Q: What is the easiest and most effective way for Amerika Capital to kill a non-Amerika 500 company?

Answer: With the state apparatus, crush it.

When Roland discovers that he seems to be able to use "Black Hawk Down" to forcibly dismember Sony, a memory of his past life slowly comes out.

He remembered a book he had read that year, a book on how America dismantled other countries' business giants through non-economic means, and the title of the book was "The American Trap."

Alstom is a global leader in the field of rail transit, power equipment and power transmission infrastructure, known for its innovative and environmentally friendly technologies, and of course, its status as a giant is also through mergers and acquisitions.

After acquiring the transmission and distribution business of AEG in 98, Alstom ranked second in the global transmission and distribution industry. Subsequently, it merged with Xijilaike Company, a leader in electrical engineering contracting and industrial control systems, and its strength increased greatly; At that time, it had an annual turnover of more than 16 billion US dollars, 110,000 employees, and business in more than 60 countries and regions.

At that time, the most popular phrase in the world was:

'One out of every four light bulbs in the world is powered by Alstom's technology. ’

Even in that unspeakable country in the East, many energy and power transmission equipment are Alstom's products.

This also includes some industrial equipment in the Three Gorges Dam.

However, being big means being targeted.

Due to Alstom's frenzied global expansion, which has already threatened General Electric, America's investigation of Alstom has been conducted since the beginning of the decade, with the aim of finding out how Alstom used an 'unfair' way to obtain billions of dollars in business orders outside of America.

That's right, Amerika didn't ask 'yes' at all, but 'why'.

If this practice had been put in beep, it might have been withdrawn from the net a long time ago.

The Americans have always been 'suspicious' that Alstom has provided at least $75 million in 'benefit fees' in countries and regions such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, and has won contracts worth a total of $4 billion.

Part of the 'benefit fee' was used in the bank account of the American, and in the name of the 'consulting fee', the account of the Indonesian official was transferred, so that the FBI went all the way to France.

As for why it can be checked?

That's because America has always had a long-arm jurisdiction.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as amended in 1998, provides that 'the Government of America considers a company to have jurisdiction over a company anywhere in the world, at any time, if it has transacted in U.S. dollars, entered into contracts denominated in U.S. dollars, or simply sent or received mail through an e-mail server located in America.' ’

It was because of this law that Alstom was the target of the investigation, but after two years of investigation, there was no result, so they took the initiative and arrested Frederick Pieruzzi, Alstom's vice president of international sales at New York's JFK International Airport, in 2013.

However, they were not immediately interrogated.

Instead, he was held in a high-security prison in Rhode Island for violent criminals.

After three months in prison, Frederick Pieruzzi, who knew nothing, was told by prosecutors to attend a plea hearing, and before the plea hearing, the U.S. prosecutor told him two options:

The first option is to insist on pleading not guilty and submit to justice.

The path is dangerous because the prosecutor in the case is fighting for the court to sentence him to 15 to 19 years in prison. Moreover, he was told that the preparation for the trial would take at least three years and that the costs would be at least in the millions of dollars.

The other option is to admit guilt, cooperate with the authorities, and just stay a few more months before you can get out.

As a senior executive of a Fortune 500 multinational company, he was imprisoned on death row for three months, and he only knew his crime from beginning to end, and did not see any actual evidence.

The point is that in the absence of evidence, but the cooperation has to stay for 21 years, and the cooperation only needs to stay for a few months, and everyone knows how to choose!

So, he confessed the list of people the FBI wanted to know.

With his 'confession', several more people were added to the arrest list, and three of Frederick Pieruzzi's former colleagues, Lawrence Hawkins, vice president of Asia, were all arrested by the FBI.

After they were caught, the FBI repeated the same trick, and those guys also 'turned back' one after another, in this case, the prosecutor in Amerika obtained 49 hours of 'secret conversations' inside Alstom.

After possessing strong 'evidence', after many negotiations, Alstom finally reached a plea agreement with the American Department of Justice on December 22, 14, admitting that he had committed bribery and was fined $77.2 billion.

However, Alstom was unable to pay the fine at all.

As a result of the successive arrests of senior executives, Alstom's operating income in the power business in the 14th to 15th fiscal year was 133.3 billion euros, the net profit was only 104 million euros, and the operating income of the transportation business was 6139 euros, with a net loss of 823 million yuan.

And the only one who buys assets is General Electric.

Why?

Because Alstom could only sell the assets to General Electric.

Shortly after Frederick Pieruzzi's guilty plea, GE made a takeover offer, and after the possibility of a deal arose, the American Department of Justice took the initiative to release news that the legal pressure on Alstom seemed to abate.

