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Monette M. Pavlovich, a former Business School student who registered under the name "Cary Monica Cord," pleaded guilty in New Orleans two weeks ago to having made false statements in an application for a federally insured $2500 student loan...
...Spiro bounced back quickly. That fall he enrolled at the University of New Orleans (formerly Louisiana State University at New Orleans) as a transfer student from Tulane, with an allegedly false transcript. Equipped with a new name, Jason Scott Cord, he completed a very successful stint at UNO. And then it was off to Cambridge again for Round II--this time with Uncle Sam guaranteeing repayment of Harvard's loans...
Simpson recalls that Spiro let it slip he had been to Harvard before, and that his name was now different from what it once had been. "He said he hadn't wanted to be associated with Agnew." Why he chose Jason Scott Cord still remains a mystery. Pavlovich told a friend after his arrest that if the newspapers thought the name had come from Jonas Scott Cord, a villain in Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers, "that was fine," but untrue. No matter what the name, however--nobody suspected...
Apparently Spiro was not worried. During his first or second year, Monette joined him in Cambridge. She was introduced as his wife, Monica Cord from New York, and although few remember her from that period, two recipes by a "Monica Cord" appeared in the Business School Wives Association's 1974-1975 cookbook...
Even the University computer remembers him. It still prints out that name on class lists for his course on "Law and Business Problems: Jason...Scott...Cord...