blackstone code

Chapter 1920

The room was so quiet that there was only the sound of a heavy breathing.

The 57-year-old, well-groomed Senator Lord hooked his tie with one hand and tugged it.

His breathing was somewhat restricted by the tie and tight neckline, and he felt a little out of breath.

The eyeballs were also covered with bloodshot unconsciously.

After working for most of my life, I finally stepped on the peak, but I haven't been cool for a long time, and I'm about to go down.

Who can stand it?
Leaving Congress not only means that his political status will decline, but also means that his income will be greatly discounted!

Capitalists are realistic.

They're not going to waste money on a guy who's far from the center of politics.

Soon, in the eyes of others, his proud investment ability will take a tumble, and his investment will no longer make that much money.

If he can find a state to accept him as the speaker of the state assembly, this matter will be a little better.

But once he has no place to go, he will soon become an ordinary person.

The society of the Federation is so realistic and direct.

When a person is valuable, everyone will surround him.

When a person's value goes to zero, people will leave him in an instant.

The senator pursed his lips, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, with a fierce expression on his face, "Because of that incident before?"

"I thought it was over!"

He guessed the truth of the matter, but so what?
Gladstone looked at him. "But the antitrust investigation isn't over yet!"

The senator was stunned again, and suddenly felt a little cold. He realized that the butcher knife held high by the presidential palace might really fall on the Jeredice Consortium.

Only this time, I don't know how much flesh and blood it will cut off.

Among these sacrificed flesh and blood, I am also one of them!

The presidential palace, the president, the consortium...

His face turned red in a very short time, and he could even see the bulging blood vessels and veins on his neck!

But soon, with another sigh, all the strength was spit out.

The appearance of a person changes, and the change is completed in a very short period of time.

A few minutes ago, he had been so decent, acting so...confident, with a hint of arrogance.

And at this moment, he is like those losers who are often seen on the streets of Bu Paine.

Decadence mixed with a touch of despair!
Once the results of the antitrust investigation come out, "big names" must be buried with them!
He is one of the victims!

There is no escape!

You can still struggle a little bit, now?

"Is there no other way?" He asked in frustration.

Gladstone was still the same as before, "This is your chance, once they make a move, you may not be able to get away."

"But now, you have a chance."

Gladstone didn't say any more after finishing his speech. He couldn't help others make choices about some things.

After seven or eight minutes, the congressman sighed heavily and said, "Please help me arrange it!"

In fact, not only the Progressive Party, but also the Conservative Party, Lynch also greeted Mr. Delphi as a referral, and talked about it with the Chairman of the Conservative Party Committee on the phone.

His attitude is very intuitive, he can do it, but behind it is the meaning of the presidential palace.

Whether those congressmen are willing or unwilling, they must come down in the end.

Rather than being "slapped" down without face, it is the choice of a smart person to trade political chips while he is not finished.

However, there were also two people who did not notify. Mr. Truman wanted to see the result of Lynch standing with him, not the scene of these people collectively taking the blame and resigning.

Among the two, one was very close to the Jerry Days consortium, and the other was the first congressman who strongly opposed the professor's entry into the state senate as the speaker.

The reason why these two people are retained is because they have collected sufficient evidence...

For several days, there seemed to be no disturbances, and even Lynch didn't talk about it again.

However, an investigator who was conducting an antitrust investigation at this time discovered the fact that Jerry Dyce's subsidiary was suspected of industry monopoly through an investigation that complied with the procedural procedures.

Previously, the federal government suggested that various industries in the federal government should set up industry self-discipline groups to conduct self-inspection and self-examination of some illegal or unreasonable phenomena in the industry.

This unofficial organization backed by the government has quickly taken root in various industries.

The names of these organizations are different, some are certain industry guilds, and some are established in the name of "committee".

A subsidiary of Jerry Dyess called on everyone to form the "Industry Self-Discipline Committee" and occupied an important decision-making position in the committee.

At the same time, they also put forward suggestions on price unification, and took the lead in implementing them in their own enterprises.

According to the definition in the "Anti-Monopoly Law", the behavior of controlling commodity prices and manipulating the market is also one of the monopolistic behaviors.

Due to pressure from large consortiums, the industry dared not object to their demands for price uniformity.

