Holocaust Reparations by French Railway System

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Apparently, this shakedown effort may doom the entire project:

"A $900 million federal grant to build a light-rail Purple Line would be jeopardized if Maryland lawmakers require an affiliate of one of the project’s bidders to compensate Holocaust victims it transported to Nazi death camps, according to a top attorney for the Federal Transit Administration.

The legislation, which targets the government-owned French rail company SNCF, presents “legal concerns,” according to a letter, dated Thursday, from FTA Deputy Chief Counsel Dana Nifosi to the Maryland Transit Administration. Federal procurement rules require “full and open competition,” Nifosi wrote, and would not allow federal money for a contract solicited with “exclusionary or discriminatory” specifications."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/...4bf_story.html