In the original complaint they were going after Gibson for Indian wood taken against Indian law. Except that the Indian government was OK with the procedures in place and had no complaint.
It sounds like Madagascar similarly had no complaint with Gibson. Which means they are accused of non-crimes and the price of not being bankrupted is to offer a soviet-style confession to this non-crime.
No.
There were two raids on Gibson.
The first raids were in November 2009 and involved Madagascar ebony. The second raids, involving East Indian rosewood and ebony, were in August 2011.
There were separate civil forfeiture actions for each set of raids.
Only the August 2011 raids got a lot of media attention. Gibson didn't roll out its public relations machine with respect to the first raids because the facts were much too unfavorable for Gibson, including internal Gibson emails acknowledging that it couldn't legally buy the Madagascar ebony before Gibson followed through on the purchase.