By COLlive reporter
The Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam met with the imprisoned businessman Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin on Tuesday.
Visiting from his hometown of Netanya, the Sanzer Rebbe traveled to the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, a medium security facility in Orange County, NY, which has a significant amount of frum inmates.
The warden allowed the Sanzer Rebbe to enter along with another 5 men. Cameras and recording devices were not allowed, according to Israel website bhol.co.il.
6 inmates, including Rubashkin, joined the visitors for Mincha prayer in one of the prison wings, the website reported.
The Sanzer Rebbe then had a personal conversation with Rubashkin, former executive of a now-bankrupt meat packing plant in Iowa, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for bank fraud in a case which has been widely decried as unjust.
The “chizuk” conversation lasted for 30 minutes, the website reported.
In related news, Congressman Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa) recently sent a letter to the Attorney General Eric Holder asking for an investigation into the Rubashkin case.
This is the 50th letter written by a U.S. lawmaker to review the questionable manner in which Judge Linda Reade tried the case.
Holder or the Department of Justice have yet to respond to the public calls.
now!
america is the most advanced country but the justice system here is still so corrupt… what is this??? he should not be in prison. america should arrest the real criminals, not the innocent people.
sholom moredchai is a tzaddik and a TRUE insparation to all !but we all have to do ALL what we can to get him out he is truly suffering!
The plant is not bankrupt and sholom mordechai’s name lives on there and he will join us in song and dance very very soon
ad mosaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!
very sad but true point
never thought of that :((
A big reason why Obama needs to leave the White House is just so Holder should leave too.
Fifty letters sent to the DOJ yet not even one response from his office.
He’s nothing but a fancy guy with a moustache.
BS”D
Boruch Hashem!
More Achuds, Moshiach NOW!
How corrupt can this “system” of our USA government be already?
This administration got most of its funding for the election from the unions. do you honestly expect them to do. Do you honestly expect them to start some fight with the unions the eve of presidential elections ’12?
This is nice too hear . I hope we get answers quick from the
” Department of Justice” Moshiach Now!