OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Mervyn Pinfield

Reginald Mervyn Pinfield (28 February 1912 – 20 May 1966) was a British television producer and director who worked for the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s. By the time Pinfield joined the BBC to work in live drama at Alexandra Palace in the early 1950s, he was a highly experienced producer and manager. During Verity Lambert's tenure as the first producer of Doctor Who, he was the programme's associate producer (from the first episode of An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Romans (1965)).

## Early life

Mervyn Pinfield initially trained as an engineer. Before the war, he worked in the automobile industry in Coventry where he joined the company amateur dramatics society. He eventually resigned his position and joined the Coventry Repertory Company for theatrical training, then joining the company as a full member. For the next three years he gained acting experience till in 1939 he was appointed Producer to the Midlands Art Group. With the outbreak of war, as a trained engineer, he was posted to aircraft manufacturing, in his spare time forming a company of actors to tour and stage plays for the forces. After demobilisation, he formed his own repertory company, "The Star Players", in partnership with Ernest Pickering and Frank Pemberton.
In the summer of 1946 he joined Aurora Productions Limited in Dunfermline as Producer, and then Falkirk where a season of plays was staged. In 1946 he moved with Aurora to Cromer and Great Yarmouth where the company settled at the Little Theatre, Royal Aquarium, where he was acting producer and general manager. In 1948 he left Aurora and joined the newly formed Morecombe Repertory Theatre Limited as Producer at the Royalty Theatre. Pinfield spent 4 years with the Royalty, leaving in April 1953 having been appointed Studio Manager at the BBC TV studios in Lime Grove, and then Productions Assistant in September 1955 .

## Doctor Who

In 1963, he was appointed to the position of associate producer for Doctor Who to support Verity Lambert, as it was the first programme for which she was the producer. He also directed episodes one to four of The Sensorites, all four episodes of The Space Museum and episodes one and two of Planet of Giants for the series, and worked as director on other BBC series such as Compact (Day Of Deliverance and Fare Thee Well For I Must Leave Thee), The Monsters, and The Franchise Affair. (There is some debate that he might have directed episode 3 of The Reign of Terror when assigned director Henric Hirsch collapsed from nervous exhaustion. However, there are conflicting reports that John Gorrie in fact directed the episode even though he claims to have no recollection of this.)
Pinfield's engineering background held him in good stead in directing Doctor Who programmes with their complex special effects. He was also known as the inventor of an early type of teleprompter, or autocue, which he called the Piniprompter.
In 2013, as part of the programme's 50th anniversary celebrations, the BBC broadcast the docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time, which recounted the creation and early days of Doctor Who. Pinfield was portrayed by Jeff Rawle.
# Alphonse Henriquez

Alphonse Henriquez (1879 – 20 December 1955) was a Haitian composer. His work was part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
# Thalassionema

Thalassionema is a genus of Chromista belonging to the family Thalassionemataceae.
The genus was described in 1902 by Grunow ex Mereschkowsky.
Species:
# Miroslava Skleničková

Miroslava Skleničková (born 11 March 1951, in Karlovy Vary), also known as Miroslava Denková, is a Czech former gymnast who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
# Athletics at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics – Girls' long jump

The girls’ long jump competition at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics was held on 20–23 August 2014 in Nanjing Olympic Sports Center.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 20 August 2014 | 20:00 | Qualification |
| 23 August 2014 | 19:10 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

