two months later and after a fierce jewel the two men meet again same office different atmosphere. the ministers stand straight and tall but is stunned and defeated the last in the show of strength with the c.e.o. his defeat is also france's defeat. the c.e.o. is patrick cronin. the company sold to the u.s. without consulting the french data. in a deal that was sealed in circumstances where the of a spy novel from prying eyes and public opinion in. the sale deals a terrible blow to french industry and its energy independence today this affair of state is shrouded in a deafening silence. alstom

story begins in the city of belfort this is where the company was blown in eighteen seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially gold as a c.m. the alsatian corporation of mechanical engineering the company adopted the name in nine hundred twenty eight when it merged with the company francaise thomas hoost and ever since then has played a major part in many major french projects it designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest nine-a and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees then built the turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world of germany but for the people of belfort else dome is so much more to feel that. wonderful wolf will the void if will be too good to teach earlier. this year in the seed if you look into this one will nationals and to be privy to it's universal. well they call the

view. opposite if you do that you know and these are two hundred. in about a little is this a pharmacist. in june one thousand forty four france had been freed but almost destroyed by four years of war contributes to the political project of rebuilding and modernizing the country to put it teach us explain me don't do. that when she should. be pointed out you korea is not any good enough look if you don't it will if you want. to. get anything out loud then you started in august when you. said either she or mad at the thought out there be a lot of ideas begin to plan our. it pretty don't do men pearl said i'm more. use for proof as to say that i don't

merely. genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age from the one nine hundred sixty s. on words dog set on this from now on they live off. i may not be still in the sixth when there are. these new media but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . north of well she's accusing the swedish norse book evolve well jake sharp's on a beach in. this show and look past what he does if who doesn't promote. a little piece she'll do movie buzz one say l. stone bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the.

figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. historic speed record. eight hundred million views why then in two thousand and fourteen did everything suddenly change on the morning of the twenty fourth of april bloomberg revealed that in a surprise move was selling its energy which counted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. so. thank you. to. my. year yes. now the floor do not use the four says.

take the infamous you i don't get. i mean again. through all the understood for says our no more hand however been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall his reaction is a media and a particularly strong. in a quiver care to take orders from below he eats internet to mean that you own the best. to some to moan. and of unless you do it don't you know what a fifty years out they are but all crazy dog doo set out cookies did not offer all nationalities in most you buy t. call i don't usually at all she do most certainly in my cell use my my to do you have it all come out as good mean is totally going to me. as dolly i did think

don't do most old also be all crazy dog you got job you know policies really mouth do you know who other no war is declared between the two men and the first battle takes place in a public arena sure going to closure it new potato naked on june. fourth don't succeed to conciseness bustin except i also think if you look at the vatican as means alot of you do you mean all false so long you had the google search on deserve all doing well by do food on them is wise to eat the problem such as each suppose it should sit x e t in a she see to sure you know but i think he does she do it on i dont. got it all shows of course when i press you come one go. this and you may not gave. in this time instead of only you to put them on. the gift

mind that they meant the meat is no well known bookie mfighter she need professor to this ok i met. him i have feel they tend to poke at it and as you know person from all. contempt is a pathetic when i see skip i felt unable to sway public opinion patrick crown receives heavy support from his american partner general electric together they launch a media counter-offensive upon us what if we don't use that at all to do not obey is that they did. that's done badly call it causing a demagogue among book six they made it easy on the exception as well as be visionary i really think if they e-mailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying oh we're on the trolley out there on the yellow dog out say israel are always what you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building where she had been i was like you seriously don't they come to love point to point to this and he. says when he said are you that still me

get my place means that are you that stone he will meet you said and then you are no man to berg seems helpless against the general electric machine backed by major banks law firms and communications specialists the fight already seems to be lost on the poker. now that is unique as a dentist as soon as tim but in a dramatic twist the minister pulls a new weapon from his pocket and invites himself to the negotiating table you know now to take home one book on the. key. no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't through could use it because of it would let us to proceed you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on do not really clichy denies your knowledge if. this is all polish. old place only only could say we don't do that. says and we hope we don't and when will

not it. is too numb ditto as you've determined you to know it good person if you can are no one to book had achieved an incredible act of sheer force he had transformed the general electric alstom pairing into a tripartite partnership with the french state in the areas of renewable energy and nuclear power it appeared that french interest and sovereignty had been preserved so it was it that going to play morning was that they often than not discuss the music they play out on the menu all the. shows. look around them oh a clean way yonder a fail safe tell you all is where you and it hasn't been at all it's an equal cookies giveaway still false she saw ruefully there exists levees you don't see you go on the most difficult not not that i don't you care politician at the conclusion do not diplomacy now the next you'll move lobbies don't sit you know use their own tam's of people these any on june twenty first twenty fourteen the agreement is signed by general electric and the french state the sale has become an alliance at

this moment the battle file storm appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. were . the fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seen a familiar face. bend and by all still management ignored by patrick crone and forgotten by his country. fourteen months of wondering when it will end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight and. why is he. these men who question him so insistently. want to confessions about his company do they want from him.

