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5 ism), and Sandy Williams would always bring along one of his “models” ‘during a night on the town. While the “model” “ was ostensibly Sandy Williams's date, she would inevitably end up with the J-senator. AST > Williarris was a loud champion of Sandy Williams's often bizarre and rare- ly fruitful business schemes and the sen- “ator thought nothing of soliciting in- vestors in these ventures among his friends and associates. Williams, who was granted immunity by the federal Prosecutors in return for his testimony against the senator, was described by the New York “Times” as having had close contacts over the years with ‘‘persons reputedly connected Id. with, the under- me such individual with alleged mob connections with whom both Sen. Williams and Sandy Williams had con- tact was a New Jersey used car dealer named “Tony”? who was described by our source as ‘‘a very fat, loud-talking individual who made a point of never re- 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 compani that he.owned. Our source revealed: looked into those companies with an eye toward possibly purchasing them. They smacked of being organized covers for loan sharking.”” ~ , @ And a fourth factor that again foreshadowed. -the: senator's recent troubles was his involvément with Sandy Williams in a deal that resulted in the sale of Paradise Island to the mob-con- “nected ‘Resorts “Interfiational 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 sell the tropical island to Resorts Inter- national, which quickly turned it into an off-shore gambling haven. 2 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 * to a powerful commit- tee chairman who not long ago was able ‘ith $372,000 in cash to pur- a new home in Georgetown, The ay nae je An interesting sidelight to the current efforts by columnist Jack Anderson to forestall, or at least influence favorably, the upcoming vote'on the expulsion of Sen, Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) came to light just before press time. ‘The SPOTLIGHT éxclusively learned that” there’ is a current battle ‘raging among the stockholders of the now de- funct “Investigator” magazine; whose demise’ was preceded’ by and perhaps ~: ‘even brought on by its virulent attack on Liberty Lobby. Jay J. Armes to forestall the publication of, imilarly nlaméd: magazine --by . Zine devotes ‘A fall page ad in Jack Anderson's now defunct maga: the erstwhile publisher, left, with his then chief invest 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. hom rayhl CHOKING BACK EMOTION Despite the long and” inglorious history, columnist Anderson has gone to _ great lengths 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 in Anderson Continues | Anderson while he remains a stockhold- er, in.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, . {+ When pressed -by Armes’s attorney, the former chief executive officer of the ‘‘Investigator,”’-Bjll Adkins, was com- Pelled to bring into ‘court a copy of the new publication which is due out on or about December 8. Strangely, the maga- substantial portion of its content to a story called ‘Diary of an ‘Abscam Wife,” which is a description of “the trials and tribulations of the current Mrs. Williams and the senator.:“-—-~ pictures ‘and content of the article - compar ly true i Perhe example sion wit was a J. from Ar intoab pathy fc Writt, federal then-up. Ethics colleagu ing to ¢ pare an: that fc (D-N.C torney f: are such | wife as have eve: ture of ‘stump, 1° holding t , Attorn tion-of * Adkins, : said that who wish ‘ Concu: © bate ont has been ; some tim. Thus, ¢ . Rew mage circulated