CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge in Cedar Rapids has sentenced a former Agriprocessors, Inc., employee to one year of probation for helping to hire illegal aliens at the kosher slaughterhouse in Postville.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jon Stuart Scoles imposed the sentence Friday on 31-year-old Karina Freund of Fayette.
Freund, who was an employee in the human resources department at the Postville plant, pleaded guilty in December 2008 to one misdemeanor count of aiding and abetting a pattern of hiring undocumented aliens.
The Agriprocessors plant was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008. It now has a new owner, which bought it out of bankruptcy last year.