in this economy who gets in that deep or is the winner because everyone's going to fall simultaneously in a way yeah the biggest that you're the winner that's a sound. absolutely right i guess to from twenty two to thirty to thirty five to forty trillion dollars in debt that's the best way to grow the economy without down . all the love lol it yet there is a saying. i think there won't be cheap bust and then we went through all the country stuff let's idea the right to scold us companies that he said to me give

them everything that's lifting to bust. this country. this is what we don't understand how we are poor in such contracts. the nurse until the ones at the same time. noticing non-governmental but. the soon to run up or lose similar similar to me. i do like it why do you need one but i get the because if you feel if the minutes of phone were not there god can we believe again the melody with the phone about the couple that with the plane. would come back to the place story you have to see. that i am the best the. june gloom. blue moon. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us to the with one trillion

dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent i just want to secure some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a our industrial park but don't let the numbers over the. the only number you need to remember it was one. or the middle one and only. twenty eight has a u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation and they suspect the

french company of using corrupt practices for more than ten years to will contracts in many countries initial suspicions concern bribes allegedly made to members of the indonesian government in return for the contract to build a power station refuses to cooperate with the u.s. department of justice but the investigation continues regardless and extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. even then. do not. let us finish off that. difficult if you. don't you know. what if eclipse. then i think.

you will go although already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution aside corporate leaders are convinced that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside u.s. territory. in a pot on. it's. use it as you need it to be able when you take it the a pleasurable u.s. law is the foreign corrupt practices act. you have sepia this allows the d.o.j. or department of justice to prosecute a foreign company for corrupt practices not on u.s. soil provided that the company has an identifiable connection to the united states to them overseas it. was it.

it was a welcome back to limo was it easy example system to communicate. no was it easy. example. do i step in with a muffled america if you. take it if you cannot look please keep boss. as it is unique. but only some can do american its links was. with tom's refusal to cooperate with the d.o.j. as prosecution intensified in april twenty first team while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe the minute. evaded you get on the increase don't do it security don't forget i think did. the

navy don't learn quickly. we. need to become almost. designed to take over you. it's not just for the recruits he who is under arrest three other former else tom employees some of whom have been retired for years before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against al stone becomes overwhelming. yeah. you. do. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the lugs derrius bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is the first encounter the first face to face

meeting between the two men chronos heads he wants to sell the company he hopes to free both and himself from the clutches of the american justice system therefore places a condition on the sale general a big drink will settle any fine for. the general electric c.e.o. accept and commits to the condition having killed two birds with one stone patrick the show. has been sold and its economic and legal difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer the payment of the five patrick crown this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america . get put in to.

the next. that's a giant leap to be a very. well so you could call it if you see deval in zero eight people forget it and they don't think once it just kind of a new if you heath ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up bodies are doing to me if only to. get off and see who else on today's date on this you know so happy army do not see the book. india's i want it more for peaceful to general security official motto please already problem another country under circuity zero it is you need a great guy to me and please always he said by the way and question because they were devoted to the place you'll. develop some of these it'll be differences

because it will be on more. exceptional play nate the absolutely most. people who own hundred they look at all the folks that they have it isn't only damon again. within days it is unique despite several alstom executives being arrested from twenty fourteen onward patrick cronin his team went to the united states several times never arrested nor concerned they could proceed with the sale to general electric and peace it's hard to imagine that at the same time very has been imprisoned for a year from executives are detained by the f.b.i. the moment they set foot on american soil so much so that dom's director of legal affairs urges company managers not to travel to the united states strangely patrick cronin remains welcome tonight to news is false and use a simple ordeal would look like to mom in france however patrick runs astonishing ability to enter and leave the united states on hindered is raising eyebrows he's

questioned by m.p. jack ma at the french national assembly. hall. yeah. because most fifty year. sure sutton on the cement be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like his junk sure. sure yes this is. the question thank you to the more they. do something more that afic works as well as a transceiver. spec but no proof i'm going to buy a community. you surely can't ship. and on the other commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. it it is so that it

on the over be accurate. enough you know money goes the place you're safe allowed dish out of the economy social issues and at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare bonaire merica a lot louder in a many other that if asked do. you need to malice city or county and it a compliment of your commissions that our economy only monday call on it is that. the commission is that i can to meet all of the loss of innocent internet to use up or develop possibly. miserably as is it as you need intellect. just couldn't feel it of course a guest of your fellow parliament us at the fair listen legal problem is going really loves that we are numb just a sock usually e.g. a p.c. . thank you.

and this isn't general electric's first attempt over ten years the american company has bought five companies that were being prosecuted by the department of justice for corruption the pattern is always the same an investigation is conducted and an acquisition unfolds under the threat of conviction and a severe fine which is avoided have been american british and french companies a twenty six million dollar fine was paid by the gray company in two thousand and seven after it was bought by general electric this was described as the biggest fine ever imposed under the foreign corrupt practices act eighty years later that record is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating a purchase by general electric for patrick cron admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition of

als dom is out of the question according to the c.e.o. the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't get. it does she explain more. don't please. hurry. if you. wish sure not all. may. emanuel mccrum. successor to on a month to bargain the role of minister of economy shares this opinion. page acts.

this group. says it can pull over so you do not have been state if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say could end up alcoholic suppose you don't have you can now freelance clayton's and which i cannot recall which went to my. sugars and get up at mc we tried to even knows what level it was at and that was until this woman never again we had let there be no is a demo. tapes the explicit talk and all that lesson yet you only need one he said he can you bet on the ninety click on these all knew that one day he did a cynical point all sales are going to be asked your boss danced on a screws that hold that he knew existed then they. really should hold on to it is it persones if i did a quark which was a. you know to please. a tweak citron surely sell your marshall she can

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