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Ex-French prime minister’s wife is key figure in fraud trial

by Associated Press
| March 11, 2020 4:30 AM

PARIS (AP) — For over three decades, Penelope Fillon was known as the very discreet wife of a prominent politician who became France’s prime minister. She is now at center stage of a fraud trial in Paris for well-paid, public-funded jobs as an aide to her husband that she allegedly did not perform.

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