The Associated Press
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — After fleeing to Israel following an immigration raid in 2008, a former manager at a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa finally appeared in a U.S. courtroom here on May 3 Friday to face charges that he conspired to exploit immigrant workers for profit.
Hosam Amara, the 48-year-old former poultry production manager at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him with conspiring to harbor workers who were in the country illegally and conspiring to provide false immigration papers at what was the nation’s largest. . .

