Nada Behziz was a reporter at The Bakersfield Californian focusing on health issues. However, she was fired and when her editors discovered that an article she had written about teenage smoking plagiarized a quotation from a 1995 story in the San Francisco Examiner. A further investigation found evidence of plagiarism in 29 other pieces she had written, representing more than one third of her work.
Behziz’s scandal happened in 2005, well after the rise of the Internet and though it was fairly big news at the time, it seems she has managed to more or less disappear. As such, it shows that, with time, the scars of plagiarism do fade.