Seeing hope, Alstom did not immediately push forward with negotiations, so Alstom's executives were immediately arrested.

On the day he was arrested, Alstom, who knew that the matter was irreparable, took the initiative to find General Electric to make a deal, and after that, with the release of the news, Alstom's people were never arrested by the American authorities again.

On the same day that the deal was officially signed, the bail applications of those executives were also approved by the America authorities.

Not only that, in order to ensure that GE can eat Alstom, the Ministry of Justice of America also stipulates that the fine of 772 million yuan must be paid by Alstom's unacquired French assets, and after the penalty is issued, it must be paid within 10 days, which is a huge hole for other companies such as Sanleng who want to acquire Alstom.

But after GE and Alstom formally signed the acquisition agreement, GE, which promised to help pay the fine, was tolerated by the American Department of Justice, and the fine that should have been paid in December 14 was not paid until September 15.

And that day happened to be the day when the EU antitrust authorities officially approved the acquisition.

If the EU doesn't approve it, the America Ministry of Justice won't get the money, and if the America Justice Department can't get the money, the EU will have to approve it.

In 10 years, Alstom was still a member of the world's top 500, in the 290th, in 12, 404, in 15, 482nd, after that, it was gone......

In a fifteen-year question, the French economy minister said when questioned by the French parliament, 'I sincerely believe that the American Ministry of Justice has put pressure on Alstom's top management, which led to the sale of the company's assets to General Electric, but we have no evidence.' ’

It was Emmanuel Macron who was speaking on stage.

What is the fastest way for a company to expand?

It's an acquisition.

What if the acquisition fails?

Point a gun at the other person and make him make the 'SellorDie' choice.

Whoever is the commander of America, whether he is an elephant or a donkey, Washington will defend the interests of a handful of industrial giants – Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, General Electric, Berchd Engineering, United Technologies, and so on.

If you want to fight against this kind of crushing from the national level, you can only hope that the state apparatus behind it can help you grind it back, but unfortunately, France can't help Alstom, and Japan can't help Sony.

Join forces with Apple, Microsoft, and DreamWorks to knock out the cash flow of Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Potential buyers, too, are obvious.

It is true that Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Entertainment are not at all comparable to the military giants, and Roland cannot use the state apparatus in a more crude and simple way like them.

But it doesn't matter, after "Black Hawk Down", the matter of deducting the crime has become extremely simple.

When the opportunity arises, the hand that pushes the state apparatus will naturally appear.

It doesn't matter if Roland doesn't have the ability, because this kind of thing can let capable allies take the lead in doing it......

Microsoft is obviously the capable guy, and at the same time, Sony's semiconductors will also be tempted.

Roland is not greedy, he only wants Sony Pictures Entertainment that the giants don't look down on.

Ah no, it's to help Steven Spielberg, the Jewish stalwort, win Sony Pictures Entertainment.

As for himself?

He doesn't know anything!

He just helped the right friend at the right time, discovered the right project, let the right person invest, and released it at the right time, so as to realize the appreciation of everyone's right assets......

He's ......

It's just a weak, pitiful, helpless, and very edible little meow!

“Pia！”

The crunch echoed throughout the room.

"Don't eat it~"

The voice suddenly rose.

Kate held her cheek with one hand, looked at the messy dining table in front of her, and the paws that wanted to have another one, her face was full of disgust, "You are an actor who eats so much, aren't you afraid of gaining weight?" ”

"Or is the secret of how much you eat and not get fat because you vent calories on me?"

Although he was hit on the arm, Roland was not angry.

smiled at each other, pretending not to understand, but then his hand speed increased sharply, and he stuffed the last croissant on the table into his mouth with the speed of the ringing of the bell.

Due to the invasion of bread, his cheeks suddenly swelled, but he did not gobble it up, but while chewing at a uniform speed, he picked up the milk and drank it slowly, with his eyes squinted, it was really an underbeaten look.

"You ......"

The act of committing a crime against the wind won the glare of death.

Seeing that Kate was really angry, Roland swallowed the bread and said weakly with a smile -

"Don't be angry...... I ate two more ......."

Roland, who doesn't believe in love, believes in tangible benefits the most, and when last night, after getting tangible inspiration from Kate, Roland, who was in extreme excitement, had a great time.

In other words, the idea of "Black Hawk Down" made Roland find double happiness in Kate.

As Kissinger said, 'Poweristheultimateaphrodisiac'.

Roland, who was happy physically and mentally, was very happy.

Kate, on the other hand, suffered.

Last night's Roland, incarnated as the Minotaur Chieftain, first opened his endurance aura, added an attack rate to himself, and after Ping A dropped Kate's half-tube blood, the shockwave was used, accompanied by war trampling, and brutally harvested it.

