France's Fillon hit with new allegations over wife's employment

The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine wrote on Tuesday that the wife of French presidential candidate Francois 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 a bombshell article last week that threw frontrunner Fillon's campaign off track, Le Canard said Penelope Fillon was paid a total of 500,000 euros for many years as the assembly assistant of Fillon his successor, but could find no trace o