First 50% of the athletes from the Qualification round progress to the A Final and the remaining athletes to the B Final.
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Result | Notes | Q |
| 1 | Beatrice Fiorese (ITA) | x | 5.96 | 5.96 | 6.26 | 6.26 | PB | FA |
| 2 | Hanne Maudens (BEL) | 6.07 | 6.01 | 5.85 | 6.00 | 6.07 | | FA |
| 3 | Yelyzaveta Baby (UKR) | 5.97 | 5.99 | x | 5.98 | 5.99 | | FA |
| 4 | Mari Dzagnidze (GEO) | 5.78 | 5.82 | 5.90 | 5.88 | 5.90 | | FA |
| 5 | Kristal Liburd (SKN) | x | 5.66 | 5.79 | 5.65 | 5.79 | | FA |
| 6 | Rhesa Foster (USA) | x | x | x | 5.76 | 5.76 | | FA |
| 7 | Magali Roche (CAN) | 5.70 | 5.60 | 5.57 | 5.47 | 5.70 | | FA |
| 8 | Esraa Owis (EGY) | 5.55 | 5.50 | 5.56 | 5.70 | 5.70 | SB | FA |
| 9 | Sharin Oziegbe (GER) | 5.57 | 5.37 | x | 5.50 | 5.57 | | FB |
| 10 | Elen Vasconcelos (BRA) | x | 5.10 | 5.57 | x | 5.57 | | FB |
| 11 | Ekaterina Kropivko (RUS) | 5.32 | 5.41 | 5.48 | 5.50 | 5.50 | | FB |
| 12 | Noemí Sempere (ESP) | x | 5.38 | x | 5.49 | 5.49 | | FB |
| 13 | Wen Wan-Ju (TPE) | 5.41 | 5.34 | x | 5.42 | 5.42 | | FB |
| 14 | Kala Penn (IVB) | 4.76 | 5.08 | 5.22 | 4.93 | 5.22 | | FB |
| 15 | Masterline Saint-Vil (HAI) | 4.43 | 4.25 | 4.22 | 4.22 | 4.43 | | FB |

### Finals
#### Final A

| Rank | Final Placing | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Result | Notes |
| | 1 | Yelyzaveta Baby (UKR) | 5.98 | 6.12 | 6.26 | 5.95 | 6.26 | PB |
| | 2 | Beatrice Fiorese (ITA) | 6.00 | 6.21 | 6.04 | 5.13 | 6.21 | |
| | 3 | Rhesa Foster (USA) | 5.62 | 6.17 | x | 5.98 | 6.17 | PB |
| 4 | 4 | Hanne Maudens (BEL) | x | 5.99 | 6.04 | 6.03 | 6.04 | |
| 5 | 5 | Kristal Liburd (SKN) | 5.77 | 5.44 | 5.92 | 5.70 | 5.92 | |
| 6 | 6 | Magali Roche (CAN) | 5.44 | 5.79 | 5.90 | 5.75 | 5.90 | |
| 7 | 7 | Mari Dzagnidze (GEO) | 5.87 | x | 5.87 | 5.83 | 5.87 | |
| 8 | 8 | Esraa Owis (EGY) | 5.65 | 5.62 | 5.62 | 5.70 | 5.70 | =SB |

#### Final B

| Rank | Final Placing | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Result |
| 1 | 9 | Ekaterina Kropivko (RUS) | 5.66 | 5.92 | 5.87 | 5.83 | 5.92 |
| 2 | 10 | Elen Vasconcelos (BRA) | x | x | 5.60 | 5.59 | 5.60 |
| 3 | 11 | Noemí Sempere (ESP) | x | 5.41 | x | 5.53 | 5.53 |
| 4 | 12 | Wen Wan-Ju (TPE) | x | x | 5.41 | x | 5.41 |
| 5 | 13 | Sharin Oziegbe (GER) | 5.40 | 5.32 | x | x | 5.40 |
| 6 | 14 | Kala Penn (IVB) | 5.19 | 4.89 | 5.18 | 5.08 | 5.19 |
| 7 | 15 | Masterline Saint-Vil (HAI) | 4.32 | 4.14 | 4.26 | 4.37 | 4.37 |
# Sea Devils (1931 film)

Sea Devils is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Joseph Levering and starring Molly O'Day, Edmund Burns and Walter Long.

