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