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\"Eloy
Elpidio Yanez Jr. and Eloy Infante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TEXAS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two elected members of the school board of Donna, Texas, admitted today\u00a0to accepting\u00a0bribes in connection with a services contract held by the Donna Independent School District, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eloy Infante<\/strong>, 54; Elpidio Yanez Jr<\/strong>., 45; and Adrian Guerrero<\/strong>, 50, all from Donna, plead guilty today to attempted interference with commerce by extortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Infante and Yanez are both members of the Donna School Board and Guerrero is a private citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sentencing is set for March 22, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

The crimes occurred from February 2015 through May 2015, and the defendants allegedly attempted to extort, and solicited and accepted bribes from, an individual whose company provided services to the school district.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, the indictment alleges that the defendants informed the individual that in order for his company to keep its contract with the school district, he needed to pay Infante and Yanez $10,000 each.<\/span><\/p>\n

The indictment alleges that both Infante and Yanez accepted partial payment of the $10,000, and that Guerrero served as the middleman for one of the payments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI investigated this case.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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