The business involved $6.2 million in Pensacola area land deals being negotiated by Escambia County officials for public projects. Childers faces 60 days in jail and a $500 fine on the Sunshine law violation. He was acquitted on two other counts.
Okaloosa County Judge T. Patterson Maney will sentence Childers in mid-July. Smith has been suspended and will also be tried this fall on the Sunshine law violation.
But this is only the beginning of Childers' troubles. He faces two more felony charge trials that carry heavier sentences. On those charges, Childers is accused of influencing other commissioners in the county's $3.9 million purchase of a former soccer complex.
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