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An Iowa farmer who operated an unlicensed custom cattle operation known as “Fawn Hollow” in Clayton County pled guilty on Dec. 1 in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Michael Wayne
Prosecutors allege Michael Butikofer, who operated an animal-feeding operation called Fawn Hollow, used “threats of violence, violence, and loss of employment or legal status” to keep foreign workers from blowing the whistle on a criminal enterprise in which he sold cattle belonging to other people for his own gain.