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Agent: Agriprocessors Rejected Fake Documents

Shown is the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008, in Postville, Iowa. A May 12, 2008 raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Agriprocessors, the world's largest kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, was the largest immigration raid in U.S. history at the time. Agriprocessors is Postville's biggest employer. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Agent: Agriprocessors Rejected Fake Documents

By Daren Sukhram

Story Created: Nov 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM CST

SIOUX FALLS (AP) - A U.S. Customs Enforcement agent says a federal informant was rejected twice for a job at an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse after presenting fake documents.

The agent, Michael Fischels, testified Wednesday that the informant was hired on the third try after presenting legitimate documents provided by investigators.

Fischels testified for the defense during the federal fraud trial of former Agriprocessors Inc. manager Sholom Rubashkin.

Rubashkin is on trial in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls, S.D., for 91 counts of financial fraud.

Fischels was a lead investigator in the case that led to an immigration raid at the Postville, Iowa, plant in 2008.

Fischels testified that the informant entered the plant wearing a hidden recorder and transmitter.

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