The second time around, beginning in the fall of 1973, Pavlovich was more at ease here. "Jason knew that a lot of what went on the Law School was bullshit. He knew exactly what you had to do to get through," recalls Charles Simpson, a second year law student who served as Spiro's partner in the Law School's 1974-75 Ames competition. Having gone through the Ames once before, Spiro didn't worry much, and the pair got by without great effort. George Munoz, a member of Pavlovich's small study group, remembers telling Spiro he had "better get on the ball or get out of the group." Pavlovich was bright, but friends say he didn't seem to work very hard and he missed a lot of classes. When he did make it to school, he'd often challenge professor after class--an extraordinarily bold move for a first year student, they thought.

Students by and large saw him as a jet-setter, "an eccentric Southern aristocrat" always "flying off the Rio or something." But Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes."

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.

Vagts, who administers the joint law business program in which Spiro was enrolled during his second time here, says he had "a vague feeling of familiarity" when he saw Pavlovich at a cocktail party, but thought he must just be another "old timer." After the arrest, Vagts was amazed that Pavlovich had enrolled for a second time in his seminar. "A death wish," Vagts calls it.

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.

In the fall of 1975, Monette made the transition from Business School wife to Business School student, entering under the name Cary Monica Cabot. Her formidable transcripts, like her husband's, came from UNO, which, according to UNO registrar K. Lance Woodliff, "she attended for a brief time but left without receiving any credit." In the Business School yearbook, however, Monette put Boston as her home town, and Radcliffe and a non-existent Spanish University as her alma maters.

Acquaintances remember Monette speaking occasionally of her fictional undergraduate days. Lucille Sprinkles recalls that Monette told her how disgusted she had been with the lesbianism of Radcliffe women. "She implied she had been a loner then," Sprinkles remembers. "Aloof," "protected," "rich," "prep-schoolish," "snooty" and "very bored and disinterested," is how others who knew her at the Business School describe her.

One reason Monette was bored, according to students in her section, was that she hadn't the foggiest idea of what was going on. "She was either shy or unaware of what we were doing," says Michael Beer, lecturer on Business Administration.

"Everyone in the classroom knew she had neither the brains or the background to be there, so we just kind of assumed she was a Cabot and that was why she was at Harvard," Holly Frost, a member of her section says. "When she did speak," Frost remembers, "it was obvious her statements had come from someplace else. They just didn't fit in--they weren't said at the right time."

No one knows whether or not Spiro was feeding her lines he remembered from his own Business School days. The two were spotted together early in the year at Lincoln's Inn parties and crashing restricted Law School Forum receptions, but later the pair reportedly split up and went out with other students.

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 10.

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 21.

After posting bond, Monette returned to her parents' home in River Ridge, La., where she is now awaiting a removal hearing. Her lawyer says it has been re-scheduled three times because he has "other cases to attend to." He says it has not yet been determined whether the trial (if there is one) will be held in Boston or New Orleans, but she says an arraignment should come soon. Monette's mother will say only that her daughter doesn't wish "to discuss the matter."