MIAMI (AP) — The corruption trial of former Homestead mayor Steven Bateman is getting under way with jury selection in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.

Bateman faces two counts of unlawful compensation in the trial beginning Monday. Prosecutors say he illegally took a $125-an-hour consulting job with a health company while using his position as mayor to gain necessary city and county permits for the company’s proposed children’s center in Homestead.

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