Noir Michel

French executive, commercial director for a branch of the Péchiney group; Marketing and human relations Consultant, 1972-78; National Secretary of RPR party, 1979-89, Deputy of the Rhone and Minister of External Commerce. The son of a jeweler, he was formerly sales director and a marketing and Human Relations Consultant. In 1989 he was elected Mayor of Lyon. Noir married 8/29/1964. His daughter Anne-Valerie married entrepreneur Pierre Botton in 1987. When Botton went bankrupt of 33 million FF, he testified that he acted in full agreement with Noir, his father-in-law. Following an investigation on the activities of Botton, Noir was found guilty of corruption in March 1995 and sentenced to 15 months in jail, barred from any political activity for five years, and ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 francs. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less