story begins in the city of bell ford this is where the company was born in eighteen seventy two and since then it has literally shaped to the region initially called 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 who's done ever since then has played a major part in many major fridge projects designed the propulsion system for the normandy then the world's fastest liner and connected france to spain by building a train tunnel under the pyrenees and then built a turbo generators for the biggest power station in the world of germany but for the people of bell forty l. storm is so much more suited to deal a ticket cost. from the four walls or the vault usually two would preach earlier. this year he developed two days into the.

previous and. we. get to. do that you know and he's into hull and. in about a little while is this the pharmacy's is. in june nineteenth 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. it i've been she. pointed when you can yeah it's not any good enough if you don't it will if you want . to. get anything out loud. when you are so eager she omitted that he thought it would be allowed to stay in the plan not only pay. it pretty don't do. more.

this would prove as was. the genie. that genius brings the group international recognition and it will enjoy a golden age for the nine hundred sixty zone words. they live off yeah. i mean. i think for you now yes. but the nineteen nineties is when the fall begins a series of strategic errors led the group to bankruptcy in two thousand and three . and she's accusing me through the. book evolved. beach in. this show and look as if who.

was once a l. stone bounced back spectacularly in two thousand and seven the group recorded the best figures in its history boosted by the t.g.v. historic speed record worldwide by eight hundred million viewers 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 bridge which accounted for three quarters of the entire group to the american giant general electric and the economy minister at the time. is done. during the depression. taking a. gift to. my. year jazz sequestered. the volunteer basis of america now the floor do not use

the force as a stone put it washed they are too potty. generally take one for most you i don't get to leave it badly nationals and then again in the creeks and me out the dude are still at the clock here on the floor on the under street four says are no mountain berghain however been questioning patrick grown over his intentions for months with his back to the wall his reaction is a media and particularly strong among who also comport. in a quiver care to take orders from home he beats internet media join the b.s. yep is. it to some to moan and tomato on the vine 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 cover all nationalities in most you buy t.

call i don't really at all she do most certainly in ma i still use my my to do you have it all come out as good meanies totally going to me like dolly as dolly i did take the 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 pleasure it new potato in the naked on june. fourth don't succeed to come cyprus bustin except i also think if you look at the vatican as means a lot of the you mean all false so long you had the google search on to serve 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 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

as you this time instead of only you to put them on. the gift mind that they meant the me to suggestion don't go well no one bookie mfighter she need never professed out of this ok i met. my half ago 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 means of course not demagogue a long book six premeditatedly the exception as well as be visionary i really think if they emailed good sources and also all of us all caught on to my scrooge just all along saying we're on the trolley out on the idea of dog out say israel are always what you're going to face your heart's forsaken jerusalem building or 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 burke 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 programs that have. now this unit was 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. then to india no i said not a place probably as most petitions he has termed don't who could do city of it would let us suppose he but you know the policy and they have no trust on cuz folks on the not really clichy did nationale if. this is all polish. old place only

only cushite will say we don't do that. says in a comp we don't know when we will not have. them is to numb the two 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 a manual that. and you look at shows. on them oh a clean way yonder a fail safe tell you all is where you go and it hasn't been at all it's an equal cookies giveaway still false he saw there exists a levy 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 families 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 system appears to have been won however we have to go back a few years to understand the stakes. of the fourteen months fourteen months in a foreign prison fourteen months of never seeing 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 all end. how did one hundred ranking alstom executive lose everything overnight. why is he. these men who question him so

insistently. want to confessions about his company do they want from him. i've been thinking the numbers mean phone they've matter you have the with one trillion dollars of debt more than ten dollars fine happy day. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent and. some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need

remember one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. some want to be rich. that's why the press doesn't like them before three of them or ten people that i'm interested always in the lives of the house. first said. they all. said. so. yes this is how the.

cut. cut. cut. cut. cut. cut cut. cut cut. cut. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race in. the area of dramatic development only and. i don't see a. very critical time to sit down and talk

. in twenty years and u.s. department of justice launches an extensive investigation and they suspected 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 extends to other suspected cases in taiwan saudi arabia egypt and the bahamas systematic and deliberately corrupt practices are revealed across the globe. and then. do not go into.

