MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida mayor was arrested on corruption charges on Wednesday for allegedly failing to disclose he worked as a paid consultant for a health clinic company looking to expand in his city, an official said.
Homestead Mayor Steve Bateman is the third Miami-area mayor arrested on graft charges in recent weeks.
Ed Griffith, a spokesman for State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, said Bateman was arrested at his home as part of a probe into his $125-an-hour consulting job with Community Health of South Florida, Inc.
Bateman worked for the non-profit company while it sought approval from the Homestead city government to expand its clinics in the city, the Miami Herald reported.
Bateman, 58, is facing two felony counts of unlawful compensation on charges he never publicly disclosed his work as a consultant, the Herald reported.
Earlier this month, FBI agents arrested two other mayors in Miami-Dade County on corruption charges alleging the two men separately accepted bribes in connection with purported government contracts awarded to their Miami-area towns.
Manuel Marono, the mayor of Sweetwater, and Michael Pizzi, the mayor of Miami Lakes, were charged with conspiracy to commit extortion and suspended from office.
(Reporting by Kevin Gray; editing by Andrew Hay)
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