And this price is often accepted by many companies, after all, they will not do things that lose money.

This situation is difficult to define in the judiciary. This price was negotiated collectively, and it should be regarded as the price standard in the industry.

But on the other hand, if the specific price is set by a certain company or a business group, others do not have more bargaining power.

This kind of behavior is a typical manipulation of the market, and it is an absolute monopoly behavior.

The federal judiciary has many loopholes, just like those cheeses with countless holes, sometimes a hole can be drilled out with a little force without moving.

The investigation team directly collected these evidences as evidence of a specific monopoly industry, and began to enter the judicial process with this enterprise and its parent group company as the defendant.

The news that the subsidiary company had been seized immediately alarmed Frank and the top brass of the Jerry family.

The main members of the families and consortiums on both sides sat together, facing the butcher knife suddenly dropped by the federal president and the butcher knife that fell on them, they were indeed afraid.

Scared in the real sense.

The ghost knows how much this case will involve. If the group company is involved, fines and split, the brand of Jerry & Daisy will become a thing of the past!
And their wealth will shrink sharply!
At the same time, they were also confused. How dare the presidential office take action against them at this time?
The core business of Jerry & Deiss Group is energy, and it is the largest power supplier in the Federation.

Jerry & Dess owns the largest generator set and the largest power grid in the federal government. In response to the antitrust bill, they also split the power generation company and grid service company into multiple companies.

It seems that big companies have been split into small companies, but in essence there is no difference, everything is controlled in their hands.

At this time, they really want to ask Mr. Truman, if they do something to them, isn't the presidential palace afraid of accidents in domestic electricity consumption?
"What's next?"

A young man in the Jerry family couldn't help asking this question.

Everyone was silent and thinking, and the atmosphere was so depressing that people wanted to say something.

He was young, so he was the first to resist and asked the question.

Frank glanced up at him and continued to think about this series of questions and the trade-offs behind them.

Then some people spoke up, and then someone called Frank's name.

"Frank, tell me what you think."

Now the Dais family is headed by Frank. He is not the head of the house, but he already has the prestige of the head of the house.

He didn't say anything immediately, but sorted out his thoughts before speaking slowly.

"We continue to send people to negotiate with the presidential palace. This is simply a misjudgment. We have never had a monopoly!"

"Secondly, we need to contact other consortiums, and we can't keep giving in."

"What happened last time was our fault, and we have paid the price for it. It makes no sense to pay again."

"Finally, maybe we want to express our attitude."

Jerry's family sitting on the other side of the conference table asked with some uncertainty, "What do you mean?"

Frank's expression was not as calm as before, and he felt uneasy, "I heard that the generator set we introduced last time had quality problems, which caused a large-scale power outage."

"We need to arrange for people to overhaul in time and restore power to the states as soon as possible..."

Everyone present gasped.

Once the power supply is cut off, not only ordinary people will encounter troubles in their work and life, but the businesses of other consortiums will also encounter some troubles.

In this way, they will offend even more people!

"This is too wide a range of strikes, isn't it appropriate?"

Frank's attitude is very firm, "We have to make him realize that we are not a small thing that can be manipulated by him. He is dissatisfied with our behavior, which is fine."

"We can sit down and talk, what he wants to say to us directly, instead of coming here and there every now and then."

"As for the power consumption of the factory, don't worry. The accident happened this time is for domestic power consumption, and the industrial power grid is not affected."

After much deliberation, everyone also felt that it should be a little tougher.

Last time they showed that they were willing to apologize, but what they got in exchange was not the result they wanted.

Since soft ones are not good enough, come hard ones.

However, before this, they still greeted privately with industrial areas in several states, and if necessary, they can use backup generators to provide continuous power supply to ensure that production will not be suspended.

After the decision was made, everyone moved. Frank wanted to talk to Mr. Truman in person, but was refused.

This time, they can finally sit together and talk.

Very quickly, Jerry Days's subsidiary sent a letter of protest, saying that they did not recognize the so-called "evidence" obtained by the anti-monopoly investigation area.

The legal team also believes that this unified price is a voluntary normative behavior of the industry, rather than that the behavior of manipulating prices is not a monopoly.

And other evidence is not enough to provide more effective evidence of monopoly, so monopoly behavior should not be established...

(End of this chapter)