more. difficult. but if you call. it it's. already condemned abroad it's surprising that alstom should simply brush the u.s. prosecution of. corporate leaders are convinced. that the u.s. department of justice has no jurisdiction over events that occurred outside the u.s. territory. you know i mean i can. tell you on one of these . dogs. you as it is you need to be able when you take 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 after the moves it it. was. lumo was it easy example system to communicate you. know was it easy. example. do i step in with a muffled america if you. take it it will please keep boss. as it is unique. in its leaks was equal with tom's refusal to cooperate with the d.o.j.

his prosecution intensified in april twenty fifth teen while traveling to the united states frederick a one time alstom executive was arrested. you won't believe. because you don't evade did you. do it security do you forgive i think did. we. need to. take over you. it's not just for the record ruchi who is under arrest three other former else dome employees some of whom have been retired for years brought before american courts they plead guilty to corruption judges and the case against al stone becomes overwhelming. solace a song. by the dam on perceived i'm yeah i'm. sixty two as.

you don't know this from all our. what if you did do long division ip. in paris on february the ninth twenty fourteen at the log sirius bristol hotel patrick crone meets the general electric see this is. the first encounter the first face to face meeting between the two men . he wants to sell the company he hopes to free. him from the clutches of the american justice system. places a condition on the general electric 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 . day. and its economic difficulties are evaporating into the american sky perhaps the department of justice will even defer

the payment of the five patrick this is the exact moment when irrevocably became america. that's a genetically to be a that. and also. so you're courting deval in only eight people to get it and they just don't think once it just given you a few teeth ask you know you know mom didn't have boarded up these are doing to me and it only to do if you get off and see who else on today's date on this you know

solo up the army do don't see the book is already doing these i want it more for peaceful to general security official motto please already problem another country under circuity zero it is you need to quit died to me and please always he said by the way and question because they were devoted to the place you. develop some of these are deleted says basically we all know more. exceptional play need to be absolutely. on hundred day 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 routine 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 else 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 look like tomorrow 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 saturn on the earth just cements be. a tank it surely sure sure sure sure like this joan sure. sure yes says. question thank you there's a full picture of the model. who sent you know that

a fake works as well as i can see bill. when it but no prove i'm going to switch by committee or said you surely can ship. and on here is known the other commodity today patrick runs a vase of makes more sense to. it it is so that it on the over be accurate. he left you no money goes the place you're safe as a dish out of the economy social issues up there and at this hour doc will see postulate a total manali medicare be near merica. loud many elderly and if asked do. you need to malice sit on your guy any day compliment of your commissions that i can to make it only monday come on it is that week.

it you know. or. was it as you need. just give us. just give you an. idea. 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 dollars 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. is beaten by these lawsuits have systematically put pressure on the companies concerned facilitating a purchase by general electric for patrick cronin admitting a connection between any corruption prosecution against him and the acquisition is out of the question according to the c.e.o. of the reasons were purely financial some experts and journalists even said the same thing at the time of the sale. if you don't. explain. don't. worry. this is a monkey this year if you do it. if you don't he takes the top should fall to those

on the bubble the i'm less sure looks like he does it all yet it is a major like you still wish sure not all places can lead to a point we should choose to shoot it is a quite a situation show me i can political discipline. because it is a multicultural emanuel mccrum the successor to on a monthly book in the role of minister of economy shares this opinion is it was a good act. mr cool this group. can pull over so you do cautious good i post gate if it's made to fit on this you call it. on the fee as you say. except possibly have you can a free os. and get up at mc we tried team knows what level to set and it was until this woman never again we had let there be no is a demo. tapes he explicit talk at all that lesson yet you only need one

he said he can do by pointing not to click on the news i want to see did a cynical point all sail salvina they are still posh danced on a scooter told him that he needs to then they. really should hold onto it is it persones if i did a quark which was se. to a please. id tweak citron surely sell yourself she can. get him to go tweak. the whole mimo you have to live off the money i did a bow as you feel would she. want to do easy prion disease. duvalle division that is still my no twenty joyride type of yemen play because i go above it all meant all composites. of wash day go to work on top ways. it has sort of bhakti he. can only talk of you know mon dieu. just reach will be no digital being there's so many to dos a lot of men can crawl to memory of all which will be tweaked it less read just

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him but sometimes it's better to try and shake up the established way of doing things in order to come to a different conclusion i think what's worrying is this focus on you know fate news and junk news because one of the foundations of a democracy has to be the trust in news facts and information and if that trust is fundamentally shaken and the independent media alll criticized then i think that that's a problem from a communications perspective. join me every thursday on the alec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. imagine. this if thirty five if you ever. career ended career involves

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