EL PASO, Texas -- In court documents, 51-year-old Raymond Telles admits to bribery involving the Socorro School District between September 2002 and June 2007. As KFOX reported, he alleges Socorro school board trustees agreed to receive cash money in exchange for their votes with business-seeking vendors. Since his guilty plea last week, the district said it has searched its files and not been able to find any ties with Telles.

But that may no longer be the case.

According to the business calendar of Superintendent Dr. Sylvia Atkinson, on March 8, 2007, she had a meeting with Bobby Ruiz and Chris Pak of Bear Stearns Company. Both men did financial advising for the district and have since plead guilty to either fraud or bribery charges. That same month in a county commissioners meeting, Ruiz said he worked with Telles on a deal concerning county bonds.

At that same county meeting, another man spoke -- Hector Zavaleta of First Southwest Company -- who has served as bond counsel to the Socorro School District, and has admitted to cooperating with the FBI in the ongoing public corruption investigation. During the meeting, he recommended Bear Stearns as lead manager for a county project.

According to Atkinson's calendar, she attended a dinner hosted by Hector Zavaleta on Jan. 30, 2007.

The president of the Socorro Education Association, Glenda Hawthorne, remembers meeting Telles at a school board meeting last year.

"He did not sign up to address the board, he was just there as an observer. I never saw him at another school board meeting after that," Hawthorne said.

Atkinson declined to be interviewed for this story, and through a spokeswoman, later told KFOX she would only answer one question in writing. KFOX declined, believing her status as a public official makes it important she answer follow-up questions.