Florida MAGA candidate caught committing "egregious" plagiarism from Wikipedia: report; Salon, August 10, 2023

TATYANA TANDANPOLIE, Salon ; Florida MAGA candidate caught committing "egregious" plagiarism from Wikipedia: report

"Anthony Sabatini, the chair of the Lake County GOP and a right-wing Florida congressional candidate who proudly declares his undergraduate graduation from the University of Florida with magna cum laude honors, widely plagiarized his 2012 college honors thesis, according to The Daily Beast's review of the treatise. In the paper titled "A Profound Logic of The Blood" centered on the political legacy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Sabatini swiped large portions of his content verbatim from other uncited sources and frequently pulled passages from Wikipedia without providing any clear attribution, the outlet reported.

In some instances, Sabatini, who double-majored in history and philosophy at the university before attending law school, also swapped slightly different words and phrases into the streams of ideas from other authors. In others where he did reference an outside source, The Daily Beast found the citations themselves are often dubious, incorrect and, according to a plagiarism expert, made up. Even the very first sentence of the thesis was lifted almost exactly from the abstract of an academic text published 20 years earlier titled, "The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890-1990."

Croatia’s top judge sues national ethics panel after it finds him guilty of plagiarism; Science, February 22, 2018

Mićo Tatalović, Science; Croatia’s top judge sues national ethics panel after it finds him guilty of plagiarism

"One of Croatia’s top judges is hitting back at the country’s national research ethics panel after having been found guilty of plagiarism. Miroslav Šeparović, president of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia, announced last week that he has filed criminal complaints against all five members of the Committee on Ethics in Science and Higher Education (CESHE), after it concluded that Šeparović’s 2013 doctoral thesis about children’s rights in EU and Croatian law contained repeated instances of “incomplete and opaque citations” of other people’s work.

Šeparović confirmed to Science that he is suing the CESHE members—as a private citizen, not in his capacity of a judge—for misusing their positions and overstepping their jurisdiction, which his own court limited last year. “I am not happy for having to sue, but I have had no alternative,” says Šeparović, who says he seeks to “protect my right to honor and reputation.” Šeparović says he filed the charges on 28 November 2017, days after CESHE ruled against him, and decided to make them public last week after the committee’s unpublished report leaked to the press. Šeparović’s legal team has also called on the CESHE members to resign immediately."