He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. He was later indicted along with two other trustees serving on that Teamsters Union fund. Hoffa had openly vowed to retake control of the union and it's pension fund by running for IBT President in 1976. On Dec. 15 of that year, he was convicted along with Teamsters Union President Roy Williams, former Chicago Police Officer and Teamsters pension fund trustee Thomas O'Malley, former Teamsters pension fund trustee Andrew Amos Massa, and Chicago Outfit figure Joey "The Clown" Lombardo of trying to bribe U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nevada) so that Cannon would get a trucking deregulation bill blocked. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. The Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip and the Jersey Shore, along with exclusive real estate deals like the Rancho La Costa Golf Resort in Southern California were built from it's extensive reserves of capital. Bullets were flying through union office buildings, people were seriously assaulted, and even a yacht was blown to bits by means of a mysterious explosion. As a trustee of the IBT Pension Fund it was considered a conflict of interests by some of the members ofthe U.S. Congress. Shortly after these events,Murphy jumped ship as a trustee on the pension fund and 11 more trustees resigned under pressure from possible investigations. In 1959, Dorfman became the subject of an investigation by the McClellan Committee regarding the excessive fees paid by the Teamsters to Dorfman's company. He was in on most of the details otherwise kept secret by those wieldingtheirinfluence on the movement of capital andall the various means used by them to do it. Over a short time thisinsurance business, through JRH along withsome of his mentors and advisers, developed into a much larger enterprise. In fact one U.S. Congressional document includes an excerpt from the press using the phrase depicting Allen Dorfman as one person being found oftenin "Hoffa's shadow". The "Test Fleet" prosecution brought against Hoffa by the Justice Department, then headed by US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy resulted in a hung jury in December 1962. )[8][9][10], In 1979, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched "Operation Pendorf" (for penetration of Allen Dorfman). Celebrities such as Barry Manilow and Robert Flack stayed at the hotel over the years. (Lombardo was convicted of Seifert's murder in 2007 as a result of Operation Family Secrets. A maintenance worker found Lewis's body, sprawled facedown behind his desk, wearing a business suit, arms extended beyond his head, his wrists handcuffed. On January 24, decedent's estate was opened for probate in the circuit court of Lake County and letters of office issued to his sons, James and David Dorfman, as executors. Dorfman, along with other Hoffa allies, was investigated and charged with jury tampering. The depiction of Allen Dorfman withinthe " Irishman" movie , does not line upwith evidence we discovered from credible sources. American businessman. Of all the factors involved to provide a primary motive for their deathsarebest linked to this fund and the personal knowledge of those who profited illegally from it. "Loans" to Crime figures in LCN families were no exception and some generouspolitical contributions were also made. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1923 to a working class family and attended Marshall High School in Chicago, Illinois. Meanwhile, the Purple Hyatt remained in operation for many years afterward though it changed hands to become a Radisson and a Ramada in the 1990s, and finally changed names simply to the Purple Hotel in 2004. As of this time we don't know any of the details presented by all the published experts as being absolute fact to lay responsibility on any of a long list of suspects. The pension fund wants to disassociate itself from Allen Dorfman, who was convicted last year of attempting to bribe a senator and was killed gangland-style in January. "Gunned down - seven shots to the head in broad daylight at noontime, when people were frequenting the hotel," Drummond said. At the time he was on the board trustees of the pension fund along with Dorfman and Fitzsimmons. In contrast, Dorfman was regarded as a Hoffa suspect. Allen Melnick Dorfman (Jan. 6, 1923-Jan. 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. All the while Dorfman was besieged by investigations leading to a possible 55 year prison sentence. