Gibson Guitars Gets Raided By The Feds
Posted on | November 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
Strange story from the Nashville Post…
Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local police today seized wood, guitars, computers and boxes of files from Gibson Guitar’s Massman Road manufacturing facility.
Sources say the Nashville-based guitar manufacturer is being investigated for violating the Lacey Act, a key piece of environmental law, for importing endangered species of rosewood from Madagascar…
…Sources tell NashvillePost.com Gibson was involved in a scheme that shipped the wood from Madagascar to Germany and then to the United States.
Not good for Gibson if the “sources” are on the money… an international rosewood smuggling ring.
Contraband?
Tags: Gibson > gibson guitar > Guitar > smuggling > u s fish and wildlife service
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November 17th, 2009 @ 8:15 pm
Seems there’s a law with no bail
Make a guitar and you go to jail
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November 18th, 2009 @ 5:31 am
breaks my heart…