The explanation Pomey gave Theta members was that her parents had donated the money, Christoduolo said. According to the Delphic, Theta and Pomey were entirely responsible for funding the night’s festivities.

“The bill for that event was covered by Theta,” Delphic spokesperson Gregory D. Henning ’02 said.

According to court records, that same day, Oct. 5, Pomey withdrew $5,000 from the Theatricals’ accounts and transferred the funds to her own credit card. That one day’s total transfer was nearly ten times the amount of any of the six $300-600 transfers to Pomey’s account made between March and mid-Nov. of that year.

Reached at Pomey’s family home in Vine Brook, Kentucky, Pomey’s father Alfred H. Pomey declined to comment on the charges against his daughter or if he had financially assisted his daughter or helped to repay the debt to the Theatricals.

“It’s an inside family matter, and we’d like to keep it that way,” he said.

The Gomes Connection

Another intriguing mystery surrounding the two Pudding defendants is Gomes’ repeated claim that he is related to the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of christian morals and Pusey minister of Memorial Church.

Numerous friends, work colleagues, and members of the Pudding report that Randy Gomes has claimed that he is the nephew of the famed professor.

However, while Rev. Gomes admitted knowing Randy’s family in Plymouth, Mass., he denied they are directly related.

“He’s a dear boy and I know his family and his great-grandparents but he is not related to me,” Rev. Gomes said yesterday. “Not that that makes much difference to me, I care very much for him.”

Indeed, Rev. Gomes’ on-line biography indicates that it would be impossible for Randy Gomes to be the nephew of the professor.

“Peter John Gomes was born May 22, 1942, in Boston, an only child,” the biography reads.

“His father, Peter Lobo Gomes, was born in the Cape Verde Islands in 1908. The elder Gomes immigrated to the United States in the 1920s and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts,” it reads.

Randy Gomes is also from Plymouth Mass., but the town’s large Cape Verdean population makes Gomes a common name there.

Gomes’ parents, who sat with their son at Tuesday’s arraignment, did not pick up the phone at their Plymouth, Mass. home, where a young man’s voice asks callers to leave a message on the answering machine.

—Staff Writer Joseph P. Flood contributed to the reporting of this story.

—Staff Writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu.