Businessman Pleads Guilty to Corruption; Juvenile Charged in Fatality
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Mark Gary Pleads Guilty to Bribing Shirley Lasseter Gwinnett developer Mark Gary, 39, of Duluth, pleaded guilty Monday (Oct. 1) in federal district court in Atlanta to a charge of bribing then Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter in 2009 to secure approval of a proposed waste transfer station in which he held a personal stake. "Today’s guilty plea shows that paying off a public official is a losing bet," said U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates in a press release issued by her office. "Gwinnett County’s approval of competing real estate developments is not a game in which votes are for sale to the highest bidder. We will continue to aggressively pursue business people who corrupt the system by bribing public officials." Read more …
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