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Sun. 12-5 i tage's wife in February 1980. and it apparently was controlled by Caruana whom FBI agents tied closely to the late Raymond L. S. Patrtarca, who headed organized crime in New England.

International Premium Investments lent the Nottages $400,000 in a deal involving Caruana and the 100-room former Islander Hotel in Freeport. Grand Bahamas in 1980. Investigators were told that the money was sent by Caruana through his associate, Larry Martin of Millbrook lane. Wakefield, who was found shot in the head in June 1982. His body was placed in a sleeping bag and left in the trunk of a car in Somerville.

The murder is unsolved. Police said Martin and Caruana were involved in operation of Precious Metals Buying Services a Wakefield firm that Martin organized March 12, 1980. Associates of Caruana who became government witnesses alleged that Martin accompanied Caruana on drug-smuggling trips. Kendal Nottage has been quoted as saying that while he was looking for capital to purchase the hotel, his wife suggested that the money be sought from International Premium Invest-' ments, which she formed for an unidentified client in Boston a client believed by the investigat-, ing commission to be Caruana. Mrs.

Nottage, who is listed as director and secretary of Interna-; tional Premium Investments, reportedly claimed she did not know, the individual who furnished the $400,000. The commission obtained documents showing that the Nottages and International Premium Investments agreed to split the hotel's profits. Arnold J. Katz, formerly of Worcester and Framingham, an admitted drug dealer who was to be the principal witness against Caruana if Caruana had not fled before trial, told investigators that in 1980 Caruana told him during a plane trip from Massachusetts to Fort Lauderdale that he planned to spend $1 million on the purchase of a hotel in the Bahamas. Later, Katz told investigators, he, Caruana and Martin stayed at a Freeport hotel which Caruana said he owned.

Katz quoted Car- uana as saying that he bought the hotel with the assistance of a minister in the Bahamian er in South Portland. In August 1980 he was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to making a false statement in a loan application in connection with his auto business. The FBI investigation that led to Car-delli's indictment involved several cars owned by a Boston leasing firm operated by Caruana. Cardelli, interviewed by The Boston Globe, questioned the $565,000 mentioned in the recorded transactions with Nottage's firm but declined to discuss the business deals, saying. "I want to stay as far away as possible from that." "Anything I ever did was legitimate." Cardelli said.

He would not say how the business relationship between him and the Nottage firm developed. He said his former attorney. Henry Steinfeld of Portland, could have shed some light on the matter but he died last spring. As for Cardelli's business connections with Caruana. which reportedly date back at least 15 years, he said he has not seen Caruana for "quite some time." Mrs.

Nottage did not respond to efforts by telephone to speak with her. She and her husband were recently quoted as saying in Nassau that they did not know Caruana and only heard about him recently, although law enforcement sources said the private telephone number of the Nottages was found in a book seized from Caruana when he was arrested last Nov. 28 by a federal drug agent. Caruana's address book noted the telephone numbers next to the names "Rubie" and "Ken." Investigators later traced the numbers to the Nottages. Edmund M.

Hurley of Boston, a lawyer reported to have represented the Nottages in this country, declined to comment on the case. The Atlas Company mortgages involved Cardelli's former home at 20 Salt Spray lane in Cape Elizabeth which was sold in August ,1981, and is valued at $240,700 by the Town of Cape Elizabeth. Atlas Company still owns two vacant lots across the street from Cardelli's former oceanfront home, according to town records. Five real estate transactions, in which Atlas Company claimed to have given $565,500 in mortgages since discharged, were recorded on Sept.2, 1980. The deals also involved property owned by By Richard J.

Connolly Globe Staff A company headed by the wife of a Bahamian cabinet minister who was one of the subjects of a recent drug-corruption investigation in Nassau gave $565,000 in mortgage money to firms involving a Maine auto dealer. The auto dealer is a former business associate of Salvatore Michael Caruana of Peabody. a reputed organized crime figure and accused drug dealer. Records in the Cumberland County Registry of Deeds in Portland. Maine show that the real estate transactions involved Atlas Company Ltd.

of Nassau and several firms in which car dealer Stephen D. Cardelli has been a major figure. Cardelli has been described by law enforcement officials as a former close friend and business associate of Caruana. a fugitive who defaulted at his trial in Boston last April on charges that he masterminded a multimillion-dollar international drug operation. Car-uana's home is on Jayne circle in West Peabody.

