Tonya Harding met with attorneys after surfacing with her ex-husband Friday, and NBC News said her bodyguard accused her of being involved in the Jan. 6 assault on Olympic figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan.
NBC said Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt, accused Harding of being involved in the "planning and coverup" of the attack on Kerrigan during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit. Eckardt was arrested Thursday.A law enforcement source told NBC there is no warrant for Harding but that she is under "active criminal investigation."
Authorities have said there are no indications Harding, 23, was involved.
Asked about the NBC report that they were investigating Harding, Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney John Bradley said "not at this point."
"We are investigating everything," he said. "So I mean, we are going to be as complete as we can. Whatever you make of that."
Harding's lawyer, Robert Weaver, said: "I really can't speak to what Mr. Eckardt may or may not have said. . . . I do know that there are no charges outstanding. That was confirmed to me an hour ago in a meeting I had in the district attorney's office.
"This continuous reporting by some people that there are charges outstanding needs to stop."
Weaver said Harding was cooperatingwith the district attorney's office.
"She is quite exhausted by all of this," Weaver said. "While she will be making a statement, she's not prepared to do that today."
So far, three people, including Eckardt, Harding's 350-pound body-guard, have been arrested in the Kerrigan case.
Derrick Brian Smith, 29, was arraigned Friday along with Eckardt, 26, on conspiracy charges and will next appear in court Jan. 24. Pleas of not guilty were automatically entered for them.
Smith's nephew, Shane Minoaka Stant, 22, of Chandler, Ariz., surrendered Friday in Phoenix. Jeff Gillooly, Harding's ex-husband, hasn't been charged.
Eckardt's lawyer, W. Mark McKnight, said his client had admitted taking part in the plot to authorities. But he said Eckardt is "not smart enough" to have formulated and carried out the plan.
"He had a deep and profound sense of remorse, and he still carries that sense of remorse," McKnight said. "I believe that sense of remorse began when he watched on national television a beautiful and promising Miss Kerrigan cringing and crying on the floor."
McKnight labeled the report of Harding's involvement "part of a frenzy of speculation" by television.
Harding and Gillooly were seen for the first time since Tuesday when reports of the alleged plot surfaced. They drove past reporters without answering questions after leaving their rural home in Beavercreek, about 20 miles southeast of Portland.
Gillooly allegedly suggested a plan to injure Kerrigan, according to sources quoted in The Oregonian newspaper. His stormy marriage to Harding ended in divorce last August, but they reconciled and resumed living together.
Indictments unsealed Friday said Stant, Eckardt and Smith conspired in late December in Portland to "unlawfully and in-ten-tion-ally cause physical injury to Nancy Kerrigan by means of a dangerous weapon, by striking Nancy Kerrigan in the leg with the dangerous weapon."
Kerrigan was injured when a man hit her on the leg with a metal rod, forcing her to withdraw from the championships - an Olympic qualifying event - later won by Harding. Both were named to the U.S. Olympic team headed for the Winter Games in Norway next month.
During a news conference Friday outside her Massachusetts home, Kerrigan refused to answer questions about arrests in the case.