Pierre Botton

See also: Botton

Pierre Botton , born on May 30th, 1955 with Lyon (the Rhone), is a known French business man for his legal contentions.

At the end of its studies, it takes again the family company, specialized in the fitting of pharmacies. In 1982, it meets for the first time Michel Noir, appointed of Lyon and rising star of the RPR. It setting all on this one, persuaded that it with the fabric of a politician of foreground.

Megalomaniac and very generous with his friends, it is interested of close with the high-speed motorboats of the show business, binds with Coluche, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Patrick Poivre d' Arvor. He creates for itself a whole network which he as much as possible places at the disposal of Michel Noir in order to it médiatiser.

In March 1986, when this last becomes Minister for the Foreign trade in the government of Jacques Chirac, he is its personal adviser and marries his oldest daughter, Anne-Valerie. It benefits from this period in the middle being able it to make bear fruit its business and develop its network of contacts.

In 1988, he put on the municipal elections envisaged the following year to make elect his/her father-in-law Mayor of Lyon, becomes its campaign director and sees his crowned efforts of success.

But hardly Michel Noir elected, it wants to benefit from this position to intervene on the financial markets of the city. Then begin an arm wrestling between the son-in-law and his father-in-law, which starts to find it cumbersome, under the vigilant eye of a judge, Philippe Courroye, which will dismount the “Botton system” by tracking its actions.

In a string rises from lawsuits, which send it in prison during nearly two years, and feed the media during the every years 1990.

The January 10th 1996 in call, the judgments of the politicians Michel Noir and Michel Mouillot, found guilty of concealment of abuse of corporate asset, are worsened: both are condemned to eighteen months of suspended sentence (fifteen in April 1995), and to the deprivation during five years of their civic rights and civil, therefore with ineligibility. They are condemned each one to 200.000 francs of fine.

Patrick Poivre d' Arvor is condemned, also for concealment of abuse of corporate asset, in fifteen months of suspended sentence and 200.000 francs of fine, as in first authority. The court noted that he was not “the only known journalist to have benefitted without state from heart from generosities from Pierre Botton”.

Pierre Botton tells his history in several books, Prison , My dear friends , There are always accomplices , I like the life .

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