## Cast

* Molly O'Day as Ann McCall
* Edmund Burns as Richard Charters
* Walter Long a Johnson the First Mate
* Paul Panzer as Steve the Radio Operator
* Henry Otto as Governor
* Jules Cowles as Attorney
# Anthurium tenaense

Anthurium tenaense is a species of plant in the family Araceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
# Alyona Mikhaylova

Alyona Mikhaylova is a Russian TV and film actress.
Born in Perm in 1995, Mikhaylova is a Perm State Institute of Culture graduate (Theatre and Film Acting, Tatyana Zharkova's course). In 2018, Mikhaylova starred in Tesla Boy's videoclip Compromise. After graduation, she moved to Moscow to pursue a career in filmmaking.
In 2019, she played the main part in Maria Agranovich's movie Love Them All. In 2020, she starred in three TV series: Vodovorot (TV series) [ru], Wolf (Russian TV series) [ru], and Chiki (TV series) [ru].
In 2021, she played in Roman Vasyanov's film Hostel movie and in Roman Kiriyenko's TV series The Happiness Clinic. In 2021, she played Antonina Miliukova in Kirill Serebrennikov's drama Tchaikovsky's Wife, a participant in the competition program of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Mikhaylova's performance in the film was praised by critics as tremendous.
# McCarthy v Wellington City

McCarthy v Wellington City [1966] NZLR 481 is a cited case in New Zealand regarding the legal issue of causation involving negligence cases in tort.

## Background

The council had left a safe containing explosives unfastened to the ground and without any warning signs in a local quarry.
Some boys from a nearby suburb managed to open the safe by pulling out the pins on the hinges and took the explosives from the safe home with them.
The boys later gave some of the explosives to another boy, who later had one of the detonators explode in his hand, causing injury.
His parents sued the council for negligence. The council defended the matter by arguing that the injury was unforeseeable, and even if it was foreseeable, causation had been broken by the intervening act of a third party, namely by the boy giving the injured boy the detonator.

## Held

The High Court ruled that the injury was foreseeable, and awarded damages, and this judgment was later upheld by the Court of Appeal.
Footnote: The Accident Compensation Act [1974] now bars such a claim
# List of libraries in Belize

List of Libraries in Belize, Central America
National Library Service of Belize
* The San Pedro Public Library
* National Heritage Library, Belmopan City
* Leo Bradley Library
* Port Loyola Public Library
* Hopkins Library
University of Belize Librarys
* Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Belize City.
* Punta Gorda Library.
* Faculty of Agriculture at Central Farm
* Main Central Campus Library, Belmopan City.
Belize Law Library of Congress
Supreme Court Law Library
Baron Bliss Institute, Belize City
Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute Research/Reference Library
Belize ELibrary
Belize Virtual Health Library
Sarteneja Public Library.
# Michele Antonio Vibò

Michele Antonio Vibò (1630–1713) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Turin (1690–1713) and Apostolic Internuncio to France (1667–1668 and 1671–1672).

## Biography

Michele Antonio Vibò was born in Turin, Italy on 27 September 1630. He was ordained a deacon on 20 December 1654 and ordained a priest on 21 December 1654. In April 1667, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Apostolic Internuncio to France; he resigned in March 1668. In July 1671, he was again appointed during the papacy of Pope Clement X as Apostolic Internuncio to France; he resigned in June 1672. On 27 November 1690, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VIII as Archbishop of Turin. On 16 December 1690, he was consecrated bishop by Gasparo Carpegna, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere. He served as Archbishop of Turin until his death on 13 February 1713.
While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Michel-Gabriel Rossillon de Bernex, Bishop of Genève (1697).
# Appletree (Erykah Badu song)

"Appletree" is a song recorded by American singer Erykah Badu for her debut studio album Baduizm (1997). The song was written by Badu and Robert Bradford. It was released as the fourth and final single from Baduizm on November 17, 1997, by Kedar Records and Universal Records.

## Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Appletree" :
| Chart (1997–1998) | Peak position |
| Scotland (OCC) | 85 |
| UK Singles (OCC) | 47 |
| UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) | 11 |
| US Adult R&B Songs (Billboard) | 23 |
| US R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay (Billboard) | 30 |

## Release history

Release dates and formats for "Appletree" :
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) |
| United Kingdom | November 17, 1997 | Cassettetwo maxi CDs | KedarUniversal |
| United States | April 6, 1998 | Urban contemporary radio | KedarUniversal |
| United States | April 7, 1998 | Contemporary hit radiorhythmic contemporary radio | KedarUniversal |
# Sex with a Smile II

Sex with a Smile II (originally titled Spogliamoci così, senza pudor) is a 1976 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Sergio Martino. Like its predecessor, Sex with a Smile, it is an anthology sex comedy film with a series of four comedic sketches that parody Italian sexual mores.

## Cast

* Ursula Andress: Marina
* Johnny Dorelli: Marco Antonioli
* Aldo Maccione: the detective
* Barbara Bouchet: Violante
* Enrico Montesano: Dante Zatteroni
* Alberto Lionello: Giangi Busacca
* Nadia Cassini: Françoise
* Ninetto Davoli: Pietro
* Maria Baxa: Maria
* Alvaro Vitali: Broccolini
* Gianrico Tedeschi: Silvestri
* Brenda Welch: soccer player
* Daniele Vargas: Lawyer Sante Zenaro
# Louise Brun

Louise Larsine Brun née Gulbrandsen (16 December 1830 – 21 January 1866), was a Norwegian actress. She is counted among the most famed and most noted actors in Norway in the 19th century.

## Biography

She was the daughter of Ole Gulbrandsen Spor and wife Ingeborg Olsdatter England, and grew up at Smørsalmenningen in Bergen, Norway where her father ran his own beer brewery. She was the elder sister of stage actress and concert singer Birgitte Cornelia Rojahn (1839-1927).
Louise Brun debuted on the stage at the Det norske Theater in Bergen. At the opening performance on January 2, 1850, she was selected to play the role of Lucretia in the three-act comedy Den vægelsindede by Ludvig Holberg.
In 1851, she married her colleague Johannes Brun (1832–1890), also one of the most noted Norwegian actors of his time. Together with her husband in 1852 she went on a study trip to Copenhagen.
In 1857, the couple moved to Oslo, where she was active the remaining years of her career. She was considered to be artistic and with an intelligent apprehension ability. She played both tragedy and comedy, but was most known within the so-called salon-comedies, a popular genre of the period.
# McCartin

McCartin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Joe McCartin (born 1939), Irish politician
* Joseph McCartin (born 1959), American historian
* Mandy McCartin (born 1958), English artist
* Paddy McCartin (born 1996), Australian footballer
* Tom McCartin (born 1999), Australian footballer
# Anzac Wallace

Anzac Hohepa Wallace (born Norman Pene Rewiri; 15 September 1945 – 8 April 2019), also known as Zac Wallace, was a New Zealand actor and former trade union delegate. He is best known for his role as Te Wheke in the 1983 New Zealand film Utu.

## Early life

Wallace was born on 15 September 1945. He grew up in Mission Bay, Auckland. His iwi affiliation was Ngāpuhi. As a youth, he was involved in petty crime, eventually escalating to armed robbery, for which he spent several years in prison until 1974. During his time in prison, he taught himself to read. He then went to work in earthmoving, working as part of the Auckland Mangere Bridge project.

## Career

Despite having minimal acting experience, Wallace was cast in the lead role of Te Wheke in Geoff Murphy's acclaimed 1983 film Utu. In 1985 he appeared in The Silent One, The Quiet Earth and Dangerous Orphans. Shortly afterwards, he departed for Australia, returning to New Zealand in 2013. He appeared in Shortland Street as Rocky Hannah in 2016.

## Death

Wallace died on 8 April 2019 from cancer. He was survived by his wife, Deidre Nehua.
# Tulosesus heterosetulosus

Tulosesus heterosetulosus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae.

## Taxonomy

It was first classified as Coprinus heterosetulosus by the French mycologist Marcel Locquin in 1947.
In 2001 a phylogenetic study resulted in a major reorganization and reshuffling of that genus and this species was transferred to Coprinellus.
The species was known as Coprinellus heterosetulosus until 2020 when the German mycologists Dieter Wächter & Andreas Melzer reclassified many species in the Psathyrellaceae family based on phylogenetic analysis.

