Author of plagiarized Santa Clara County book to keep $1M in taxpayer money

Jean McCorquodale and her husband Dan McCorquodale are photographed in 2009. (Photo by Sherry Tesler)

The writer behind a canceled Santa Clara County-commissioned government history book plagiarized from sources like Wikipedia will keep the $1 million she earned from the project.

Jean McCorquodale, wife of longtime South Bay politician Dan McCorquodale, was awarded a no-bid contract in 2018 to complete what ultimately became a 580-page manuscript turned in two years late to the county executive’s office — the department overseeing the project.

A grant writer for the county for decades, Jean McCorquodale was selected as the project’s author because of her purported unique

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