PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal jury has convicted a former hospital executive of buying the influence of a Rhode Island lawmaker, but acquitted his former colleague of a similar charge.

The jury deliberated over five days before finding Robert Urciuoli, the former president and chief executive of Roger Williams Medical Center in Providence, guilty of bribing former state Sen. John Celona. But the jury acquitted former hospital vice president Frances Driscoll of participating in the corruption scheme.

Prosecutors said the executives used Celona to advance the hospital's agenda at the Statehouse. But defense lawyers said Celona did legitimate community outreach work for the medical center and an affiliated assisted-living home. This was the executives' second trial. A federal appeals court threw out their 2006 convictions earlier this year because of flawed instructions by the trial judge.

ABC6 Reporter Jennifer Gannon will have the latest on the verdict today on ABC6 News First at Four.