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...crimes of Suzanne M. Pomey and Randy J. Gomes, both formerly members of the Class of 2002, were the most highly publicized of the last four years, yet the pair’s post-sentencing lives are also the most mysterious. Both have taken pains to remove themselves from the limelight. For this story, no headway was made into locating Gomes, and it took a lucky Internet search to track an otherwise unlisted Pomey down to Richmond, Va., where she had no comment on her post-Harvard career...
...story begins during intersession in January 2002, when a court unsealed a blockbuster indictment: Pomey and Gomes were being charged with embezzling almost $100,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where both were officials...
...confiscated from Gomes’ dorm room a flat-screen TV, a DJ machine, 91 DVDs and other expensive entertainment equipment which they said had been bought with ill-gotten gains. Police also alleged that stolen money went to pay for Gomes’ drug addiction, expensive clothing for Pomey and an open-bar birthday party that Gomes threw for Pomey at a local restaurant...
...pending felony case, Pomey and Gomes were denied degrees in 2002. After an unsuccessful effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty” at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record...
...judge split the difference. A guilty plea to the grand larceny charge would be a part of Pomey’s and Gomes’ criminal records, but the two would avoid jail time. Gomes was sentenced to five years probation, Pomey...