Gibson's Nashville Factory Gets Raided By Feds

I read about this over at Premier Guitar,Gibson's Nashville factory was recently raided by the Fed's...
Nashville, TN (November 17, 2009) – Agents with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and Nashville police conducted a raid at Gibson's corporate headquarters and one of its Nashville manufacturing facilities this afternoon. Various news agencies report a number of guitars, computers, files and wood used in the manufacture of the company’s guitars were seized.
This is centered around the law,The Lacey Act,which is described by a comment on the article....
The Lacey act isn't really about protecting trees or wildlife or anything like that, though that may have been the original intent. Getting a species listed has really nothing to do with it being endangered, but nore to do with how much the proponents scream and yell and which congressmen you can get in your pocket. So, what the lacey act is really about is the papertrail. If Gibson has a papertrail back to when the tree was originally cut then their fine. If there is a break in the trail (like if the tree were illegally sold to some middleman along the way) then their screwed. And of course, the papertrail is all about government fees and taxes they impose paid for their stamp of approval on the shipping form....
http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/Daily/News/Gibson_Facilities_Raided_by_Law_Enforcement_Officials.aspx