diff --git a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/ConfigurableRewriteMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/ConfigurableRewriteMojo.java
index bf94a39e..cfd8222a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/ConfigurableRewriteMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/maven/ConfigurableRewriteMojo.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
@@ -95,6 +96,17 @@ public abstract class ConfigurableRewriteMojo extends AbstractMojo {
     @Parameter(property = "rewrite.checkstyleDetectionEnabled", alias = "checkstyleDetectionEnabled", defaultValue = "true")
     protected boolean checkstyleDetectionEnabled;
 
+    @Nullable
+    @Parameter(property = "rewrite.checkstyleProperties", alias = "checkstyleProperties")
+    private LinkedHashSet<String> checkstyleProperties;
+    /**
+     * @deprecated Use {@code rewrite.checkstyleProperties} instead.
+     */
+    @Nullable
+    @Parameter(property = "checkstyleProperties")
+    @Deprecated
+    private LinkedHashSet<String> deprecatedCheckstyleProperties;
+
     @Nullable
     @Parameter(property = "rewrite.exclusions")
     private LinkedHashSet<String> exclusions;
@@ -103,6 +115,10 @@ protected Set<String> getExclusions() {
         return getCleanedSet(exclusions);
     }
 
+    protected Set<String> getCheckstyleProperties() {
+        return getMergedAndCleaned(checkstyleProperties, deprecatedCheckstyleProperties);
+    }
+
     @Nullable
     @Parameter(property = "rewrite.plainTextMasks")
     private LinkedHashSet<String> plainTextMasks;
@@ -235,7 +251,16 @@ protected List<NamedStyles> loadStyles(MavenProject project, Environment env) {
         try {
             Plugin checkstylePlugin = project.getPlugin("org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin");
             if (checkstyleConfigFile != null && !checkstyleConfigFile.isEmpty()) {
-                styles.add(loadCheckstyleConfig(Paths.get(checkstyleConfigFile), emptyMap()));
+                // Convert the checkstyle config file contents to a String
+                String checkstyleConfig = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(checkstyleConfigFile)));
+                Set<String> checkstyleProperties = getCheckstyleProperties();
+                if (!checkstyleProperties.isEmpty()) {
+                    checkstyleConfig = checkstyleProperties.stream()
+                            .map(s -> "-P" + s)
+                            .collect(Collectors.joining("\n", "", "\n")) + checkstyleConfig;
+                }
+                styles.add(loadCheckstyleConfig(checkstyleConfig, emptyMap()));
+//                styles.add(loadCheckstyleConfig(Paths.get(checkstyleConfigFile), emptyMap()));
             } else if (checkstyleDetectionEnabled && checkstylePlugin != null) {
                 Object checkstyleConfRaw = checkstylePlugin.getConfiguration();
                 if (checkstyleConfRaw instanceof Xpp3Dom) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT.java b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..261b2c9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.openrewrite.maven;
+
+import com.soebes.itf.jupiter.extension.*;
+import com.soebes.itf.jupiter.maven.MavenExecutionResult;
+
+import static com.soebes.itf.extension.assertj.MavenITAssertions.assertThat;
+
+@MavenJupiterExtension
+@MavenOption(MavenCLIOptions.NO_TRANSFER_PROGRESS)
+@MavenOption(MavenCLIExtra.MUTE_PLUGIN_VALIDATION_WARNING)
+@MavenGoal("${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:run")
+class CheckstylePropertiesIT {
+    @MavenTest
+    void checkstyle_properties(MavenExecutionResult result) {
+        assertThat(result)
+                .isSuccessful();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2573be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC
+        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN"
+        "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
+<suppressions>
+    <suppress files="ImportOrderSample.java" checks="AvoidEscapedUnicodeCharacters"/>
+</suppressions>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle.xml b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e349fcd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+        "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.3//EN"
+        "http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/dtds/configuration_1_3.dtd">
+
+<module name="Checker">
+
+    <property name="localeLanguage" value="en"/>
+
+    <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter" />
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+        <!-- code cleanup -->
+        <module name="UnusedImports">
+            <property name="processJavadoc" value="true" />
+        </module>
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport" />
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="OneStatementPerLine"/>
+        <module name="UnnecessaryParentheses" />
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- style -->
+        <module name="DefaultComesLast"/>
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="ConstantName">
+            <property name="format" value="(^[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*(_[A-Z0-9]+)*$)"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="LocalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName"/>
+        <module name="MemberName"/>
+        <module name="ClassTypeParameterName">
+            <property name="format" value="^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="MethodTypeParameterName">
+            <property name="format" value="^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="InterfaceTypeParameterName">
+            <property name="format" value="^[A-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$$"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="ParameterName"/>
+        <module name="StaticVariableName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+
+        <!-- dependencies and import control -->
+        <module name="ImportControl">
+            <property name="file" value="${importControlFile}"/>
+            <!-- we do not want to validate test classes -->
+            <property name="path" value="^.*[\\/]src[\\/]main[\\/].*$"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <!-- whitespace -->
+        <module name="GenericWhitespace"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter" />
