Some people in a new job find it hard to resist the temptation to offer advice and counsel to those performing their old job. While understandable, this is totally inappropriate when the advice comes from a federal judge and it is given to a federal prosecutor who regularly has cases before that judge…
The federal prosecutor who received a controversial email from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose comparing herself to the Hulk and advising lawyers not to make her angry has left her job with the U.S. Department of Justice…
The 5th anniversary of the Postville raid a few weeks ago recalled not only the notorious law enforcement blitz that crushed Postville and collapsed America’s largest kosher slaughterhouse. It also marked the inception of an aggressive campaign to turn the fiasco into a launching pad for a new Conservative “ethics” hechsher known as Magen Tzedek…
One of Iowa’s most prominent federal judges is accused of improperly playing the role of “prosecutor-in-chief” in criminal cases by ordering the U.S. Attorney’s Office to provide evidence that can result in longer prison sentences, court records show…
Last week’s commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the Postville raid has stimulated debate across the nation over whether anything has been learned from that infamous operation and its massive abuse of federal power…
Jim Wyrsch and J.R. Hobbs have been hired to represent the former owner of an Iowa meatpacking plant whose 27-year federal prison sentence on fraud charges has attracted worldwide attention…
With the assembling of a new and powerful legal team to launch a post-conviction motion known as a “2255 motion,” family, friends and supporters of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin are hopeful that this fresh legal effort will ultimately win him justice and freedom…
The clock is ticking for Sholom Rubashkin whose mandatory filing deadline for the Section 2255 is October 1, 2013. Jim Wyrsch and J.R. Hobbs of the prestigious Wyrsch Hobbs Mirakian law firm in Kansas City will be spearheading this effort…