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News Nearby: Bribery 'Common' Says Former Gwinnett Commissioner

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Former Gwinnett County Commissioner Says Bribery Was 'Common' – Suwanee Patch

Former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter has said in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that bribery was a common practice in Gwinnett County.

Lasseter, whose district included Suwanee, is slated to enter federal prison soon after pleading guilty and being sentenced to serve 33 months in prison for accepting bribes in 2011 from an undercover FBI agent to approve a proposed development in her commission district. Visit Suwanee Patch for more on this story.

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 – Cartersville Patch

A former Bartow magistrate clerk has been accused of stealing money from the county for more than two years.

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Penny D. Blackmon, 52, now of Lawley, AL, was arrested by a Bartow County Sheriff's Officedeputy yesterday about 2:30 p.m., Sgt. Jonathan Rogers said.

Blackmon faces 116 counts of theft by taking from a government employee for alleged thefts spanning from January 2003 to August 2005, according to the indictment, which was handed down by Bartow's August grand jury in case specially presented by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Visit Cartersville Patch for more on this story.

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