In the reunion report published before his arrest, Hunt wrote that he was grateful for the opportunities his job presented him. “I have loved working at Harvard despite my checkered past here,” he wrote. “The students are continually amazing, interesting and accomplished, although sometimes purporting to be clueless.”

Hasty Pudding Embezzlers Used $100K To Live 'Lavish Lifestyle'

The crimes of Suzanne M. Pomey and Randy J. Gomes, both formerly members of the Class of 2002, were the most highly publicized of the last four years, yet the pair’s post-sentencing lives are also the most mysterious. Both have taken pains to remove themselves from the limelight. For this story, no headway was made into locating Gomes, and it took a lucky Internet search to track an otherwise unlisted Pomey down to Richmond, Va., where she had no comment on her post-Harvard career.

The story begins during intersession in January 2002, when a court unsealed a blockbuster indictment: Pomey and Gomes were being charged with embezzling almost $100,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where both were officials.

The indictment charged that, for over a year, the pair had been moving funds from the Pudding to their own personal accounts, via the organization’s credit card machine. Over the next several months, the campus buzzed about the details that began to emerge, as prosecutors alleged that the two had used the stolen money to finance a “lavish lifestyle.”

Police confiscated from Gomes’ dorm room a flat-screen TV, a DJ machine, 91 DVDs and other expensive entertainment equipment which they said had been bought with ill-gotten gains. Police also alleged that stolen money went to pay for Gomes’ drug addiction, expensive clothing for Pomey and an open-bar birthday party that Gomes threw for Pomey at a local restaurant.

News of the scandal spread quickly, making headlines in papers ranging from The New York Times to London’s Daily Telegraph.

Due to the pending felony case, Pomey and Gomes were denied degrees in 2002. After an unsuccessful effort by Pomey to suppress a confession she made to police and to be tried separately from Gomes, both changed their pleas to “guilty” at a September 2002 hearing. Prosecutors sought jail time, while lawyers for the defendants argued that the judge should order pre-trial probation, a step which would have prevented the guilty plea from being entered on their permanent record.

On Oct. 4, the judge split the difference. A guilty plea to the grand larceny charge would be a part of Pomey’s and Gomes’ criminal records, but the two would avoid jail time. Gomes was sentenced to five years probation, Pomey to two.

The final axe fell for Pomey and Gomes that next February, when the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to dismiss the pair. Dismissal is a rare and severe punishment at Harvard. While dismissed students can technically re-enroll, it takes another vote of the Faculty to allow it. Twenty-five students had been dismissed in the 66 years prior to the action against Pomey and Gomes, and only nine were subsequently readmitted.

It is unclear where Pomey and Gomes went after their sentencing.

Gomes could not be reached for comment for this story.

A web advertisement offering services as a baby-sitter was the only clue to Pomey’s whereabouts.

According to the advertisement, Pomey is living in Richmond, Va., in the upscale West End neighborhood. The advertisement also notes that she is good with kids, trained in CPR and life-guarding and available both day and night.

Contact information is listed with an e-mail address at vcu.edu—Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), a 25,000-student private university in Richmond with a focus on the life sciences. Pomey had already completed all of her requirements for an undergraduate degree at Harvard, but it is unclear which of VCU’s 100+ programs Pomey was or is enrolled in.