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. ism), and Sandy Wil Id always” - bring along one of his “models?” ‘during was ostensibly Sandy Williams’s date, - ” senator. ©: _ Williams was a loud champion of: Sandy Williams's often bizarre and 1 Tare-— "ator thought” nothing of soliciting in- vestors in these ventures among his friends and associates. Williams, who ‘was granted immunity by the federal the lunder- " reputedly connected wit “world, 7. : -mob connections with whom both Sen. our source as ‘‘a very fat, loud-talking vealing his last name.’ Sen. Williams, at - One point some years ago, was helping Tony find buyers for a String of four New Jersey personal finance companies that he owned. Our source revealed: “I - looked into those companies with an eye - smacked of being organized. covers s for loan sharking.”* ..-- foreshadowed. -the- senator’s recent troubles was his involvement with Sandy . Williams in a deal that resulted in the- sale of Paradise Island to the mob-con- : “nected” ‘Resorts ‘Interfational gambling . corporation. When The SPOTLIGHT ° contacted Williams's office over a year -- ago for comment on this transaction, an- _ aide would say only that there would be - . ‘no comment” on the deal that saw _ Williams's friend Huntington Hartford | national, which quickly turned i it into an off-shore gambling haven. : These incidents are only | a few of the ¢ more blatant ways in which “Pete” Williams wheeled and dealed his way from his self-styled role as the “poor” man’s senator," to a powerful commit-_ tee chairman who not long ago was able” . tocome up with $372,000 in cash to pur- chase a new home i in Georgetown. The An interesting delight to the current efforts by columnist Jack Anderson to forestall, or at least influence favorably, the upcoming vote’ on the expulsion of ta light just before Press time. The SPOTLIGHT: “exclusively | learned that’ there’ is'a current battle ‘raging’ ‘even brought on aby i its virulent attack on : ought by “‘Investigator’’: stockholder Jay J. Armes to forestall the publication f ‘a’-similarly” famed" magazine ~ ’.-.a night on the town. While the “*model’* - _ she would inevitably end hed with the : ly fruitful business schemes and the sen- . - prosecutors in return for his testimony - "against the senator, was described by the - ’ New York “Times” as ‘having had close -. --contacts over thé years with’ **persons . @ One stich individual with alleged Williams and Sandy Williams had con-. ‘tact’ was a New Jersey used car dealer | " named “Tony” who was described by - individual who made a point of never re- . toward possibly purchasing them. They | @ And a fourth “factor that n- 4 a agai “A fall p page ad in Jack Anderson’ ‘8 Dow de “the erstwhile publisher, | left, with his then chief invest sell the tropical island to Resorts Inter- — Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) came ~ penane ibe siSekholders of ths now de- “pelled to bring into court a copy of the “demise was preceded by and perhaps ” ‘about December 8. Strangely, the maga- -zine devotes a substantial portion of its content to a story called “Diary of an Abscam Wife,’” which is a description of 7 “the trials and tribulations of the current’: “Mrs, Williams and the senator.“ - fhe pletutes‘ ‘and content nt Of the article - tack Andersen, Publisher fanet n maga: © “luxurious. ‘and ‘smartly “decorated resi-' dence was added to other properties that included a luxury condominium in the Caribbean and properties in. southwest Washington that had been acquired by Mrs, Williams prior to her marriage | to” the senator. ~ CHOKING BACK EMOTION * Despite the long and inglorious history, columnist Anderson has goneto— .. great tengths to make Pete Williams into the number one victim of Abscam. Col- umn after column has concentrated on. _the raw deal handed to New Jersey’s “senior senator by the vicious and vindic- tive feds out to get a liberal Kennedy Democrat, This is an ‘argument that is - true in the case of the six congress- men. whom Anderson defends only i in “Anderson while he remains a ‘stockhold- erin. the old. “Investigator,” it was ascertained that an ‘anonymous friend” of Anderson ‘had to put up $50,000 to publish and circulate the first - issue of the. “new’’ riagazine, .: 2". When pressed - ‘by Armes’s attorney, he former chief executive officer of the “investigator, ”*-Bill Adkins, was com- new publication which is due out on or compar. ly true i * Perhe “exampic sion wit was a Ji: from A: into a b: pathy fc Writt. federal : then-up. Ethics € colleagu ing to g Pare an’ “that fc (D-N.C. : torney fi “aes such ’ wife as : have eve: - ture of = stump, 1: Kolding f . Attorn ' tion of - Adkins, :' said thar * ‘who wish ° _ Coneu: : “bate ont} _ has been ; some time : Thus, t new mage ‘Circulated .