Article: Supervisor: Workers given fraudulent cards

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A former kosher slaughterhouse supervisor testified Thursday that the plant scrambled to get workers new identification documents the night before a massive immigration raid.

Former Agriprocessors, Inc., supervisor Carlos Guerrero-Espinoza said managers provided permanent resident cards to 20 employees and had them fill out new applications the night before the May 2008 raid at the Iowa plant, where nearly 400 workers were arrested. Guerrero-Espinoza said the cards were fake and made in Minneapolis a week before the raid.

His testimony came in the third week of former manager Sholom Rubashkin's federal trial on 91 financial fraud charges.

Prosecutors have been introducing ...

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