They Became The Lords Of The Town

 Two decades ago, the Rubashkin family of Brooklyn opened up a kosher slaughterhouse amid the cornfields of Iowa — not exactly a center of Jewish culture.
 

The Rubashkin Children

The bearded, fedora-wearing strangers from Brooklyn quickly transformed Postville into its own small-town melting pot. Immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico began arriving in great numbers to work at the slaughterhouse. Soon, the town was home to churches and temples, and the shelves of the grocery stores were stocked with tortillas and bagels.

 

The Town Looks Like Guatemala City

The family's Iowa business, Agriprocessors, the nation's biggest supplier of kosher meat, was raided by U.S. immigration agents in May. Nearly 400 workers, mostly Guatemalans, were swept up and jailed and are likely to be deported as illegal immigrants.
 

Kids At The Plant

A few of the children have complained that they 'Were touched' by the managers at the Kosher plant.

Moshe Gets 15 Months

One of Aaron's sons, the influential Brooklyn rabbi Moshe Rubashkin, pleaded guilty to bank fraud in 2002 after writing $325,000 in bad checks related to a family textile business. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Menachim Is Off To Jail

A son-in-law, Menachim Balkany, a political fundraiser who hobnobbed with mayors and congressmen, was charged in 2003 with misusing a $700,000 federal grant. The prosecution was dropped when he agreed to make restitution.

 

Two Shooters

Two Jewish boys from Postville robbed a couple of nearby town's stores, and one punk put a 357 magnum bullet in a 75 year old grandmother.

Mad Cow Disease

Moshe Rubashkin pleaded guilty this year to storing hazardous waste without a permit at a defunct, family-owned textile plant in Allentown, Pa. His son pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents during the investigation.

Mad Cow disease
 

Child Molesters

These rural Iowa villages had never had a case of child molestation until these vampires arrived. Now their children can't play at parks, don't dare walk past a synagogue, and Halloween is a thing of the past.