I wasn't aware that breaking wood import laws is - like chewing gum during the national anthem, showering naked without bathroom security locks activated when minors are around and NOT having raped the chamber maid - yet another crime that sees you on death row in the Land of the Free!!! Henry J. doing the prep walk - what instant gratification here for some people that the hardware he will be wearing then might be chrome!!!
Stepping down from the board if it proves that he was actively involved in this or adamantly looking the other way? Yes. Pummeling fines? Yes. What has happened here is really not that different to breaking the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (I'm sure that along the way Gibson will argue that it only did business "in Rome" and therefore "did like the Romans")? Yes. But beyond that? Well, it's your country, do what you want then. You could always ask Ted McCarthy to descend from above (I assume that his retirement is now of more permanent and less worldly nature) and take over the reins again ... Having invented the Flying V, the Futura/Explorer, the Moderne and hired Raymond Dietrich for the design of the Fire- and Thunderbirds aren't the guitar world's worst track record, you know ...