University Attorney Anne Taylor, Harvard's point person on the Evening With Champions issue, says her office is evaluating every possibility for reforming the way the show is run.
"We are certainly evaluating this situation again and again," Taylor said.
Jill Reilly, a spokesperson for the district attorney, says her office's investigation of the Evening With Champions matter will take months. She says investigators are treating the matter as "a white collar crime case--the embezzlement or stealing of funds." The district attorney will be following a "paper trail" of bank documents and receipts, Reilly says.
In an interview last month, Lee said many of the accounting books for the event have been thrown away or are likely lost and unrecoverable. He said Sword kept a milk carton full of receipts that Lee believes are now missing.
Sword has not returned phone calls from The Crimson, and his father, speaking last week on his behalf, would not comment.
Some students involved in Evening With Champions workers say they remember Lee discussing debts and complaining about how previous records were kept.
"There were records of everything kept at one time," says the former Evening With Champions official. "As for where they were kept, I don't remember."
Lee said in the same interview that he decided to forego a donation to the Jimmy Fund before the show last fall so that the charity could pay off longstanding debts and meet mounting expenses.
However, Jimmy Fund Executive Director Mike Andrews and students in Eliot have expressed doubt about that statement. They have said that in May of this year Lee attended a ceremony to present a commemorative blow-up check to Andrews for more than $100,000.
When this year's co-chairs, Jonathan Kolodner '94 and Kelly Morrison '94, prepared to make the donation promised in the blow-up check, they discovered the money was missing.
But neither they nor the district attorney seem to know where this missing money went.
And for two members of the Class of 1993, it is this mystery that has turned a sunny June into a cloudy summer.