In Latest Scandal, Le Pen’s Main Rival Accused Of Getting Wife, Children Jobs Paying €1 Million
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jan 31, 2017
Last week we reported that in the aftermath of a report by the Canard Enchaine newspaper, French financial prosecutors had launched an informal probe into possible misuse of public funds by French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon, who was accused of paying his wife around €500,000 over a period of ten years.
Now one week later, the man who is expected – according to public polls whose reputation over the past year has hit rock bottom – to defeat Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election’s runoff round, was hit with a fresh scandal, after a new report by the same satirical newspaper alleged that Fillon got his wife and two of his children jobs that paid nearly 1 million euros.
According to the report, Penelope Fillon worked as his parliamentary aide for longer than he has admitted and was paid 331,000 more euros for the role than it originally reported. In the new Canard report, the candidate’s wife was paid more for that job than it wrote in its edition last week, reaching a total of 831,440 euros ($897,456) gross. Additionally, two of Fillon’s five children were employed as parliamentary assistants, earning a further 84,000 euros, the report alleged. Le Canard has also written that Penelope Fillon was paid another 100,000 euros for a job at a cultural magazine.
Fillon has denied any wrongdoing and says the work was real. He told TF1 television last week that she was paid from 1997. Le Canard wrote on Tuesday that she was also employed as parliamentary assistant from 1988 to 1990.
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