Gibson Guitar Corporation CEO Harry Juszkiewicz addresses reporters the day after federal agents raided the company's Tennessee facilities over allegedly illegally importing endangered wood used to make its world-renowned instruments

In the storied history of the modern communications art form known as the "press conference," few practitioners have failed as miserably as Gibson Guitar Corporation CEO Henry E. Juszkiewicz, whose sweat-drenched performance earlier today should earn him a Razzie for Worst Portrayal of a Confident Businessman.

Under a brutal afternoon sun, Juszkiewicz entertained a throng of reporters outside the renowned guitar-making company's Massman Drive factory, where less than 24 hours ago agents from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Immigration & Customs Enforcement confiscated a reported $1 million in guitars and guitar parts that were allegedly imported illegally from India, as well as computer hard drives from the company's Nashville headquarters.

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