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. . The contract soon extended to sickness and accident insurance. Cheers, James. Documentationfrom the DOJ, U.S. Congress, FBI, IRS and those who really knew him, provide a different picture. Some of this information was made public in Time Magazine in 1975 just prior to JRH disappearance. Many of these loans were real estate loans to associates of high-ranking Teamster members or to organized crime connected casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. known as the Jack-O-Lantern Lodge, or JOLL property. It became known as the mob's "piggy bank". Prosecutors prepare closing arguments in Alex Murdaugh murder trial. His main office told those who attemptingto contact him that he could not be reached because he was "out of town". In the corruption trials of political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko in 2008 and Springfield powerbroker William Cellini in 2011 businessman, political fixer, and admitted scam artist Stuart Levine testified that he attended all-night sex parties loaded with drugs such as crystal meth and ketamine at the hotel. He was with longtime friend Irwin Weiner, a known associate of many Chicago mob figures. The transaction came at apersonal cost to him. He was from Chicago, a racketeers mobster, involved with the Waste Handler's Union. Nearly all of Meridian-America moved out of the building last February as part of a tentative agreement stipulating Amalgamated would be sold to the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Fund. DORFMAN Allen B. Dorfman, 72, of Saco, ME passed away on Monday, April 30, 2018, at Seal Rock Healthcare in Saco. Another person connected to Dorfman and to Hoffa wasbusiness CEO, At the time he was on the board trustees of the pension fund along with Dorfman and Fitzsimmons. Of all the factors involved to provide a primary motive for their deathsarebest linked to this fund and the personal knowledge of those who profited illegally from it. Dorfman had taken some lessons from the CEOs and attorneys setting up the clandestine Test Fleet company and went into business with JRH in not only the JOLL property but also the Whispering Pine Ranch camp and the North Western Oil Company. Earlier Dorfman himself threw in with the anti Hoffa people. Paul included his son Allen with the workings of the IBT. It was John Murphy's Gateway Transportation that was named in the Hoffex Memo as the means to transfer Hoffa's body to his hidden burial site. Weiner, a former bail bondsman from Niles who also had mob ties and who died in 1996, was not injured. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with the Chicago Outfit. In December 1982, after four days of deliberations, the jury found Lombardo, Dorfman, Williams, and two others guilty on 11 counts of bribery, fraud, and con-spiracy. Jake Hoffman as Allen Dorfman: An insurance man who helps Jimmy with loans. The FBI installed hidden microphones in the office of Dorfman's insurance agency. If the reports of these other meetings actually happened, it was not enough to deter the FBI from the direction they chose to go with this case months later when they completed the Hoffex Memo. March 1 (UPI) -- Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is joining the University of Virginia's Center for Politics as a professor through the coming fall semester. It was demolished in August 2013, and a new development is under construction there today. First of all Allen Dorfman was not just anumber crunching, mundane,low profile, bookworm. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. "Of all of the wonderful things that happened here and the fine families that had entertainment here, and weddings, and bar mitzvahs, and you name it they remember the Dorfman issue, and Levine, and everything else that's bad," Turry told the late CBS 2 reporter Mike Parker in 2013. Dorfman, based mostly in Chicago, was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters' leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970. What was in Dorfmans book found on body? Immediately afterward Mr. Hopps ran to the U.S. Government for help. The film contains many events of the history of JRH, but it takes liberties with the facts included in these events. Without Hoffa aligned with Dorfman they had easier accessto raid the pension fund cookie jar. All of these things seem tohave contributed in setting the stage for Hoffas eventual disappearance in 1975. It is odd that Murphy shows up the next year in the White House with already mentioned Trucking IndustrialistWalter F. Careyto supposedly discuss the future of the trucking industrywith President Gerald Ford. Among the loans he later made was a $160 million loan to Argent Corporation, which owned a group of casinos, including the Stardust Resort & Casino. Allen Dorfman was indicted along with Hoffa as a co conspirator. He wasa forceful leader and influentialplayer when it came to orchestratingthe money coming out of the IBT Pension Fund. Many researchers feel JRH was faced with a choicewhether he should exchange information with the Church Committee in order to gain leverage in his pursuit to reestablishcontrol of IBT or retire all together from labor union causes. First published on January 16, 2023 / 11:49 PM. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. And while the crime remains unsolved, Dorfman's life and demise have long since made their way into pop culture. Another person connected to Dorfman and to Hoffa wasbusiness CEOJohn Murphy of Gateway Transportation. (Kemler) Dorfman.. After Hoffa went to prison in 1967, Dorfman took control of the Central States Pension fund. We think we are on target with Dorfman and we believe Murphy and others like him should have received a closer look since they shared asimilar background connection with Jimmy Hoffa. Some of these same folks were at the Fitzsimmons Tournament in 1974. In 1979, the FBI installed hidden microphones in the office of Dorfmans insurance agency. "But they had to get him when they could, before he went to California and started spilling the beans.". Amalgamated Insurance Company Inc., once headed by Allen Dorfman, is being run by the fund and also occupies space in the building. This opinion is shared by the "follow the money motive" often used by investigators to solve felonious crimes slated for prosecution. The owners of Commercial Carriers (Walter F. Carey and his partner Bertram B. Beveridge) did this through some of their attorneys and accountants as a mutual means of protection and profit. He made himselfunavailable to serve with a subpoena. JRH went to trial over this arrangement and during the trial attempted to bribe some of the jurors. It appears JRH'slong time friend and associate Allen Dorfman, with other formerloyalists, began to turn against him. Oil tanks will be kept full to enable emergency use of the diesel engines which will remain in place although disconnected. 1965: Mayor-elect Wlater Reasor Jr. and Eastern Illinois University president have urged to move the junk yards west of Charleston city limits. Interest in Allan Dorfman picked up after the trials by not only the FBI but also the Internal Revenue Service. JRH went to trial over this arrangement and during the trial attempted to bribe some of the jurors. Modern "hoffaologists" have criticized the production because of some of the portrayals of who may have killed Hoffa and how they did it. The funds now under Dorfman's company made up 90% of the branch companys contracts. [5] This prosecution resulted in his conviction, and Allen Dorfman was sentenced to one year in federal prison. He got probation instead of prison time. Once again in 1974 Allen Dorfman was indicted for loans made to a private plastics manufacturing company in New Mexico to the tune of $ 1.4 million. A native of. Even so, the way Murphywas treatedby the authorities was much different from how Dorfman was dealt with. If there is a single person on the list of names under suspicion with the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa (JRH) it might be Allen Dorfman. Edited October 3, 2007 by James Richards. Inscription. He taught physical education and served in the Marine Corps before joining up with the various projects with Jimmy Hoffa. He was in on most of the details otherwise kept secret by those wieldingtheirinfluence on the movement of capital andall the various means used by them to do it. Allen Dorfman, who died in a hail of bullets in Chicago, was a financier for the Teamsters Union, a union with a long history of links to organized crime. Matheson was arrested in Chicago the day after the indictment. "Dorfman himself was awaiting sentencing in federal court, but apparently, someone had already passed sentence on Allen Dorfman," the late CBS 2 reporter Phil Walters said in his report on the murder. As Dorfman passed between two cars, the killers came up from behind. Dorfmans rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters ranks, along with spectacular growth in the unions pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfmans administration. . It was Allen Dorfman and JRH that essentially built this fund along with advice from certain successfulIndustrialists to make it profitable. He died Wednesday. Allen Dorfman was also a participant and had in the past been golfing with suspects Rolland McMaster and Anthony Provenzano, along with others associated with the demise of Jimmy Hoffa. Some of them launched a effort to discredit the movie on that basis as well as some other references to the murdersof La Cosa Nostra ("LCN") associates like Joe Gallo or Salvatore Briguglio. The major factor with Allen Dorfman is through his efforts and his deals with the IBT expansion. Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe and click the Notification button for more videos! For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. In 1970 the Dorfmans were indicted again for embezzling from the IBT Pension Fund. It becameobvious to us, it would not be good for a person's health to get on the wrong side of Allen Dorfman. He was to be sentenced in 1983 for attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon but he was murdered. That remains a mystery. The IBT Central States Pension Fund was soon to be changed forever. They had to take the risks of doing the hit in public like that, because they normally would have never have done that," Drummond said. Dorfman was on a first-name basis with powerful politicians, union bigwigs, and Hollywood stars but was also tied up with organized crime figures. John Murphy was seen a couple of months after Hoffa disappeared golfing with ex President Richard Nixon and Fitzsimmons. Alan Dorfman was the mob's anointed king atop the Union Bank that built Las Vegas. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 22, 1946, a son of Haiman and Nettie (Tr Documentationfrom the DOJ, U.S. Congress, FBI, IRS and those who really knew him, provide a different picture. Modern "hoffaologists" have criticized the production because of some of the portrayals of who may have killed Hoffa and how they did it. It appears as if, the interested parties that had been poised against JRH reestablishing control of IBT, were found together at this golf course. Under the tentative agreement, the Dorfman family and some other top officials of Meridian agreed not to return to the building. Those doing so, promised continued cooperation with Dorfman and stopped supporting Hoffa for trying to come back into running the IBT union affairs. With Colin Tierney, G. Robert Blakey, Howard Cannon, Kent Clifford. A booster pump takes care of pressure in case of fires. The name of that company was Commercial Carriers. After WW II, he became friends with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa and rose in the ranks of both the Teamster's Union and the Chicago Organized Crime family. We really don't know the half of it. Dorfman was only 60 years old. This event seems to tie Dorfman and the other major players and groups together before and after the JRH disappearance. Allen Melnick Dorfman (Jan. 6, 1923-Jan. 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. One of the two trustees indicted was Albert Matheson of Bloomfield, Michigan. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit and raised by his Step Father Paul Red Dorfman in Chicago. He was later indicted along with two other trustees serving on that Teamsters Union, fund. He had served nine months in prison in the early 1970s for taking a $55,000 kickback on a Teamsters pension fund loan, and he was tried on a fraud charge in 1975 but was acquitted in that case. Allen B. Dorfman, 72, of Saco, passed away on Monday, April 30, 2018, at Seal Rock Healthcare in Saco. However, Dorfman was acquitted in the case. Rather, the Federal Grand Jury in Detroit. Street Cambridge, / we came out for breakfast croissants right across the street, Nov- / ember 8, 1986.; on verso, by artist, lower center in graphite: beloved . [2], In 1949, Allen Dorfman formed the Union Insurance Agency and obtained a contract to provide health and welfare insurance for the Teamsters Central States union. 1965: An auto graveyard near Charleston is nestled between rolling hills along scenic Illinois 16. Then, three days before his sentencing, on January 20, 1983, Allen Dorfman was gunned down in Lincolnwood, IL. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 22, 1946, a son of Haiman and Nettie (Traiger) Dorfman. There simply is not enough evidence to pin a murder wrap on one specific person. It is, surmised by some researchers, that there were a few people involved with the U.S. Government, plus the mob, along with many powerful business CEOs whodid not want to see JRH make a come back.. After Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975, the FBI spent a huge effort to investigate the same kind of businesses in the Detroit area based on a "red herring" ruse tip that his body was destroyed in a local meat rendering establishment including the Market Vending Company owned by Hoffex suspectsRaffaele "Jimmy" Quasarano and Pete "Buzzie" Vitale. Until January 1983, when Dorfman was shot dead in the parking lot of the Purple Hotel, three days before he was . Allen Dorfman was the step-son of a Chicago gangster named Red Dorfman. Allen Dorfman was indicted along with Hoffa as a co conspirator. Who was Richard Dorfman and what did he do? Many of the events aretrue , however, the script writers basing their work on the publication by Charles Brandt : "I Heard You Paint Houses", filled in the gaps with equally unsubstantiated information. He also received an Associate's Degree from Northeastern University. Little Known Characters in America: Allen