A Lebanese man in the United States has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for arranging to send weapons to a Hezbollah member in Lebanon.
According to prosecutors, Fadi Yassine, 43, colluded with others to arrange a shipment of firearms from the Iowa state city of Cedar Rapids to Lebanon to resell them to the Shia militia group, designated as a terrorist organization in the US.
What is most shocking about this short sentence is the judge in the case –
the notorious Linda Reade.
Reade is infamous for her role in the trial of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. In that trial, one where the plaintiff was not charged with violent, terror related crimes, the US District Judge saw fit to give a 27 year sentence. Rabbi Rubashkin still languishes in prison.
and publish it in the major media news outlets.
She is obviously a bad judge and the american public should be told about her, not just Chabad!
TO LINDA READE
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
WHEN SMR IS WALKING FREE,
With tchiyas hameisim of the Rebbe, she will be judged.
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Revoke her license forever , where is democrathy ?
There is no way that a white color crime has more stringent guideline that involvement in a terrorist attack. Totally and beyond disproportionate. Can’t even compare. We have to cry out to Hashem to end this galus now and bring Sholom Mordechai home to his family today!
you write “THEN OK”
then ok??????
are you crazy?
it was never, is never, and wll never be okay, what was done and is being done to sholom mordechai, his family, the devastated and wiped out city of postville, and all Jews! it’s a TRAVESTY
it is not “then ok”! ever!
a man broke into my house and beat up my husband demanding money.
this man is now free.
but Sholom Mordechai sits in prison.
very very sick justice system here
May someone please clarify for me, why are we only aigning petitions to free Rubashkin, shouldnt we also be making petitions to get this madwoman out of the US Judicial system or else were all doomed! What a meshugena anti semite!
NO QUESTION ABOUT IT!!! SHE IS A ANTI-SEMITE!!!! LET HER DIE THIS SECOND AND GO TO………….. AMEN!!!!
so they say, that in America “Justice is Blind” but I think that in this case, the Judge is not just blind but has her head screw on wrong!
no wonder potential terrorists are willing to get involved in their dirty work; what’s five years for helping send arms to terrorists who, in turn, use those arms to kill dozens of innocents. which group of morons voted this law into being? Ogden Nash said it well: The law is so in love with the law it’s forgotten common sense.”
It goes together someone cruel to innocent is pitting the cruel
So many congressmen prosecutors law professor’s and more and more say the verdict of Sholom Mordche is outrageous was a blood libel
She gave him the maximum penalty. Can’t be because she hates Jews.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BENEFICIAL FOR COL TO HAVE A COMMENT FROM A LAWYER AS TO WHAT THE MAXIMUM SENTENCING WAS IN THIS CASE, THEN WE WOULD SEE IF THERE IS A REASON TO BE UPSET ABOUT HER RULING. WITHOUT THAT KNOWLEDGE THIS ARTICLE IS MEANINGLESS.
when ne is in prison he is safe and protected, fed, given a bed and roof. when he is on the streets here, his life is his own to protect.
Allis Moron who is the rabbi of a conservative synagogue in MN and in charge of hechsher (his own hashgacha) was one of the first people to bring negative attention to agri and postville. He wouldn’t let up and made negative pr for Sholom Rubashkin. After that he got PETA involved, the Feds, etc. he’s the real instigator here. Sadddest part is, he’s a Jew and was and is so passionate about Sholom rubashkin being guilty and worthy of his sentence (ch”v)
A shame they didn’t speak to jack lew….
I also believe most of these cold hearted comments are coming from one ‘outsider’ . Of course the entire community is with rubashkin and can logically see that this judge is scum., And we pray that that will be exposed and he’ll be released.
Colluding and taking actions to “commit” terrorism is a crime, and where it involves multi states there is an extra felony charge involved.
The maximum sentence for conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act is 5 years. Why the outrage?
Yassine pleaded guilty and took a deal. Supposedly SMR was also offered a plea deal and declined.
