Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The potential sale of Lasseter's vote was discussed with John Fanning, according to a media report.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Former Gwinnett Commissioner Shirley Lasseter's son has provided federal investigators with information on at least three targets in an ongoing corrpution probe, according to a published report. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, citing federal court documents filed Monday, said John Fanning recorded a series of meetings with at least one person in which they discussed the sale of Lasseter's vote on a matter that the person believed was pending before the Board Of Commissioners. The person ultimately provided $3,000 to Fanning in exchange for Fanning’s assurance that Lasseter, whose District 1 included Suwanee, Duluth and Sugar Hill, would vote favorably on the pending legislation. Fanning, Lasseter and Flowery Branch businessman Carl "Skip…
The former Gwinnett County Commissioner and two others are scheduled to be sentenced for accepting bribes.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Sentencing for former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 2 p.m. in federal district court in Atlanta. On May 31, Lasseter pleaded guilty to accepting $36,000 in bribes in 2011 from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer to support a proposed development on Boggs Road. She faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Lasseter resigned from the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners the same day. Lasseter is a former longtime mayor of Duluth. Her Gwinnett district included Suwanee, Duluth and Sugar Hill. Her son John Fanning and Carl “Skip” Cain of Flowery Branch pleaded guilty to participating in the bribery scheme as well as to drug trafficking. …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Former Gwinnett commissioner asks some Duluth officials, local business and civic leaders, and personal friends to write letters tothe judge who will be sentencing her.
Updated 2:39 p.m., Aug. 8 Former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter has emailed Duluth city officials, the president of the Gwinnett chamber, local civic leaders, and personal friends to request that character reference letters be addressed to the judge who will preside over her Sept. 5 sentencing. Lasseter has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. In her email, Lasseter asked that the letters be emailed to her defense attorney, Stephen Johnson. Lasseter pleaded guilty May 31 in federal court in Atlanta to accepting bribes from an undercover FBI agent posing as a real estate developer. The bribe was in exchange for Lasseter's support for a proposed real estate development in Gwinnett County. She faces a sentence of up to 10…
Friday, August 3, 2012
Her son John Fanning and Carl "Skip" Cain also to be sentenced on new date in federal district court in Atlanta.
Sentencing of former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter, who pleaded guilty in May to accepting bribes, has been delayed until Sept. 5. Lasseter, her son John Fanning and Carl “Skip” Cain of Flowery Branch had been scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 6 in federal district court in Atlanta. Their sentencing hearings will now occur at 2 p.m. on the new date. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta had filed a motion July 20 for at least a 30-day continuance of the defendants’ sentencing to facilitate matters relating to their cooperation with the government’s ongoing investigation into corruption in Gwinnett County. The request was granted by the Atlanta Division of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The order for …
Jim Regan
10:13 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tom what a wonderful idea all citizens should send Judge Parnell a letter expressing our opinions on what Shirley's sentence should be. more ›