But after a set of combos, he found that Kate chose a sword master, and all the skills hit the opponent's illusion, so Roland, who was angry, fought with him for several rounds.

The two sides are not fierce, Roland opened the endurance aura, Kate triggered a fatal blow, Roland threw out a shock wave, Kate had already jumped and slashed back, and in the end, seeing that she was about to lose, Kate decisively threw out the blade storm, wanting to die with Roland, but the problem is that after Roland fell to the ground, he triggered rebirth and resurrected with full blood......

Because of this, after waking up this morning, Kate, who was tired and lazily just wanted to sleep, didn't give Roland any good look.

And now, after being 'provoked' by Roland in front of her, she snorted even more lightly, not bothering to pay attention to him.

rolled up, leaned on the sofa in the living room, picked up the remote control, turned on the TV, and the look of 'the old lady is in a bad mood, don't come to provoke the old lady', but it was vividly presented in front of Roland.

It's a pity that maybe Kate is unlucky, or maybe Roland is lucky, as soon as the TV is turned on, the CNN logo appears on the screen, not only that, but a 'bad' news has also reached the ears of the two.

"Yesterday, there was significant progress in the Paula Jones Sexualharassmentcase, when Monica Lewinsky, a witness in the case and a former White House intern, was accused of having an affair with Grand Commander Zipperton."

"According to sources, Monica Lewinsky's previous written testimony that 'she did not communicate with the Grand President' may be false, and her close friend Linda Tripp said that the reason why Monica Lewinsky would deny her relationship with Grand President Zipper was all hinted at by Grand Commander Zipperton, and she herself has audio evidence."

"Upon learning of this, Attorney General Janet Reynaud decided to authorize Kenneth Star, the independent prosecutor and then special prosecutor for the Whitewater case, to investigate the relationship between Ms. Monica Lewinsky and Grand Commander Zipperton."

As soon as this news came out, Kate, who was lying on the sofa and wanted to watch TV, turned dark.

Roland, who was looking at her, also moved his gaze to the TV.

Since the beginning of January, "Titanic" has set a record of over 100 million daily box office, and the zipper door of Zipper has also kicked off.

Unlike the fairy love that everyone envies, Zipper is now controversial.

Although Zipper was already famous when he was governor of Arkansas, and his playboy reputation became the target of opponents when he first ran for election, he is now, after all, the commander of America.

Causing a peach scandal, in order to keep his mouth shut, transferring him to the Ministry of Defense is already an extremely dereliction of duty, and making a false confession to obstruct judicial fairness is even more of a moral issue to the bottom line of the law.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Roland.

For others, it's a big melon, but for him, it's a thing.

After two glances, he shifted his gaze back to Kate.

But Kate doesn't think so.

The sudden peachy incident made her purse her lips, and after the news jumped, she turned her head to look, and when she found that Roland was looking at her, her complicated expression poured out without reservation.

It has been two years since the beginning of the relationship.

In the past two years, the two of them have done everything they should do and what they shouldn't do, not only that, but both parties have also met with parents, and even the work of taking care of children that only a family can do, Kate will help with it.

Although Kate didn't calculate, she knew in her heart that Roland had spent a lot of money on herself.

Daily expenses, Roland's gifts, Roland bought, and after she spent the salary she earned over the years, what she is holding now in her hand is also Roland's deputy card, and next, Roland will also buy land and build a house, and she will also participate in design.

But even so, Roland had no intention of giving a diamond ring.

Although she knew that the diamond ring was an IQ tax, the problem was, it was also a symbol!

No matter how good Roland is to her, she will be uneasy without an oath symbol, especially after she has decided to give up the profession of actor, this uneasiness has increased geometrically......

Now, the whole world knows that I live in your house, but my hands are still bare?

This......

Isn't this a joke for people to see!

Isn't this an opportunity for others to take advantage of!

If before, Kate herself was avoiding this question, she didn't want to put pressure on Roland, but now, after watching Zipperton's peachy news and finding that Roland was still staring at herself and laughing heartlessly, the pressure in her heart has increased exponentially.

She did think that Roland didn't want to give her a ring because he felt that he might propose to break up at any time, but!

If Roland is really ready to break up with her all the time, then there is no need to take her home!

This extremely contradictory behavior made her unable to guess Roland's thoughts.

If she can't guess, she'll be annoyed.

It's a pity that after staring at it for a long time, she still didn't speak.

But while she retracted her gaze, she silently asked in her heart-

'Is it hard to give a ring?' ’

If Roland knew what she thought, he would be deeply apologetic.

It's not hard to give a ring.

The hard part is to give away the ring at the right time.