Sholom Rubashkin is in prison for 27 years....

Sholom Rubashkin is in prison for 27 years because of unethical, overzealous actions by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the trial judge. New evidence shows that Judge Linda Reade was actively engaged in the planning for the May 2008 raid on Agriprocessors and participated in preparations for the raid. The Des Moines Register last week published an important story that showed the treatment of Sholom Rubashkin is part of a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Iowa.

Read the full Des Moines Register article: http://bit.ly/aEE82e

It is time for the Department of Justice to correct this injustice and provide fair justice for Sholom Rubashkin. Already, prominent legal voices are speaking out against the unlawful actions of Chief Judge Linda Reade and the prosecutors in the Rubashkin case. They include Mark Harrison, the former chairman of the American Bar Association’s Commission to Revise the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, and Professor Stephen Gillers, one of the most frequently quoted authority on legal ethics, who teaches at New York University Law School. These ethics experts concluded that Judge Reade violated the Code of Judicial Conduct and the prosecutors engaged in misconduct.

Read their sworn affidavits here: http://bit.ly/cu1z2I (Harrison) and http://bit.ly/aRhQvW (Gillers). And the case is drawing the eye of lawmakers, like Rep. Anthony Weiner and Rep. Tim Murphy, who wrote letters to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, seeking an investigation by the Department of Justice into prosecutorial misconduct in the Rubashkin case.

Read the letters here: http://bit.ly/cFmJUf (Weiner) and http://bit.ly/9TnA4e (Murphy)
Help those seeking Justice for Sholom Rubashkin by writing to your senators and congressmen and tell them to contact the Department of Justice to request a government investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in the Rubashkin case!

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR SHOLOM RUBASHKIN:

1. Contact your senators and U.S. representative, and ask them to send a letter to Attorney General Holder requesting an investigation.

2. Go on Facebook and Twitter and ask your friends to contact their lawmakers as well.

3. Forward this e-mail to family, friends and fellow supporters of Sholom Rubashkin.

4. Ask your friends and family to visit http://www.justiceforsholom.org/ and sign up to receive e-mails like this one. Please note: It is not appropriate to send e-mails or other correspondence to the judge in this case or the appellate court.

Please direct all e-mails to your local senator or congressman or the Department of Justice Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison at oipl@usdoj.gov. Please keep your comments respectful at all times. Together, we can show prosecutors and the legal community that concerned citizens are watching the case of Sholom Rubashkin, and that he deserves “equal and fair administration of justice under the law.”