Allen Melnick Dorfman [2] (January 6, 1923 - January 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. As Dorfman passed between two cars, the killers came up from behind. He died Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal, Apr 27, 1972, "DeAngeles among three acquitted by U. S. jury", "Joey 'the Clown' Lombardo Sentenced to Life" February 2, 2009. March 1 (UPI) -- The companies associated with two shipping vessels will pay a settlement of $96.5 million to Amplify Energy over a 2021 oil spill off the coast of Southern California. It became known as the mob's "piggy bank". He had just finished a transaction at the First National Bank of Lincolnwood with his friend, Irwin Weiner, and they were going to lunch at Tessy's the restaurant at the Purple Hyatt, formally named the Hyatt House Hotel, at 4500 W. Touhy Ave. at the intersection with Lincoln Avenue. Allen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1923 to a working-class Jewish family, the son or stepson of Paul J. Posted October 3, 2007. The major factor with Allen Dorfman is through his efforts and his deals with the IBT expansion. Edited October 3, 2007 by James Richards. 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. All the while Dorfman was besieged by investigations leading to a possible 55 year prison sentence. Allen, himself, became a part of the IBT expansion in 1949 by establishing the Union Insurance Agency with his mother for Michigan Teamsters. It was Allen Dorfman and JRH that essentially built this fund along with advice from certain successfulIndustrialists to make it profitable. 1988: Teen night fills the floor at E.L. Krackers. "But they had to get him when they could, before he went to California and started spilling the beans.". Bugsy Siegel, Allen Dorfman, Carl Thomas, Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo and Gus Greenbaum are to casino-era Las Vegas what Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and John Hancock are to revolutionary . "In my opinion, other than the fact of the Sam Giancana murder in 1975, it probably is the biggest mystery of any organized crime hit we've had in Chicago," said Drummond, now retired. Allen Dorfman was investigated in the McClellan hearings. . Federal prosecutors said Dorfman and Lombardo conspired to extort $800,000 from Kendler. 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. threatened him by saying he would "cut a new hole in his head" "put him in a concrete overcoat" and cause harm to Hopp's Grand children. He graduated from Boston English High School, class of 1964. One other aspect noted when it comes to the Dorfman's and JRH mysteryis they becamesome of the early pioneers with the waste management and meat rendering businesses especially in Chicago. looking into the JRH disappearance, summoned Murphys subordinates. 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. Nixon was making his first public appearance since his resignation connected to "Watergate" and also since the mysterious Hoffa disappearance. known as the Jack-O-Lantern Lodge, or JOLL property. took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the AFL American Federation of Labor. 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. "Red" Dorfman (1901-1971) and Rose Ritman (1907-2003). 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. All of these things seem tohave contributed in setting the stage for Hoffas eventual disappearance in 1975. 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. On Monday night, CBS 2's Chris Tye took a closer look at the still-unanswered questions in Dorfman's murder. He was with longtime friend Irwin Weiner, a known associate of many Chicago mob figures. Allen Dorfman owned luxury home on that golf course and participated in the event. This incident was only the tip of the iceberg. On October 9, 1975, just over 2 months later the annual Frank Fitzsimmons Golf Tournament at the LaCosta Resort, we have a group of major Hoffa suspects together with ex U.S. President Richard Nixon. The water comes from deep wells. Some of this information was made public in Time Magazine in 1975 just prior to JRH disappearance. Later in 1972, Fitzsimmons took full control of IBT. Dorfman, along with other Hoffa allies, was investigated and charged with jury tampering. For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. 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. Allen, himself, became a part of the IBT expansion in 1949 by establishing the Union Insurance Agency with his mother for Michigan Teamsters. Those doing so, promised continued cooperation with Dorfman and stopped supporting Hoffa for trying to come back into running the IBT union affairs. Allen Dorfman (January 6, 1923 January 20, 1983) was an insurance agency owner, and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. The transaction came at apersonal cost to him. A professional hit was suspected due to his desire to turn over Hoffa and Pension Fund crime evidence to reduce his sentence. Certain alleged meetings coming from rumors and questionable sources seemed to have gotten more publicity than the indisputable meeting having taken place at the La Costa Golf course. Test Fleet was set up for Hoffa and Owen Brennan in their wives maiden namesby a large trucking company from Flint, Michigan. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1923 to a working class family and attended Marshall High School in Chicago, Illinois. So we learned, in that instance, Allen Dorfman used words right out of the "mobster playbook" to put fear into the man. Some of these same folks were at the Fitzsimmons Tournament in 1974. Dorfman was also indicted in San Francisco a week before he was gunned down on charges of attempting to loot the funds of a labor union there. Defendant-appellant David Alan Dorfman, P.L.L.C., a law firm operating as a professional limited liability company ("the P.L.L.C."), and individual defendant-appellant David Alan Dorfman, an attorney and the sole member of the P.L.L.C. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. 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. With Frank Fitzsimmons at the helm, the LCN and others had benefited by Hoffa staying out of the union. He is also the son of Hollywood star Dustin Hoffman. 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. Some members looked at itas a violation of the "ERISA" act of 1974. 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. UPI Archives Allen Dorfman, who died in a hail of bullets 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. Judging from the style of the slaying, the killers who pumped eight bullets into Dorfmans head Thursday were probably hired assassins from out of town, Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek said. In fact one U.S. Congressional document includes an excerpt from the press using the phrase, His activities along with his step father and his mother can be traced back to Hoffa's transactions with the major power brokers in the trucking industry and with Hoffa's introduction to many of the movers and shakers belonging to organized crime. Murphy himselfgot a pass. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with the Chicago Outfit. Some theorize it was the publishing of the LCN leaderships names involved with these covert operations that also led to a motive to take Hoffa out of the picture permanently. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. 1965: Mayor-elect Wlater Reasor Jr. and Eastern Illinois University president have urged to move the junk yards west of Charleston city limits. The book reportedly contains names of sports celebrities, entertainers, mobsters, labor leaders and city officials, including some high-ranking police department employees. Dorfman was not only empowered by Hoffa, he also managed to align himself with organizedcrime leaders through out the country. One of the two trustees indicted was Albert Matheson of Bloomfield, Michigan. The Mob feared he would cooperate with the government to avoid decades in prison. Others have indicated he wasnot dangerous but the people he worked for were. 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. In 1939 Paul took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the "AFL" American Federation of Labor. The film contains many events of the history of JRH, but it takes liberties with the facts included in these events. If so, it is the opinion of some researchers that this would have been in conjuncture with the Vitale & Quasarano businesses of Market Vending Company and the Central Sanitation Incinerator in Hamtramck, Michigan. Allen and his mother set up Union Insurance Agency, and in 1950, would receive their first contract with the Teamsters. Evidence presented to the committee showed on the other hand, that while the Dorfmans had proposed a 17.5% fee to the Fund, they had actually been paid only 7.6%, in line with prevailing rates in the industry, over the previous eight years. 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. By 1951, he basically invested union money into a number of so called business ventures and loaned out money from the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund to would be entrepreneurs with connections to organized crime. Allen Dorfman was the step-son of a Chicago gangster named Red Dorfman. As was previously mentioned, Allen Dorfman also owned a 167 acre Hunting Lodge in Eagle River, WI. After Hoffa went to prison in 1967, Dorfman took control of the Central States Pension fund. Amalgamated Insurance Company Inc., once headed by Allen Dorfman, is being run by the fund and also occupies space in the building. Fitzsimmons died of cancer in 1981. The funds now under Dorfman's company made up 90% of the branch companys contracts. This incident was only the tip of the iceberg. Three days before his sentencing, scheduled for January 23, 1983, he was murdered in the Purple Hotel parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois. In contrast, Dorfman was regarded as a Hoffa suspect. The U.S. Department of Labor had also been trying to freeze the assets of Dorfman's companies and place them in the hands of a receiver. Interest in Allan Dorfman picked up after the trials by not only the FBI but also the Internal Revenue Service. The Liquor Commission has proposed extending bar hours from 1 to 2 a.m. and increasing the number of licenses from 25 to 32. In reality it is not known exactly how or by what means Hoffa was killed. Immediately afterward Mr. Hopps ran to the U.S. Government for help. Some members looked at itas a violation of the "ERISA" act of 1974. "But it's still the mystery today as it was back in 1983 on that cold January day when they put seven slugs into Mr. Dorfman's head," Drummond said. You can cancel at any time. Instead, the actual record shows a confident, intelligent, physically fit man. This lodge was purchased including other properties located in Michigans Upper Peninsula. It appears as if, the interested parties that had been poised against JRH reestablishing control of IBT, were found together at this golf course. He made himselfunavailable to serve with a subpoena. 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. [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. Born in The Bronx, New York in 1930, Dorfman served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during the Korean War in the 224th Infantry Regiment. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! The index and middle fingers of his right hand still held a cigarette, long burned out. Dorfman and four others, including Teamsters President Roy L. Williams and reputed mobster Joseph 'Joey the Clown' Lombardo, were convicted last year of conspiracy to bribe former Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada. The first two seasons of the show were biweekly broadcasts, with the last episode of Season Two broadcast three weeks after the one that preceded it. "They had to get rid of Dorfman. JRH losthis position of Teamsters leadershipas a condition tohave his sentence commuted by President Richard Nixon. Allen Dorfman was investigated in the McClellan hearings. "Loans" to Crime figures in LCN families were no exception and some generouspolitical contributions were also made. Please subscribe to keep reading. A 10-day temporary restraining order issued by Cook County Circuit Judge Albert Porter prevents the Teamsters from locking David Dorfman and others from the building. Dorfman also led a jet-set lifestyle immaculately dressed and with a perpetual tan, as CBS 2's John Drummond put it at the time. 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. It was demolished in August 2013, and a new development is under construction there today. 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. "They had to hit him and do it soon," Drummond said. Hoffa persuaded that additional Union funds be deposited with the Union Casualty Agency. Learn about yet another Little Known Character in America with this week's column from Cal Campbell. March 1 (UPI) -- A pair of dogs ventured out onto the ice of a frozen lake and ended up needing to be rescued by firefighters from two departments. [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. 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. Some loans went bust or bankrupt, but others emanated tremendous profits. We surmised there were others in attendance connected to the Hoffa case. The money, the timing and the circumstances are quite suspicious to say the least. Allens stepfather was Paul Red Dorfman, who happened to be head of the Chicago Waste Handlers Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit. In 1959, the McClellan Committee, a U.S. Senate group investigating potential crimes and improprieties in the U.S. labor movement, inquired again over the allegedly excessive fees paid by the Teamsters Welfare Funds moneys with Dorfmans agency. It was Allen Dorfman and JRH that essentially built this fund along with advice from certain successfulIndustrialists to make it profitable. 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. In the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie "Casino," Alan King played a character named Andy Stone who was based on Dorfman. Hoffa had openly vowed to retake control of the union and it's pension fund by running for IBT President in 1976. Hoffa had openly vowed to retake control of the union and it's pension fund by running for IBT President in 1976. The depiction of Allen Dorfman withinthe " Irishman" movie , does not line upwith evidence we discovered from credible sources. Some of the informationportrayed in the film isbased on erroneous opinionsand seemed to have been used to provideentertainment value. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. The committee also suspected that large cash withdrawals from the business were actually kickbacks to Hoffa. [6] He was again investigated in 1973 on similar charges, related to payoffs given to have the Teamsters represent agricultural workers in California, in place of the United Farm Workers Union. . David Dorfman and several other people are partial owners of Meridian-American Inc., an insurance brokerage that occupies space in the building. Two dogs rescued after falling through ice on Colorado lake. Shortly after these events,Murphy jumped ship as a trustee on the pension fund and 11 more trustees resigned under pressure from possible investigations. A host of so called investors wanted to get their mittsinto that cookie jar. Allen Bernard Dorfman passed away Friday of complications related to covid. The addition to the Charleston waterworks was financed through funds on hand and by a small bond issue. CHICAGO -- The son of slain mob figure Allen Dorfman Wednesday was given a judge's permission to move his firm into his father's company headquarters -- a building owned by the Teamsters pension fund. Cars were fire bombed. Then, three days before his sentencing, on January 20, 1983, Allen Dorfman was gunned down in Lincolnwood, IL. 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. Dorfman was not only empowered by Hoffa, he also managed to align himself with organizedcrime leaders through out the country. The fund would never have grown to it's enormous capacity if it did not have Hoffaat the helm along with Dorfman's savvy. The character of "Andy Stone" (played by Alan King) in the 1995 film Casino was based upon Dorfman. 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. 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 . Scientists believe they've found untapped helium reserves, Person hired to promote new 'Scream' movie prompts 911 calls, Most Americans with diabetes don't get recommended new medications, Polish basketball player breaks slam dunk world record, Extra food support ends for millions of low-income U.S. taxpayers. The names in Allen's testimony comprise a rogues' gallery of crime. His son was Allen Dorfman, whose picture I have. The IBT Central States Pension Fund grew to one of the most lucrative accounts in North America. 