Board of Education Vice President Carolyn Graham ordered the school finance office to pay tens of thousands of dollars to contractors two months after being warned that several of the contractors were suspect, a memo obtained by The Examiner shows.

Thememo, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, contradicts Graham’s previous denials that she had helped charter school executive Brenda Belton obtain funding for the contractors. Dated May 17, it came two months after whistle-blower Steve Kapani told Graham and other board members that he suspected Belton was funneling money to herself and her friends through a series of companies.