The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America's Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781529326871)

In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Fr d ric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very heart of a $12 billion thriller that illustrates 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, Fr d ric was arrested in New York by the FBI and prosecuted for a bribery case, despite not being involved at all. The US authorities locked him up for more than two years - including fourteen months in a very high security prison. In doing so, they forced Alstom to pay the biggest penalty ever imposed by the United States. In the end, Alstom also gave up areas of control to General Electric, its biggest American competitor.

Fr d ric's story unpacks how the United States is diverting the law and morality and 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 Treasury, in acts of sabotage that seem only to be the beginning of what's to come...

Author: Fr馘駻ic Pierucci
ISBN-10: 1529326877
ISBN-13: 9781529326871
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.86lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d