Associated Press - November 19, 2009 12:04 PM ET
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Prosecutors have dismissed all 72 immigration charges against a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager.
The move came after Sholom Rubashkin's conviction last week in federal court on financial fraud charges.
Prosecutors filed the motion Thursday morning, one day after a bail hearing for Rubashkin, the former manager of Agriprocessors, Inc.
Rubashkin was scheduled to go on trial for the immigration charges on Dec. 2 in Sioux Falls, S.D.
The Agriprocessors plant was the site of a massive immigration raid in May 2008.
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