Gibson Raided by Federal Agents for Illegal Rosewood!!
November 19, 2009 | Posted by Billy Penn 
According to the Nasville Post the Gibson Guitars production facility on Massman Road in Nashville, TN was raided by federal agents on Tuesday November, 17. The facility was raided and is under investigation for violating the Lacey Act which is an environmental law to protect against importing endangered species of rosewood from Madagascar.
Gibson has issued a statement saying that they are fully cooperating with federal agents in the investigation of the harvested wood. Gibson purchases wood from legal suppliers who are supposed to follow legal standards. Henry Juszkiewicz, Gibson Guitar Chairman and CEO sits on the board of the Rainforest Alliance and takes the issue of certification very seriously. Gibson Guitars will continue to cooperate fully and assist federal agents with the investigation.
Click here to read the full story in the Nashville Post.
Tags: FBI, Gibson, Guitars, Madagascar, Rosewood | 
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To read the Rainforest Alliance’s official statement on this matter, please visit our website: http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/gibsonstatement
Hi there Abby- Thank you for visiting 300guitars! The Rainforest Alliance’s statement is very interesting. Please keep me updated so I can inform my readers on what’s going on. Thank you! -Billy
Do you have any updates on the Gibson Investigation or contacts for the investigators?
They WILL lie to federal authorities. I have proof the two owners of Gibson Guitar, Henry Juszkiewicz and David Berryman Suborned Perjury and paid their former General Counsel, Barbara O’Connell, to lie in a lawsuit I have against them.
Here’s a News Tip, the former Senior Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Gibson Guitar, Barbara O’Connell was NOT a Tennessee Attorney, was NOT authorized by the Tennessee Supreme Court Board of Law Examiners to practice law as a General Counsel pursuant to Comfy, as required by Tennessee Law, and at all times in her employment with Gibson was engaged in the Unauthorized practice of law.
Barbara O’Connell is now in Georgia with the Southwire Corporation.
I am in the process of getting Federal Charges against them for Mail Fraud and the Subornation of Aggravated Perjury. Check out my website in about a week when it will be completed. Substantial evidence will be posted their including a Petition for a Federal Investigation of Gibson for Mail Fraud. There will also be a contest and FREE advertising materials. http://www.LyingScumbags.Com .
I gave Tennessee Prosecutors substantial evidence of Aggravated Perjury by Barbara O’Connell, and the Subornation of Aggravated Perjury by the CEO of Gibson Guitar, Henry Juszkiewicz and Gibson President, David Berryman Either Tennessee will prosecute and not let them get away with these felonies because they are rich, and very well “connected” in Nashville, or I will file a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against the prosecutor, and get an Injunction, or Mandamus, to require “Equal Protection of the Law”, as a victim.
Thanks and I greatly appreciate any information you might have,
Billy Ray Kidwell
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Hi Billy Ray- I do not have any further info to contribute. I only know what I posted. Lots of weird stuff with this issue for sure… -Billy