One “committed” a crime and one “attempted” to commit a crime…maybe that’s why it’s different ?
And hafiz Saeed founder of terror group is running a new political party
let’s make a facebook page against her and if it gets 50000 likes she’ll be fired!
(or something dumb like that that we keep seeing here)
I don’t know why people are focusing on his sentence that is not going to help, we should focus on trying to get him out of jail, with hashems help
At what point does Shalom Rubashkin’s case and what happened to him see the light of day? It was plain and simple a travesty of justice, same as Pollard. We are not safe and will not be until Moshiach. It is ridiculous. He should never have had to serve a day.
She got away with presiding a case she was not permitted to judge and now this. Corruption at its worst. But there is a lesson in here for us- just because someone in power is making a judgement and everyone else seems to be in agreement, or at least, letting it stand- does not mean that there is any truth or justice to it. Never just follow the crowd like a sheep, Find out the facts first, and if you can’t, don’t judge.
But we all believe Moshiach is coming now! May Rabbi Rubashkin be zoche to serve the Shor Habar at the seuda today.
Wow,Hashem is going to really,really punish her!
from the kosher buchters in nyc, as they wanted rubashkin out of business, because his prices were cheaper,l’m not at liberty to tell you how l know, this includes the ou too, they didnt like the way the animal was hoist, but rubashkin says this is what the us agri wanted, are they sorry, l don’t know, ,l’m sure hashem will even out the score, it’s very sad, anti-semic are all over, it takes very little to stir them up,
The terrorist is NOT Jewish, I know about it,know the family
He should be released immediately!
You need to check the maximum sentencing for each case to see if she granted the terrorist any leniencies. It’s possible that she gave him the maximum sentence possible, in which case this article is just plain stupid.
Attacking this judge will not help Rubashkin’s cause.
this happens all to often:/
and there’s no justice in the judicial system.
its mind boggling how white collar crimes get more than and vehicular manslaughter or worse crimes.
Absolutely terrible! What a discust!
It may just be the same one or two ppl writing those cold comments,probably most ppl are outraged and the response is that federal law has harsh sentences but so does terrorism!
7 the answer is you cant its man made law.a decision can be based on the mood of the judge literally. its very scary!! unfortunately i speak from experience with the secular court system. we are in galus we need to pray and hope for the mashiach to come asap!
her karma is getting ripe.
she needs to be exposed. nobody is paying attention, but they should and they will.
You are 100 percent right. The appeals taking place are looking at her behavior. She has shown bias with regards to her husband who was involved with the prosecutors office. The question is what other biases exist. I’m sure there are many
First of all how dare you even use the connotation that the other commenters and myself did not and are not doing what we can to help. #2. There is an important point unless you stam want to lament and blame other for self righteous enrichment. If we would like to prove that she is bias in her federal guidelines following you have to be able to show a trend that she is following. It is important to understand her comments and her following of the federal guidelines. Because they are just that guidelines and not rules. A judge has… Read more »
How can one believe in the judicial system after this…
I am broken while reading these comments.
Broken because instead of focusing on the fact that there is a father/grandfather/husband bal chessed in prison for 27 years when he deserved less then 3 for his crime, your all focusing on the wrong point!
Try God help him and his family out! Not justify this judge
We also have to know what her comments about the case and her sentencing of this terrorist, were.
If she said for example that she gave the max, and which she could have given much more, then OK.
But if she said anything that indicates she is OK with him getting 5 years and not more, then her own words would convict her as an antisemite.
We should all be doing more to free Sholom R but its stupid to make connotations from other cases.
This story is missing an important piece. What were the sentencing guidelines. Federal court is very specific. In Sholom Mordechai’s case I believe Its range had a max of 27 years and she gave the max. What was this terrorists range. That would tell us about her.
If you’re charged with a federal crime, it’s much more time. Simple as that. Different crimes have different punishments. Not saying what she did Is right in any way shape or form. Dwelling over things that will have literally no effect won’t help.
She is now being exposed as a true anti-Semite considering the difference in sentencing.