The 2009 videos show Barraza, then a sitting judge, accepting the money while in his office on the 10th floor of the County Courthouse. The first payment was for $1,000 and the second for $3,800.

Prosecutors say these payments were illegal and prove that Barraza was a dishonest judge.

In total, jurors saw or heard seven new tapes on Thursday as Barraza's trial continued in U.S. District Court.

All of the tapes were accompanied by the testimony of Sarai Valencia, 24. FBI agents equipped her with a portable hidden camera and a body wire that captured her dealings with Barraza on audio and videotape.

Valencia, the only witness Thursday, testified for eight hours. She will be back on the stand today.

Barraza's defense team had less than an hour to cross-examine her before the trial was adjourned for the day.

And more important, she said, the FBI promised to try to keep her sister, Diana Rivas Valencia, from being deported to Mexico. Rivas Valencia is facing state drug-possession charges.

She was arrested in September 2008 and charged with possessing two kilos of cocaine. If convicted, Rivas Valencia would lose her legal residency.

During cross-examination, Sarai Valencia said Barraza never told her he would get the charges against her sister dropped.

"He only said that he would help her," Valencia said.

Mosbacker wanted to attack Sarai Valencia's credibility by questioning her about her conviction for prostitution. But U.S. District Court Judge Frank Montalvo ruled that the defense could not bring up her criminal record.

Prosecutors said the focal point of the case was a crooked judge, not the woman who helped expose him. The fact that Barraza took payoffs in a drug case while he was presiding over a drug court constituted a crime, prosecutors said.

All seven tapes played for the jury included conversations between Valencia and Barraza. They talked about her sister's criminal case and what Barraza was doing to help her.

Other parts of the tapes centered on his requests for money and sex with women as a second form of payment.

During a Feb. 24, 2009, conversation, Valencia asked Barraza what he was doing to help her sister. They had money ready for him and women lined up to have sex with him, she said.

Barraza replied that he was still trying to move Rivas Valencia's case onto his docket. Her case was assigned to a different state judge.

"We have not taken our finger off the situation," Barraza said on the tape. "In fact, we have struggled a little more" to move the case into his courtroom.

Barraza told Valencia that the female judge assigned to the case would not transfer it to him. But Barraza said that he and a lawyer, David Biagas, were not giving up.

"That's why I'm telling you that it would be a good thing to disqualify the lady, the judge that's in right now," Barraza said. "Let's see if we can disqualify her so that I can take over the case."

Biagas is a longtime El Paso attorney and was a friend of Barraza's. Biagas turned against Barraza after the scandal broke, becoming a government witness who is scheduled to testify against Barraza.