## Description

It is a coprophilous fungus, known to grow on the dung of either sheep or goats.
# Athletics at the 2015 African Games – Men's 10,000 metres

Athletics at the 2015 African Games :
| Track events |||||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | women |
| 100 m hurdles | | women |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | women |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | women |
| 4×100 m relay | men | women |
| 4×400 m relay | men | women |
| Road events |||||
| Half marathon | men | women |
| 20 km walk | men | women |
| Field events |||||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | women |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | women |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Hammer throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | women |
| Combined events |||||
| Heptathlon | | women |
| Decathlon | men | |
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The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2015 African Games was held on 17 September.

## Results

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Tsebelu Zewude | Ethiopia | 27:27.19 |
| | Leonard Barsoton | Kenya | 27:27.55 |
| | Adugna Takele | Ethiopia | 27:28.40 |
| 4 | Vincent Kipsegechi | Kenya | 27:40.08 |
| 5 | Geoffrey Kipkorir | Kenya | 28:09.65 |
| 6 | Afewerki Berhane | Eritrea | 28:17.87 |
| 7 | Mule Wasihun | Ethiopia | 28:23.87 |
| 8 | Tsegay Tuemay | Eritrea | 28:24.30 |
| 9 | Félicien Muhitira | Rwanda | 29:00.23 |
| 10 | Olivier Irabaruta | Burundi | 29:17.18 |
| 11 | Eric Sebahire | Rwanda | 29:24.68 |
| 12 | Hatusi Mthimchulu | Lesotho | 31:08.88 |
| 13 | Osman Charlley | Sierra Leone | 33:15.21 |
| | Rony Ampion | Republic of the Congo | DNF |
| | Kabelo Lesica | Lesotho | DNF |
| | Thiery Ndikumwenayo | Burundi | DNS |
| | Stuart Banda | Malawi | DNS |
# Michele Antonio Varano

Michele Antonio Varano (Italian pronunciation:; born 13 July 1951) is an Italian criminal accused of being a member of the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-type organisation in Calabria.
From 2000, he was on the Italian "most wanted list" for membership of a criminal organization. Varano has been accused (but not convicted) of tobacco smuggling and other crimes. The Italian authorities tried unsuccessfully over many years to have him extradited from other countries, but he eventually gave himself up to the authorities at Genoa in 2014.
He is currently serving a prison sentence for identity card offences, while investigators consider bringing other charges.

## Cigarette smuggling allegations

Varano was arrested on 12 May 2009, in Gandria, Switzerland. According to a statement by the Swiss office of the Federal Prosecutor in 2008, he was among ten people accused of laundering more than US$1 billion made by cigarette-smuggling operations between the early 1990s and 2001.
As reported by Italian judicial investigators, Varano's organisation had illegally transported cigarettes between Italy and Montenegro using speedboats, with the Montenegrin authorities collecting money on special licences and transit fees. According to the Italian prosecutors, this organisation had enjoyed the protection of the Montenegrin prime minister Milo Đukanović. Officials in Montenegro denied any wrongdoing.
The contraband cigarettes were stored in Montenegro before being smuggled into Italy to be sold on the black market in Naples and Apulia. Italians bought more than two billion packets of such cigarettes over more than ten years, and much of the proceeds was channelled into Swiss bank accounts by financial couriers.

## Convicted of carrying a false identity card

Varano was tried before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, and in July 2009 he was acquitted on the charges of money laundering and cigarette smuggling through the so-called "Montenegro connection". However, in May 2010 he was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison for carrying a false identity card. He surrendered to the police on 2 December 2014 in Genoa.
# Apollonius (crater)

Apollonius is a lunar impact crater located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies in the region of uplands to the west of Mare Undarum and northeast of the Sinus Successus on the Mare Fecunditatis. It was named after Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga. It is southwest of the crater Firmicus, and north of Condon.
The outer rim of Apollonius is somewhat worn and is overlain by a pair of small craters (including Apollonius E) across the western wall. The nearly flat interior floor has a low albedo and has been covered by lava. It lacks a central peak or notable small craters across the bottom.

## Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Apollonius.
| Apollonius | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
| A | 4.8° N | 56.8° E | 24 km |
| B | 5.7° N | 57.6° E | 32 km |
| E | 4.4° N | 61.9° E | 16 km |
| F | 5.6° N | 60.0° E | 16 km |
| H | 3.4° N | 59.6° E | 20 km |
| J | 4.6° N | 57.5° E | 12 km |
| L | 6.5° N | 54.6° E | 9 km |
| M | 4.8° N | 61.9° E | 10 km |
| N | 4.8° N | 64.1° E | 9 km |
| S | 1.1° N | 62.6° E | 15 km |
| U | 4.9° N | 59.9° E | 7 km |
| V | 4.4° N | 58.2° E | 16 km |
| X | 7.0° N | 58.1° E | 31 km |
| Y | 4.9° N | 62.6° E | 10 km |
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.
* Apollonius C — See Ameghino (crater).
* Apollonius D — See Cartan (crater).
* Apollonius G — See Townley (crater).
* Apollonius K — See Abbot (crater).
* Apollonius P — See Daly (lunar crater).
* Apollonius T — See Bombelli (crater).
* Apollonius W — See Petit (crater).
* Apollonius N is a concentric crater
* Oblique view of Apollonius N from Apollo 17
# Antissa (fly)

Antissa is a genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.

## Species

* Antissa cuprea (Walker, 1849)
# Alphonse Guépin

Alphonse Guépin (17 February 1808 in Uzel – 8 December 1878 in Saint-Brieuc) was a French architect and building restorer.
He was specialized in churches in Côtes-d'Armor.
* Saint-Pierre church in Plessala
* Saint-Gwénaël church in Lescouët-Gouarec
* Church in Plouézec
* Church in Lanrivain
* Anatole-le-Braz school in Saint-Brieuc
His main building was the Court in Saint-Brieuc, built in 1863.
# Mesquita Machado

Francisco Soares Mesquita Machado (born 18 April 1947), commonly known as simply Mesquita Machado, is a Portuguese former politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he was the mayor of Braga from the first democratic elections in 1976 until 2013. He was also a member of the Assembly of the Republic from the first elections in 1976 until 1991.

## Early life

Mesquita Machado was born in 1947 in Pousada de Saramagos, a small village near Vila Nova de Famalicão in Braga District. At age five he migrated to Venezuela with his parents, and at 13 he returned to attend school in Braga while living with a great aunt. He is a qualified Metallurgical Engineer.

## Political career

Mesquita Machado joined the Socialist Party in 1975 and was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in the following year's election, the first free elections since the Carnation Revolution. He served in the cabinet of prime minister Mário Soares.
In the local elections of December 1976, 29-year-old Mesquita Machado was voted mayor of Braga, again in the first such democratic elections. He was still in power in October 2009, when he won the majority of votes against his PSD rival Ricardo Rio.
Having won ten consecutive local elections, Mesquita Machado was unable to contest the September 2013 elections due to a new term-limit law barring candidates from exceeding three consecutive terms as mayor. His party lost control of Braga City Hall to Rio's right-wing coalition.

## Legal issues

In October 2017, Mesquita Machado and five members of his former local government were put on trial for allegedly attempting to expropriate properties to benefit his daughter and son-in-law; the proposed deal was cancelled by the new local government. He was convicted and given a suspended sentence of three years in July 2018, confirmed on appeal a year later. In October 2020, the conviction was upheld by the Constitutional Court.
In February 2020, Mesquita Machado was acquitted of accusations of favouritism in the allocation of contracts to build parking spaces in Braga.

## Honours

On 10 June 1990, Mesquita Machado was made a Commander of the Order of Prince Henry. On 3 January 2003, Spain made him a Commander of the Order of Civil Merit.