat Plant
The Des Moines Register reports: Sioux Falls, S.D. A jury has convicted Sholom Rubashkin of 86 federal charges for his part in a massive fraud scheme at his former meat plant, Agriprocessors Inc., in Postville. Jurors declared Rubashkin guilty … Continue reading
Posted in Agriprocessors, Chabad, Immigration, Yisroel Pensack
Tagged bank fraud, des moines register, federal, guilty, mail fraud, meat plant, money laundering, postville, Rabbi Shea Hecht, Sholom Rubashkin, Sioux Falls, wire fraud
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