Jean McCorquodale and her husband Dan McCorquodale are photographed in 2009. (Photo by Sherry Tesler)
After nine months of intense scrutiny surrounding a Santa Clara County-commissioned government history book project that cost taxpayers over $1 million and contained large portions of plagiarized material from sources like Wikipedia, the project has officially been spiked.
Cancellation of the book by Jean McCorquodale, wife of longtime South Bay politician Dan McCorquodale, closes the chapter on a bizarre controversy that raised serious questions about political influence in the county’s contracting practices.
Jean McCorquodale was tasked with what ultimately became a 580-page manuscript as part of a no-bid