GOP Inviting as Guest to Obama Speech the CEO of Company Raided by Feds

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ABC News:

In addition to those Republican lawmakers who have announced – motivated, it seems, by disrespect — that they will decline to attend President Obama’s Thursday night jobs address to a joint session of Congress, Republicans are also taking the additional step of inviting a man whose company the Obama administration is investigating for possibly breaking the law.

Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson Guitar Corp., will either sit in the House Gallery as the guest of his member of Congress, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. (members of Congress each get to invite one guest to sit in that balcony), or he will be invited to sit in the speaker of the House’s box for the speech, Republican officials tell ABC News.

As of Wednesday afternoon, officials in House Speaker John Boehner’s office were trying to decide where he should sit.

Last month, the Nashville company was raided by federal officials for importing ebony from India that the Justice Department says was “fraudulently” labeled to evade Indian export laws. The Justice Department says the mislabeling constituted a violation of a 2008 law requiring companies to detail information about wood they import, and to abide by the relevant laws of foreign nations.

No charges have been filed in this recent case, but the federal government first raided Gibson in November 2009 because of an earlier shipment of ebony from Madagascar that was also alleged to have been exported illegally from that country.
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