A Paper Trail

The Middlesex District Attorney's office has been investigating the case since last summer, when the money was discovered missing.

Lee and the other organizers of the fall 1992 Evening With Champions show had promised the Jimmy Fund a donation of more than $100,000.

To make the pledge official, they had held a ceremony of Eliot House where a commemorative check for more the $100,000 was presented to Andrews. No real money changed hands then , but the co-chairs of the 1993 show, Jonathan S. Kolodner '94 and Kelly L. Morrison '94, were expected to deliver about $160,000 to the cancer charity when they took over the summer.

But shortly after they assumed responsibility, Kolodner and Morrison discovered that the money was gone.

Harvard's attorneys were notified, and the department of internal audit identified the $160,000 as missing.

Reilly said the district attorney's office followed a "paper trail" to gather evidence that Lee and Sword took the money.

She said District Attorney Tom Reilly utilized information from a University audit, as well as other financial records.

Reilly said a trail of money, checks and bank statements revealed a pattern of money withdrawn from the Evening With Champions fund into the separate accounts of Lee and Sword.

The district attorney's office found 83 checks payable to Lee from the Eliot House Jimmy Fund account, Reilly said.

In Sword's case, Reilly said, most of the money allegedly taken was c ash and thus more difficult to track, so the attorney decided to prosecute on only one count.

But Reilly said the district attorney's office found 27 checks payable to Sword, as well as found money market transfers.

About $30,000 of the missing money is unaccounted for, Reilly said.

The arraignment date for Lee and Sword has not been set, but will likely be early next month, Reilly said.

James W. Lawson, Lee's attorney, said his client would voluntarily surrender and enter a plea of not guilty.