Sioux Falls, S.D. — Jurors continued to weigh the financial fraud case against Sholom Rubashkin on Tuesday but did not reach a verdict for the former eastern Iowa slaughterhouse executive.

The five-man, seven-woman pool spent the day behind closed doors at the federal courthouse in downtown Sioux Falls. The evidence before them includes testimony from 64 prosecution and defense witnesses and reams of financial records from the now-defunct Agriprocessors Inc. in Postville.

They resume deliberations Thursday after today's Veterans Day holiday.

Federal prosecutors have charged Rubashkin with 91 financial crimes, including bank, mail and wire fraud, failing to pay cattle providers in the time required by law, and money laundering. He has pleaded not guilty.

Deliberations started on Monday afternoon. U.S. District Chief Judge Linda Reade dismissed three alternate jurors who sat through the nearly month-long trial, but said she might call one or more back if circumstances force out other jurors.

The original panel the trial lawyers chose had 16 jurors - 12 regulars and four alternates. One juror was dismissed earlier in the trial after she reportedly contracted H1N1 flu.

Jurors asked Reade at least one question Tuesday about an instruction she gave them for applying the law. Reade told them to reread the instruction. Jurors' questions are common during deliberations.

Rubashkin, 50, managed day-to-day operations at Agriprocessors Inc. He resigned after a May 2008 raid that caught 389 illegal immigrants. The plant filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after its largest creditor, St. Louis-based First Bank Business Capital, filed a lawsuit alleging fraud.

A new owner has bought the northeast Iowa plant and renamed it Agri Star.

Prosecutors allege that Rubashkin falsified sales records so the bank would lend more, paid certain managers under the table, and tried to hide his tracks by a financial shell game.

Defense attorneys say Rubashkin was an inept manager who was too swamped with lawsuits, environmental violations and other company problems to have committed fraud.