Media Matters has published an article about the raid, with a direct link to the federal affidavit. I'm putting it here with a warning: it discusses Fox News' coverage of events, but
we're not going to discuss Fox News. Period. What we do need to look at is the way Henry J. may have misrepresented what the raid was about. Each of you can draw your own conclusions about news coverage (by Fox and others) and whether or not they might have been misled by Gibson.
Gibson Raid storyThe real story is what the affidavit actually alleges: that sawn logs of Indian ebony (and later, Indian rosewood) were imported, but were represented to the Indian export authorities as finished guitar parts, represented to US Customs as veneer sheets with a false tariff code to match, and represented as being imported by Luthier's Mercantile (LMII) when in fact they were always headed for Gibson.
Read the affidavit (.pdf)
The story also discusses the raid from a couple of years ago.
Now these are allegations, not proven fact, and we don't know if the US government is properly interpreting Indian laws. But it looks to me like Gibson has severely misrepresented what the raid was about.