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  • Bill would expose high-speed train contractors with Holocaust ties

    06/22/2010 9:00:03 PM PDT · by Willie Green · 32 replies
    San Mateo County Times ^ | 06/22/2010 | Mike Rosenberg
    Train companies and foreign governments that helped support the Holocaust could be barred from working on the California high-speed railroad under a new bill in the Legislature. The legislation would not exempt governments or companies such as France's bullet-train operator, whose locomotives once transported prisoners to concentration camps, from bidding for a piece of the state's $43 billion project starting next year. But it would allow the California High-Speed Rail Authority to disqualify any of those companies or governments based solely on their ties to World War II atrocities, specifically from 1942 to 1944. If contractors fail to provide evidence...