Gene Nix of Gibson was on the ground in Madagascar and emailed back that there was no legal source of Madagascar ebony. Gibson chose to buy its Ebony from Roger Thunam, a convicted lumber trafficker. Nix knew that Thunam's ebony was under seizure by the Malagasy government.
Gibson's hands weren't clean in that transaction.
8 posted on 11/26/2013 7:35:07 AM PST by Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
Nobody has clean hands. Everything is against the law (alles ist verboten). We’re all only a bureaucrat’s whim away from being arrested by armed federal agents.
10 posted on 11/26/2013 8:08:55 AM PST by Prolixus
(We feed; they breed.)