{"id":11770,"date":"2014-05-29T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11770"},"modified":"2014-05-29T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T02:01:21","slug":"forbes-lumber-union-protectionists-incited-swat-raid-on-my-factory-says-gibson-guitar-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11770","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Lumber Union Protectionists Incited SWAT Raid On My Factory, Says Gibson Guitar CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billfrezza\/2014\/05\/26\/lumber-union-protectionists-incite\">Lumber Union Protectionists Incited SWAT Raid On My Factory, Says Gibson Guitar CEO<\/a> by Bill Freeza:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Up until that point Gibson had not received so much as a postcard telling the company it might be doing something wrong. Thus began a five-year saga, extensively covered by the press, with reputation-destroying leaks and shady allegations that Gibson was illegally importing wood from endangered tree species. In the end, formal charges were never filed, but the disruption to Gibson&#8217;s business and the mounting legal fees and threat of imprisonment induced Juszkiewicz to settle for $250,000-with an additional $50,000 &#8216;donation&#8217; piled on to pay off an environmental activist group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: Lumber Union Protectionists Incited SWAT Raid On My Factory, Says Gibson Guitar CEO by Bill Freeza: Up until that point Gibson had not received so much as a postcard telling the company it might be doing something wrong. Thus &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=11770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11770\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}