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Ex-French PM Fighting Charges Over Wife’s $1.1 Million Fake Job
Former French Prime Minister François Fillon and his wife are in court to defend themselves against accusations they got more than 1 million euros ($1.1 million) for a fake job she held as a parliamentary aide for about a decade. Penelope Fillon never set foot in the National Assembly despite being paid as a full-time aide, first to her husband when he was a member of parliament and then his replacement, according to the indictment. For a time, her salary averaged $140,000 a year. Investigators say that they found no trace of the kind of work that might be expected of an aide even though Fillon said his wife ... (full story)
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