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Meanwhile, Spiro's boasts continued. Sometimes he told friends he was an ex-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...
This time, however, Harvard could not afford to be as lenient as it had been before. His alleged falsification of the federally guaranteed loan application constituted a federal crime. The University turned a handwriting analysis and other evidence over to the FBI, and Spiro was arrested on December...
Monette's arrest was not long in coming. After Spiro was caught, she told a reporter from the Law Record she was not married to him, which everyone knew was untrue. Records were checked, suspicions confirmed, and Monette high-tailed it from her Chase Hall room down to New Orleans, where she finally surrendered to the FBI on January...
Although his Homer Ave. apartment has been sublet, Spiro is still living somewhere in Boston. In January, during Law School exams, he showed up "in disguise," as a student said, with a stocking cap pulled down over huge glasses. He paused in the hall to speak with a friend...