Dorfman. The senior Dorfman struck a deal with Jimmy Hoffa, then head of the Teamsters Union in Michigan. With Frank Fitzsimmons at the helm, the LCN and others had benefited by Hoffa staying out of the union. We realize many of these already suspected places were searched for JRH's physical remains and these businesses were under surveillance before, during, and after Hoffa vanished due to the intense violence preceding the Hoffa event in the city of Detroit. March 1 (UPI) -- A trio of engineers broke a Guinness World Record when they created and threw a paper airplane that flew a distance of 289 feet and 9 inches. The decision caused a great uproar within the union. Hecould get things done quietlywhen he had to, but the record shows he knew how to handle himself well in situations requiring a bolder approach. It is odd that Murphy shows up the next year in the White House with already mentioned Trucking IndustrialistWalter F. Careyto supposedly discuss the future of the trucking industrywith President Gerald Ford. Frank Fitzsimmons took over the IBT as a proxy for Hoffa. March 1 (UPI) -- Officials unsealed an indictment Wednesday against the chairman and CEO of publicly traded healthcare company Ontrak Inc., court documents show. The longtime Boca Raton resident was 90. Both Paul and Allen Dorfman were indicted but later acquittedon jury tampering charges similar to Test Fleet by a Federal Grand Jury in San Francisco for the allegedextortion of well known insurance broker. There was concern, Drummond said, that "this guy was going to spill his beans. NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Mission scheduled to launch after delay. Dorfman, sentenced to spend the rest. In 1963, Dorfman was indicted in the same Chattanooga, Tennessee jury-fixing case that sent Hoffa to prison. Camillus Robinson explains how Allen Dorfman became embroiled in a scheme with Kansas City Teamster Roy Williams and Outfit Capo Joey "The Clown" Lombardo to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon. This article lists the episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, an American situation comedy television series that ran for eight seasons (1950-58) on CBS.The show did not become weekly until the third season. We think we are on target with Dorfman and we believe Murphy and others like him should have received a closer look since they shared asimilar background connection with Jimmy Hoffa. In 1939 Paul took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the "AFL" American Federation of Labor. In the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie "Casino," Alan King played a character named Andy Stone who was based on Dorfman. By 1982, the IBT Pension Fund trustees had to sign a consent decree with the Department of Labor which limited it's independence and transferred money management decisions to external investment firms. The Jack O'Lantern Lodge, near Eagle River, was owned by Allen Dorfman and the Teamsters. Murphy's Gateways headquarters were always in LaCrosse, Wisconsinand always under the control of the Murphy family. Allen Dorfman (January 6, 1923, Detroit, Michigan - January 20, 1983 Lincolnwood, Illinois) was an insurance agency owner, and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. We know there were other CEOs noted as being big into golf course capitalism back in the day. As a result he became a DOJ "consultant" providing testimony of what kind of person Allen Dorfman really was when it came to power and the control of vast amounts of money. He was the stepson of Paul "Red" Dorfman, who was head of the Chicago Waste Handler's Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit. A close associate of longtime Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with the Chicago Outfit, Alan Dorfman embezzled millions for the mob and himself until he was violently murdered in 1983. "It requires an effort on Dorfman similarto the effort on Hoffa". The infamy of the hotel disappointed former Lincolnwood Mayor Jerry Turry. Allen, himself, became a part of the IBT expansion in 1949 by establishing the Union Insurance Agency with his mother for Michigan Teamsters. The fund would never have grown to it's enormous capacity if it did not have Hoffaat the helm along with Dorfman's savvy. [11] Dorfman was subsequently convicted in December 1982, along with Teamsters' president Roy Lee Williams and Chicago Outfit enforcer Joseph Lombardo, for conspiring to bribe Howard Cannon, the Democratic Senator from Nevada. (Examples of this tact are seen with an unsubstantiated meeting of IBTs Frank Fitzsimmons with LCNs Vitale and Quasarano before the disappearance and a reportedmeeting involving the same two mobsters with a Genovese family front man Fat Tony Salerno, afterward).
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