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.
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