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According to the government, Hunter had set up a real estate company for Frank M. Sargent Jr., a 26-year-old man with a previous conviction for drug dealing, whom the government alleged was selling cocaine out of his home in nearby Windsor, Vt. The drug profits allegedly were being siphoned into Sargent's fledgling company, Connecticut Realty Trust, to buy run-down properties and refurbish them, according to the affidavit. "It is clear. . . that Sargent and Hunter had worked together to launder Sargent's money and that they used CRT for that purpose," James Bradley, special agent for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, said in the affidavit.