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...Nixon Administration employee--a veteran of undercover work in the fight between "the branches of government;" on other occasions he described himself as a man of "very substantial resources" whose uncle was going to help him buy a 10 million dollar foreign investment firm. One of Pavlovich's last lies before the roof fell in on him concerned his impending trip so Spain for the funeral of Franco and coronation of Prince Juan Carlos, who he claimed was a relative...
Around that time, or perhaps a little before, Spiro had an interview with the prestigious New York firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore. According to a friend, Pavlovich realized the firm's interviewers were suspicious--his claim to being a college placekicker didn't sit well with one of the interviewers who knew his football. Once again, it was the law firm, not the colleges, which did him in; once more boasts of athletic prowess contributed to his downfall...
...thought if he could swing a few faculty votes to his side he might ultimately prevail," the friend says. Pavlovich apparently realized plea bargaining was out of the question. He was "acutely aware that his was a precedent-setting case for loan fraud cases," the friend who spoke to him says, adding that Spiro "thinks he's got the whole world against...
...Pavlovich seems to have been confusing his own two identities. "He saw it as the University's mistake for letting him off the first time without making him promise not to come back," the friend says...
Later, though, the story was different. "Everyone just assumes Spiro Pavlovich is real," Spiro Pavlovich told the friend...