Lawmaker’s Wife Plagiarized $2.45 Million Report

The wife of a former California state senator extensively plagiarized a manuscript that she had been paid at least $2.45 million to write, the San Jose Mercury News reports.

The 580-page manuscript, which reportedly fell two years behind schedule before finally being delivered in January, contained paragraphs that appeared to have been lifted wholesale from “Wikipedia, the History Channel, the Mercury News, the Washington Post, county web pages and other sources, about half of them without footnotes.”