FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Shock waves were still being felt Thursday in Broward County, the day after three well-known politicians were arrested on corruption charges.

Former Miramar city Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman, Broward County Commissioner Joe Eggelletion and Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher, along with three others, were arrested Wednesday. All three have been released on bond.

Eggelletion's daughter told Local 10's Michael Putney Thursday that her father was not at home.

"He maintains his innocence," said Johnny McCray, Eggelletion's attorney.

In Pembroke Pines, Gallagher's daughter opened the door of her home a crack and said her mother was not there.

At some point, Gallagher will have to talk about the man she knew as Pat Foster of LeBeck Asset Management, which wanted Broward school construction contracts. Gallagher is accused of receiving $12,500 to help the company.

What Gallagher did not realize was that Foster was an FBI agent recording their conversations, and LeBeck Asset Management was a fictional company, prosecutors said.

"It didn't even really have a real address, so very quickly we knew that that was a dummy company. We didn't know why, but we knew that that company was a dummy company, so they were not prequalified by the board to do work for us," said Michael Garretson, Broward's deputy superintendent of facilities.

Gallagher was not deterred, according to a criminal complaint. She is accused of approaching the head of a big Broward County construction company that had built several district schools and asked him to use LeBeck as a subcontractor.

When the $71 million bid came up on a new Hollywood Hills High School, the FBI said, Gallagher tried to steer it to that big construction company and promised to call Garretson.

"No, Ms. Gallagher did not speak to me about any one of those companies -- no, not at all," Garretson said.

The governor has suspended Gallagher and Eggelletion, and the competition to succeed them has begun. A leading candidate to succeed Eggelletion is Lauderhill city Commissioner Margaret Bates. Former Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Tim Smith also has said he will apply.