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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1267572" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Gibson Sticks Thumb in Obama Administration's Eye with 'Government Series' Guitars</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Gibson’s line of those guitars start $1,099 and are topped by a pickguard hot-stamped in gold with the “Government Series” graphic, which is a bald eagle hoisting a Gibson guitar neck.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>“Each Government Series II Les Paul also includes a genuine piece of Gibson USA history in its solid rosewood fingerboard, which is made from wood returned to Gibson by the US government after the resolution,” the website states .</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>In 2011, the Department of Justice raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Memphis and Nashville, alleging a violation of the so-called Lacey Act, a law that bans the importation of certain kinds of wildlife, plants and wood.</strong></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>At the time of the raid, Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/gibson-guitar-ceo-fed-raid-to-cost-company-2-to-3-million/" target="_blank">told</a> Hugh Hewitt on his radio show that the feds confiscated tonewood imported from India for the guitar Gibson manufacturers which would result in a cost of $2 to $3 million for his company.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>At a great expense in legal fees and time, Juszkiewicz <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/13/gibson-guitar-ceo-warns-that-jobs-may-be-sent-overseas-in-aftermath-of-doj-raid/" target="_blank">fought the federal government</a> tooth and nail. But in August 2012, he settled with the Department of Justice by agreeing to pay a penalty of $300,000 and a $50,000 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/01/31/Gibson-Sticks-Thumb-in-Obama-Administrations-Eye-with-Government-Series-Guitars" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/01/31/Gibson-Sticks-Thumb-in-Obama-Administrations-Eye-with-Government-Series-Guitars</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1267572, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Gibson Sticks Thumb in Obama Administration's Eye with 'Government Series' Guitars[/B] [B]Gibson’s line of those guitars start $1,099 and are topped by a pickguard hot-stamped in gold with the “Government Series” graphic, which is a bald eagle hoisting a Gibson guitar neck. “Each Government Series II Les Paul also includes a genuine piece of Gibson USA history in its solid rosewood fingerboard, which is made from wood returned to Gibson by the US government after the resolution,” the website states .[/B] [B][/B] [B][SIZE=5][B]In 2011, the Department of Justice raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Memphis and Nashville, alleging a violation of the so-called Lacey Act, a law that bans the importation of certain kinds of wildlife, plants and wood.[/B][/SIZE] At the time of the raid, Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz [URL='http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/gibson-guitar-ceo-fed-raid-to-cost-company-2-to-3-million/']told[/URL] Hugh Hewitt on his radio show that the feds confiscated tonewood imported from India for the guitar Gibson manufacturers which would result in a cost of $2 to $3 million for his company. At a great expense in legal fees and time, Juszkiewicz [URL='http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/13/gibson-guitar-ceo-warns-that-jobs-may-be-sent-overseas-in-aftermath-of-doj-raid/']fought the federal government[/URL] tooth and nail. But in August 2012, he settled with the Department of Justice by agreeing to pay a penalty of $300,000 and a $50,000 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. [url]http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/01/31/Gibson-Sticks-Thumb-in-Obama-Administrations-Eye-with-Government-Series-Guitars[/url] [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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