Meat sellers testify in slaughterhouse trial

(AP) - Two meat sellers testified in the trial of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager that they didn't know the plant used their names on allegedly bogus documents intended to defraud a lending bank.

The men testified Monday in U.S. District Court that they were unaware the Agriprocessors, Inc., plant attached their names to allegedly fake invoices that were then shown to a bank as proof the company had more money on the way.

Former Agriprocessors top manager Sholom Rubashkin faces 91 financial fraud charges, including bank fraud. Monday began the second week of his trial.

Yisrael Kagan of Glatt Western Kosher in Los Angeles and Aaron Tzivin of the Crown Heights House of Glatt in Brooklyn, N.Y, testified in court on Monday.

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