By COLlive reporter in New York
A Jewish website claims to confirm rumors that Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin has been transferred to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Otisville, NY.
“We received an email from a fellow inmate and a visitor who had a visual confirmation of him being there,” YiddishReport.com reported Monday night.
The short report added that “we also can confirm with certainty that a set of linen and clothing were initialed with his name today.”
Rumors had been circulating throughout Monday as to the whereabouts of Rubashkin, and COLlive received a few emails from people who heard he was transferred to the upstate NY facility.
Rubashkin, former manager of the Agriprocessors meat plant in Iowa, was sentenced to 27 years on federal financial fraud. His lawyers are appealing the sentence as unfair and excessive.
Rubashkin, 51 and a father of 10, was imprisoned at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City after a long stint in the Linn Correctional Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
As of Tuesday 12:42 AM, the online Inmate Locator of the Federal Bureau of Prisons website read:
NAME: Sholom Rubashkin
Register #: 10755-029
Age-Race-Sex: 50-White-M
Release Date: Unknown
Location: OKLAHOMA CITY FTC
In a conversation Monday afternoon, Leah Rubashkin told COLlive.com she heard the rumor of her husband’s transfer but could not confirm it.
“We spoke at around 8 o’clock this morning from Oklahoma,” she said. “I mentioned to him the possibility of a transfer but he said they usually do so only in the morning hours.”
She said she has not heard from him since, and says she has not been notified of any change of location, nor has anyone in her family or Rubashkin’s lawyers.
Rubashkin requested to serve his sentence in FCI in Otisville, a medium security facility housing white-collar male criminals, said to house some 58 Jews, many from the frum community.
“Otisville is very close to New York City, so it has more access to a Jewish population, to rabbis, and to kosher food,” says a rabbi who deals with prison accommodations. “The Bureau of Prisons kind of unofficially designated it to meet the needs of Orthodox Jews.”
a friend of mine just went to otisville, there are 36 jewish inmates
Sholom and his family have suffered enough!
Enough is Enough!!
I still say Linda Reade zol chapen ah mapoloh!!!!
a)transfers dont just happen from 1 minute to the next is a long process b)the sentancing judge has to agree and in this case we saw and continue to see her true colors which for all practical purposes would still put him in oklahoma if the request is granted the prisoner knows about it b4 hand that said keydua shasknim ovdim moed kushee she hu magiya lemokom hanal but possible that confirmation is premature lets leave it alone may hashem bring about an immediate yeshua for sholom and all yidden amen ps otisville used to be very popular amongst shelunu… Read more »
what they call the diesel treatment were the take you for a LONG ride to your destination say tehillim for him
It’s good new because now he’s in a place that has better access to kosher food and has some form of a Jewish community
BH he has been sent to the place they wanted him to go to. They have Frum Jews……unfortunately, Kosher food and can have visitors more easily. I only hope no one starts laying the law down and demanding too much for SMR as C’V they might move him somewhere not suitable. Let him lie low for a bit and if he has to be in prison let him be among his own people.
please post an address and details as soon as known, thanks
its not good news as he is in the middle of nowhere again!
why is it good??
so its good news! why the mistery?
My wife and I wrote a letter to SR last week and it was returned to us. Now we know why.
I encourage everyone to find out the new address, and write him some mail.
At least they are transferring him to a “better” facility. I dont believe a big fuss should be made about it. Locate him, confirm the rumors, tell them you are not happy no one was informed and drop it. This way next time something is needed they will not call us ungrateful, and hopefully be willing to grant a request without a fight.