The man who built a worldwide Halal beef exporting company from Iowa will go to federal criminal trial in Cedar Rapids on July 7, beginning with jury selection. Federal Magistrate Judge Jon Stuart Scoles has
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Feds Want to Keep Seized Midamar Emails For Now
The government on Tuesday asked a federal magistrate to deny an emergency motion seeking the return of emails taken last week when search warrants were executed at the Midamar Corporation in Cedar Rapids, IA. Defense…
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Iowa Halal Producer Gets Hearing on Seized Emails
A motion for an emergency protective order, which is being sought by attorneys for Midamar Corp. executives, will be heard Tuesday by a federal magistrate judge in Cedar Rapids, IA. Midamar founder William B. Aossey…
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Defense: Halal Case Documents Swept Up in Iowa Federal Raids
Defense attorneys for the Halal meat exporter charged with fraud and conspiracy are upset because they say confidential attorney-client emails and other documents were swept up earlier this week when Midamar Corporation and two other…
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Founder of Iowa’s ‘Halal’ Beef-Exporting Businesses Gets Trial Postponed
The first to be charged might now be the last to be tried in the Iowa cases involving the allegedly falsified sale of “Halal” beef to markets in Southeast Asia. The trial in U.S. District…
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Ex-Midamar Operations Manager Will Testify Against Former Employers
The U.S. District Court for Northern Iowa has accepted the government’s plea bargain with a former Midamar Corp. operations manager, clearing the way for 50-year-old Philip Payne to become a witness against his former employers.
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DOJ Food-Safety Enforcement Role to Continue in 2015
When producers of such staple foods as beef, eggs, and peanut butter found they were the targets of federal criminal prosecution, it became a top food-safety story of 2014. But is it likely that food-safety…
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All Defendants Plead Not Guilty in Halal Case
The federal courts often move too slowly for some, but that was not the case Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Iowa. in just 18 minutes, officers of the Cedar Rapids, IA-based Midamar…
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Federal Prosecutors Add Four Defendants to Alleged Halal Mislabeling Case
The government’s prosecution over alleged mislabeling of Halal beef for export to Southeast Asia just got bigger. Brothers Jalel and William “Yahya” Aossey, along with the Midamar Corporation and Islamic Services of America, will be…
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Trial of Halal Businessman in Iowa Postponed to March
The October indictment of the founder of a Halal business based in Iowa will not be followed by a December trial. Citing the “complex nature of this case” and the “need for extended pretrial preparations,”…
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