Iowa’s Halal exporting company where for five years workers erased mandatory USDA Establishment numbers on products to hide the source of orders destined for Malaysia and Indonesia can continue in business. The U.S. Department of Agriculture came close to shutting down Midamar Corp. of Cedar Rapids, IA, which exports 200
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Yahya Nasser Aossey
Midamar, Islamic Services Hit With $600,000 Forfeiture in Halal Case
A preliminary order of forfeiture has been entered in the U.S. District Court for Northern Iowa requiring defendants Midamar Corporation and Islamic Services of America to pay a judgment of $600,000 to the federal government. Signed by Chief Judge Linda R. Reade, the order was entered after the business entities…
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Plea Agreements in Halal Case Could Mean Jail Time for Aossey Brothers
Outlines of the plea agreements between the government and brothers Jalel and Yahya Nasser Aossey were coming into focus ahead of today’s federal court hearings in Cedar Rapids, IA. Court documents suggest that Jalel Aossey and the corporate entities are each being allowed to plead guilty to a single count…
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Halal Beef Exporter Goes to Federal Criminal Trial in Iowa on July 7
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 denied defendant William B. Aossey Jr.’s motion to continue the trial for a third time…
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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 Court for Northern Iowa of 73-year-old Cedar Rapids businessman William B. Aossey Jr., which was…
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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. Under the agreement, Payne pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make and deliver…
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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 enforcement will continue to rely on these U.S. Department of Justice-led (DOJ) criminal cases in…
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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 Corporation and the related Islamic Services of America were arraigned on federal felony charges, pleaded…
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