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround">
+            <property name="allowEmptyConstructors" value="true"/>
+            <property name="allowEmptyMethods" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="Indentation"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+
+        <!-- locale-sensitive methods should specify locale -->
+        <module name="Regexp">
+            <property name="format" value="\.to(Lower|Upper)Case\(\)"/>
+            <property name="illegalPattern" value="true"/>
+            <property name="ignoreComments" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <!-- code quality -->
+        <module name="MethodLength"/>
+        <module name="ParameterNumber">
+            <!-- default is 8 -->
+            <property name="max" value="13"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="ClassDataAbstractionCoupling">
+            <!-- default is 7 -->
+            <property name="max" value="20"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="BooleanExpressionComplexity">
+            <!-- default is 3 -->
+            <property name="max" value="5"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="ClassFanOutComplexity">
+            <!-- default is 20 -->
+            <property name="max" value="44"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="CyclomaticComplexity">
+            <!-- default is 10-->
+            <property name="max" value="19"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavaNCSS">
+            <!-- default is 50 -->
+            <property name="methodMaximum" value="100"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="NPathComplexity">
+            <!-- default is 200 -->
+            <property name="max" value="5832"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <module name="IllegalToken">
+            <property name="tokens" value="LITERAL_ASSERT"/>
+        </module>
+
+        <!-- Make the @SuppressWarnings annotations available to Checkstyle -->
+        <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder" />
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="SuppressionFilter">
+        <property name="file" value="${checkstyle.suppressions.file}"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Filter out Checkstyle warnings that have been suppressed with the @SuppressWarnings annotation -->
+    <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter" />
+</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/import-control.xml b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/import-control.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ea83633
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/.checkstyle/import-control.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<!DOCTYPE import-control PUBLIC
+        "-//Checkstyle//DTD ImportControl Configuration 1.4//EN"
+        "https://checkstyle.org/dtds/import_control_1_4.dtd">
+
+<import-control pkg="io.strimzi" strategyOnMismatch="allowed">
+    <allow pkg="java.util"/>
+    <allow pkg="java.net"/>
+</import-control>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/pom.xml b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..50593387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <groupId>org.openrewrite.maven</groupId>
+    <artifactId>checkstyle_properties</artifactId>
+    <version>1.0</version>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <name>CheckstylePropertiesTest#checkstyle_properties</name>
+
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>@project.groupId@</groupId>
+                <artifactId>@project.artifactId@</artifactId>
+                <version>@project.version@</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <activeRecipes>
+                        <recipe>org.openrewrite.staticanalysis.CodeCleanup</recipe>
+                    </activeRecipes>
+                    <checkstyleProperties>
+                        <property name="importControlFile" value="${project.basedir}/.checkstyle/import-control.xml"/>
+                    </checkstyleProperties>
+                </configuration>
+                <dependencies>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>org.openrewrite.recipe</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>rewrite-static-analysis</artifactId>
+                        <version>RELEASE</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                </dependencies>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.3.1</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <configLocation>.checkstyle/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+                    <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+                    <failsOnError>false</failsOnError>
+                    <propertyExpansion>importControlFile=${project.basedir}/.checkstyle/import-control.xml</propertyExpansion>
+                    <suppressionsLocation>.checkstyle/checkstyle-suppressions.xml</suppressionsLocation>
+                </configuration>
+                <dependencies>
+                    <dependency>
+                        <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
+                        <version>10.12.7</version>
+                    </dependency>
+                </dependencies>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/src/main/java/sample/ImportOrderSample.java b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/src/main/java/sample/ImportOrderSample.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99b666d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources-its/org/openrewrite/maven/CheckstylePropertiesIT/checkstyle_properties/src/main/java/sample/ImportOrderSample.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package sample;
+
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+
+public class ImportOrderSample {
+    public void useUtilPackage() {
+        ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
+        list.add("Hello");
+        list.add("World");
+        for (String s : list) {
+            System.out.println(s);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void useNetPackage() {
+        try {
+            URL url = new URL("https://github.com");
+            url.openConnection();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            System.out.println("Failed to connect to github.com! " + e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+}