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Skating on Thinner and Thinner Ice

As More Evidence Is Revealed to Public, Predicaments of Lee and Sword Get Worse

Lee was one of two co-chairs for the 1992 show, while Sword served as treasurer for the 1991 and 1992 shows.

Rachel L. Schultz '93, the other co-chair for the 1992 show, was neither a target of nor implicated in the district attorney's investigation.

Schultz did not return several phone calls.

The Case Against Lee and Sword

Mary Beth D. Cassidy, the assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case, will try to show that the alleged actions of Lee and Sword were not one-time mistakes.

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Indeed, each count against Lee represents a check he allegedly wrote for himself from the Eliot House fund.

The grand jury indicted Lee for a total of 65 checks form the period in between March 13, 1992 and June 9, 1993. One other count covers money Lee allegedly stole "at some point between February 12 and November 25, 1992" indictment records say.

According to the indictments, Lee started off slowly, writing himself three checks for under $250 between March 13 and March 17 of 1992.

In April of that year, the grand jury found, Lee wrote himself six checks for more than $250 and another check for less than $250.

On May 1, he allegedly wrote himself another for less than $250. He allegedly proceeded to make another seven withdrawals that month--each for more than $250.

Lee's alleged withdrawals continued for the next 13 months, as he seems to have written himself at least one check in every month until June 1993.

Indictment reports indicate that Lee never went more than 26 days without writing himself another check for more than $250.

According to the indictments, he had a high of 10 checks in June--nine for more than $250 and one for less than that amount--and a low of one check in December of 1992 and February and April of 1993.

And Cassidy say a review of Lee's personal bank records revealed that the money deposited into Lee's account from the Eliot House Jimmy Fund account was withdrawn by July 1993.

The money was withdrawn as cash and as payments for personal expenses, Cassidy said.

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