NEW YORK _ An influential kosher slaughterhouse king from Brooklyn was freed from prison after his fraud conviction was commuted by President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Sholom Rubashkin, 57, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for 86 counts of financial crimes as well as lying on the witness stand in 2009.
On Wednesday, Trump commuted his sentence, leaving in place a period of supervised release, according to The Yeshiva World, which first reported the move.
Before his conviction, Rubashkin ran a massive kosher meat-processing company in Iowa.
The father of 10 has long had political support.
Reps. Jerrold Nadler, Eliot Engel, Carolyn Maloney, and Yvette Clarke have lobbied for a review of his case.
Rubashkin has also been backed by the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community that has its headquarter in Crown Heights.
He was arrested in October 2008, five months after the Department of Justice and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided his Iowa plant and arrested nearly 400 illegal immigrants.
An Iowa state jury cleared him of criminal charges he knowingly used underage immigrants.
Jurors said Rubashkin couldn't be held responsible if teens, some as young as 15, lied and got jobs with fake IDs.
But an Iowa federal jury found him guilty of a $26 million financial scheme of inflating accounts and laundering money.
His supporters have long contended that not only was the federal sentence excessive, but that Linda Reade, the judge who issued it, never should have heard the case.
She had met numerous times with DOJ and ICE officials before the raid, but did not disclose the extent of the conversations until Rubashkin's appeal team filed a Freedom of Information request.
