02705cam a2200385Mi 4500 on1136959696 OCoLC ta 210122r20202019enka 000 0 eng d 9781529326871 (pbk.) 1529326877 9781529326864 (hbk.) 1529326869 UKMGB 019757867 (OCoLC)1136959696 HF1456.5.F8 P54 2020 Pierucci, Frederic. The American Trap : my battle to expose America's secret economic war against the rest of the world / Frederic Pierucci ; with Matthieu Aron ; translated from the French by Deniz Gulan. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020. xiii, 321 p. Translation of: Le piege américain : l'otage de la plus grande entreprise de destabilisation economique raconte. Reprint. Originally published: 2019. In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very core of how he plotted the key features of the secret economic war that the United States is waging in Europe. And after being silenced for a long time, he has decided, with the help of journalist Matthieu Aron, to reveal all. In April 2013, Frédéric Pierucci was arrested in New York by the FBI and accused of bribery. The US authorities imprisoned him for more than two years - including fourteen months in a notorious maximum-security prison. In doing so, they forced Alstom to pay the biggest financial penalty ever imposed by the United States. In the end, Alstom also gave up areas of control to General Electric, its biggest American competitor. Frédéric's story unpacks how the United States is using corporate law as an economic weapon against its own allies. One after the other, some of the world's largest companies are being actively destabilised to the benefit of the US, in acts of economic sabotage that seem to be the beginning of what's to come... ALSTOM (Firm) General Electric Company. Competition, Unfair United States. Executives France Biography. Nuclear power plants France. United States Foreign economic relations France. France Foreign economic relations United States. Aron, Matthieu. Gulan, Deniz Le piege américain : l'otage de la plus grande entreprise de destabilisation economique raconte. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HF1456.5.F8 P54 2020 PNLIB21060119 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 305 305