Gibson Plant Raided

[NWBasser]

Well, I'll put it this way: I wouldn't be that surprised if there was a government agency like that with absolutely no ability to do anything about the violations it found. Seems like that would actually be pretty low on the incredulity scale.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised either!

[stingx]

Juskiewicz had better watch out. Worse case could find him (or his execs) in jail where they'll find plenty of ebony wood.

[Tig***]

Juskiewicz had better watch out. Worse case could find him (or his execs) in jail where they'll find plenty of ebony wood.

Yikes!

[NWBasser]

Juskiewicz had better watch out. Worse case could find him (or his execs) in jail where they'll find plenty of ebony wood.

[Spudman***]

Juskiewicz had better watch out. Worse case could find him (or his execs) in jail where they'll find plenty of ebony wood.

I'll bet if that happened they'd be getting reamed one more time by authority.

[bcdon***]

Guitar Squid has a link to a CNN video regarding the raid, here.

Compare Henry's lead in guitar playing to the outtake of one of his worker bees.

[Eric***]

Compare Henry's lead in guitar playing to the outtake of one of his worker bees.

Yeah, that pretty much confirms the clip that Jimi75 posted a few weeks back of him trying to play lead and failing miserably. Juskiewicz is basically just a tool.

[Duffy]

I'm not sympathetic to Gibson's management decision and if they tried to fake papers or cover up their importation practice I'm not happy with that either. These resources in question are actually farmable, renewable, and sustainable if the right forest management is practiced. They are probably clear cutting or something even more disgusting, like "chaining".

People actually go to Federal Prison for violating these type of laws and Fish and Game has a lot of power, believe it or not, and even if they don't have enough mojo they will turn it over to the department of Justice that has all kinds of basically "free" lawyers that can make it Real expensive for Gibson to fight a case. They can drag it out for years, just like they are doing with the '09 incident, and cause Gibson to incur so much legal cost that it would make having a quick legal solution look super inexpensive. This is costing Gibson in legal fees, you can believe that, and the longer it drags out the more it will cost them. The Feds are obviously "on" them and probably are investigating a lot of other transactions as well. Something seemingly small could eventually turn out to be a very big deal, at least in terms of legal fees.

[stingx]

What they charge for a Les Paul Standard these days should be considered criminal alone...

[Neal]

I wish I would have seen this before I purchased my new neck for my Tele Project.

[RobertStyx]

Heard about this a while ago. Trying to pick up one of their guitars manufactured before all of this. Hopefully be worth a pretty penny in the future.