USDA’s food inspection and protection arm profiles its painters in the paintings to help the public perceive the agency’s complex mission. Two FSIS painters who deserve profiling are Paul Flanagan and Scott C. Safian.

They are agents of the FSIS Office of Investigation, Compliance and Audit (IAEA) and occupy what may be the most disruptive food protection jobs in the United States, making Amos Miller and Miller’s Organic Farm compliant with U. S. food protection regulations. U. S. And U. S. Food Protection.

The genuine Amos Miller was nevertheless revealed thanks to the paintings of Flanagan and Safian.

In June expired, Miller was found in contempt of court for violating an April 2020 consent order and the November 2019 court order.

And Judge Edward G. Smith doesn’t allow Miller to forget this court’s order. Miller has 30 days to pay a $250,000 fine for contempt and reimburse $14,436. 26 to FSIS for Flanagan and Safian’s recent investigative work. court order, as it has done in the past, a stay at the Greybar Hotel, also known as a prison, will likely be Miller’s in the near future.

When this all started before 2016, Miller, according to some food freedom activists, was just an Amish farmer who protected the butchery methods of religion; it’s an insult to Amish farmers who comply with USDA regulations.

Legal moves over the past six years or more have proven that Amos Miller and his finances are simple.

Miller’s Organic Farm is Miller’s “alter ego” and records his tax returns on Miller’s behalf, according to the extensive factual record that has been compiled through FSIS investigators.

Miller’s “private partnership” is a club of buyers whose members do percentage of the estate’s profits or have the right to vote on decisions relating to the estate’s affairs and who:

At least until the court order, Miller’s sold its meat and poultry products only to members of Miller’s personal association, adding food cooperatives that participated or were in a different way members of Miller’s personal association.

Miller fulfilled orders by phone, email, fax and web by shipping by itself or arranging delivery for shipment of purchased products.

Instead, the miller’s farm in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, turned out to be “large and interstate” with interstate sales of meat, poultry and food products.

In addition to his Bird-in-Hand, PA farm, Miller owns an adjacent farm that he acquired for $1. 45 million in September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Miller testified that he financed $1. 4 million from the acquisition price. He would have deposited $500,000 at the time of the acquisition last year,” according to court documents.

Miller’s 50% co-ownership of Burke’s Garden Farms in Tazewell, Virginia, who purchased Virginia’s agricultural assets in 2015 for $2. 5 million, is revealed.

Miller has a $200,000 line of credits and is lately making “major capital improvements” to the bird farm in hand, adding a building to house his daughters’ upcoming weddings. Miller testified that the wedding construction will charge between $100,000 and $200,000.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) court order determined:

Food protection is largely based on voluntary compliance. Once regulators are confident that they understand how to comply, the agreement to do so boils down to little more than a handshake.

You can’t put enough cops in the food protection rate to monitor everyone, especially if the wrongdoers are everywhere. We can be glad that this is not the case, but we can also be grateful to talented researchers like Paul Flanagan and Scott C. . they are at work.

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