WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Court officials say former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin is scheduled to stand trial May 4 on state child labor charges.
The trial is scheduled to be held in Waterloo, though it would be moved if an impartial jury can't be found.
Judge Nathan Callahan said Tuesday he would set aside three weeks for a trial in which Rubashkin and several managers, including Agriprocessors owner Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, face more than 9,000 counts of misdemeanor child labor law violations. Also charged are the company and three of its human resources workers.
Sholom Rubashkin was charged after an immigration raid at the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse in Postville in May 2008.
He was convicted in November in federal court in South Falls, S.D., on 86 financial fraud charges.