Registry of Deeds records identify the president of Atlas Company as Rubie M. Nottage, whose husband. Kendal W. Nottage. is a Bahamian cabinet minister and member of a law firm in which his wife is a lawyer.

A Royal Commission of Inquiry has held hearings over the past eight months and investigated allegations that Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, a close friend of Kendal Nottage. and other officials, accepted payoffs from drug smugglers. There have been no formal charges against any of those named in testimony. The commission, which is preparing its report, was informed that Caruana apparently controlled a firm that loaned $400,000 to Nottage and his wife in a hotel deal. The deal also involved a Wakefield man who was murdered in underworld fashion and whose body was stuffed in the trunk of a car in Somerville two years ago.

There has been no indication that Cardelli was involved in any way with Caruana's underworld activities, or that he had any association with the Nottages except through the real estate transactions on dates between Sept. 2, 1980. and Dec. 9, 1983. Cardelli, 44, is a used-car deal THE1984 PACESETTER EMPLOYEE CAMPAIGNS, ACKERLEY COMMUNICATIONS, ALPHA INDUSTRIES AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY BANK OF NEW STATE HEALTH CARETHE BEACON BOSTON COMPANYCAMBRIDGE PLATING COMPANYCAMBRIDGE FAMILY YMCA CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES OF LYNNCOCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTHCENTRAL OFFICE DEPARTMENT OFPUSLIC HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH SERVICESDEPARTMENT OF REVENUECUMBERLAND FARMS, INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGSDUN-FEY'S PAHKER HOUSEFEDERAL DISTILLERSGENERAL DYNAMICSQUIHCY SHIPBUILDING DIVISION, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYTHE GILLETTE COMPANYHASTINGS SONS-DAILY EVENING ITEMLYNNKOTEL MERIDIENKOWARD JOHNSON COMPANYHU3 MAIL ADVERTISINGKEYSTONE MASSACHUSETTS AIRPORT HILTON INNMASSACHUSETTS CEREBRAL PALSY OF THE SOUTH SHOREMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDRENMERKERT ENTERPRISESMER RIM AN DIVISION OF LITTON iTABROOK WEEDENMULTISANK FINANCIAL CORPORATIONSECURITY NATIONAL BAKXSHAWMUT BANK OF BOSTONTRANSCRIPT NEWSPAPERSUNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS CAYWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS THANKS.

YOU GOT US in THE RIGHT BltlECTSOn. sUnttedW is. SALVATORE CARUANA Reputed crime figure Professional Leasing Inc.nd Theresa's House Inc. State corporation records on file in Augusta show that Cardelli was president, treasurer and director of Professional Leasing, which was incorporated In 1965 to purchase, lease and mortgage property. Theresa's House Inc.

was involved in the construction and sale of houses. Cardelli has acted on behalf of the firm in real estate transactions on file at the Portland Registry of Deeds. Kendal Nottage is a political protege of Prime Minister Pindling, who has headed the Bahamian government for 17 years. The Royal Commission of Inquiry was appointed by Pindling after NBC news reported last Sept. 5 that Pindling and his associates were paid $100,000 a month in bribes by Robert Vesco to protect a drug-smuggling operation headed by the fugitive financier.

Timothy Minnig, a self-described associate of Caruana in an alleged marijuana-smuggling operation, testified before the commission that he withdrew $100,000 from a Nassau bank in 1978 and handed it to Vesco who gave it to Pindling. Minnig quoted Vesco as saying he paid $100,000 a month to Pindling so he could remain in the Bahamas as a fugitive from the United States. Pindling has denied the allegations against him and has contended that the United States is attempting to discredit him. Investigators in Nassau reportedly were told that one particular company, International Premium Investments, was formed by Not On Exxon Motor Oil Protect your engine with Exxon Unifloor Exxon Extramotor oils and we'll send you back a cash rebate. Buy twelve one-quart cans and youll get $3.60 back.

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