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Ex-Gwinnett Commissioner Shirley Lasseter talks to FOX 5

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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -

She's a grandmother, a once-popular political figure but now a convicted felon who admits she took bribes. That's why many people in Gwinnett County still can't understand how former commissioner Shirley Lasseter wound up in such trouble.

Lasseter tells FOX 5 I-Team reporter Randy Travis she did it to herself, but she's not the big fish.

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