Two men were sentenced to prison Tuesday in connection with a bribery case involving former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter.
Lasseter’s son, John Fanning, 34, of Dacula, and Carl “Skip” Cain, 65, of Flowery Branch, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Charles A. Pannell Jr. to four years and nine months in prison for public corruption and drug offenses.
Fanning and Cain pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to sell Lasseter’s vote on a proposed real estate development project, and for conspiring to traffic cocaine, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Lasseter was sentenced on Sept. 5 to 33 months in prison for her role in the bribery scheme.
Lasseter was ensnared in an undercover FBI investigation in the summer of 2011. All told, she accepted $36,500 in bribes from an undercover agent posing as a businessman who paid her off in exchange for her vote on a proposed real estate development in Lasseter’s district on Boggs Road.