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. "The fact they did it in broad daylight, in a popular restaurant and hotel, and got away with it and it hadn't been cleared, and I thought by now it would have been.". Red Dorfman (19011971) and Rose Ritman (19072003). You have permission to edit this article. [7], In February 1974, Dorfman was indicted for fraud involving $1.4 million in loans made by the Teamster's pension fund to Gaylur Products/American Pail Company, a plastics manufacturing company in Deming, New Mexico. 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. 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. JRH went to trial over this arrangement and during the trial attempted to bribe some of the jurors. According to FBI files, Red agreed to introduce Hoffa to mob figures in exchange for his sons entry into the Teamsters insurance business. "It was almost unprecedented.". His main office told those who attemptingto contact him that he could not be reached because he was "out of town". As a result of information obtained from the wiretaps, a federal grand jury in Chicago indicted Dorfman in May 1981. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 resulting from investigations of labor corruption and organized crime activities called for such action. Most impressive, when Allen Dorfman was forced to resign as "special consultant" to the fund in 1972 because he was on his way to jail for taking a $55,000 bribe in the award of a loan (he . View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Maintained by: William Seitz Findinghoffa.com would like to look at the entire list of participants at this event. Dorfman was acquitted in the case, but Jimmy Hoffa, was found guilty of this crime in 1964. We surmised there were others in attendance connected to the Hoffa case. Celebrities such as Barry Manilow and Robert Flack stayed at the hotel over the years. In 1951, Hoffa made arrangements that the Unions retirement funds be deposited in the Chicago branch of Union Casualty Agency, despite the fact that the young Dorfman had no experience in the insurance business. (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). Dating back to the early 1960s, the hotel was known for its two high-end restaurants Tessy's, where Dorfman and Weiner had been going, and T.J. Peppercorn's. In early 1949, Hoffa set up the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund. Dorfman, sentenced to spend the rest. Afraid of what Dorfman might reveal to the FBI, he was murdered in Lincolnwood, Illinois. La Cosa Nostra had some Cuban investments in gambling casinos, they would hope to protect. 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.. He taught physical education and served in the Marine Corps before joining up with the various projects with Jimmy Hoffa. Dorfman was on a first-name basis with powerful politicians, union bigwigs, and Hollywood stars but was also tied up with organized crime figures. The contract soon extended to sickness and accident insurance. 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. Findinghoffa.com believes abuse of this pension fund led many of the investors to their eventual demise. 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. No one doubted the Chicago Outfit was behind his demise in the hotel parking lot, but who actually did it? That remains a mystery. In the back seat of Dorfman's car at the time of the shooting was a VHS videocassette of the new Paul Newman movie, "The Verdict.". His main office told those who attemptingto contact him that he could not be reached because he was "out of town". 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. Later in 1972, Fitzsimmons took full control of IBT. "Hoffa Union Associate Indicted Over Kickback", Los Angeles Times, Jul 15, 1971. "We could put 25 agents on him." 60-year-old Allen Dorfman was a millionaire insurance executive and a middleman between the Teamsters' top union leaders and Chicago's mob bosses. Some of the informationportrayed in the film isbased on erroneous opinionsand seemed to have been used to provideentertainment value. Dorfman was regarded as ever present in the long shadow James R. Hoffa cast over many of his associations and for a much longer period than most people associated with him. The AFL-CIO removed Paul from their ranks in 1957 due to a history of infractions and improprieties. On October 9, 1975, just over 2 months later the annual Frank Fitzsimmons Golf Tournament at the LaCosta Resort, we have a group of major Hoffa suspects together with ex U.S. President Richard Nixon. For those watching the popular motion picture produced by Martin Scorsesein 2019 "The Irishman", we see quite a different depiction of Allen Dorfman as to what he was really like. 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. It becameobvious to us, it would not be good for a person's health to get on the wrong side of Allen Dorfman. Who was Richard Dorfman and what did he do? The hotel in its later years was also known for hosting such events as the Midwest Fetish Fair & Marketplace. With Frank Fitzsimmons at the helm, the LCN and others had benefited by Hoffa staying out of the union. Under the tentative agreement, the Dorfman family and some other top officials of Meridian agreed not to return to the building. Between 1959 and 1969 the Central States Pension Fund Plan the loans had gone unpaid. Allen Dorfman (January 6, 1923 January 20, 1983) was an insurance agency owner, and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. 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