The Jack O'Lantern Lodge, near Eagle River, was owned by Allen Dorfman and the Teamsters. 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. LINCOLNWOOD, Ill. (CBS) -- This week marks 40 years since one of the most brazen and infamously still-unsolved murders in Chicago history. 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. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The longtime Boca Raton resident was 90. All of these things seem tohave contributed in setting the stage for Hoffas eventual disappearance in 1975. 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. Author. In response to this unauthorized transaction. We really don't know the half of it. Dorfman, based mostly in Chicago, was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters' leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970. known as the Jack-O-Lantern Lodge, or JOLL property. When he was facingpressure from a long sentenceto prison, there were those who feared he may talk to the authorities about all the secrets he held in exchange for a better deal. "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.". Engineers break Guinness World Record with 289-foot paper airplane flight. The casinos at that time were infiltrated by organized crime and were being heavily skimmed. Allen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1923 to a working-class Jewish family, the son or stepson of Paul J. I have been looking high and low for a photo of Paul Red Dorfman, who had ties to Hoffa and Ruby. 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. Inscription. Some of this information was made public in Time Magazine in 1975 just prior to JRH disappearance. 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. 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. Like, Comment, Share, Subscribe and click the Notification button for more videos! 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. It appears as ifmany ofthe interested parties that had been poised against JRH reestablishing control of IBT, were found together at this golf course in California after his disappearance. Paul included his son Allen with the workings of the IBT. We are talking billions of dollars here! That remains a mystery. Without Hoffa aligned with Dorfman they had easier accessto raid the pension fund cookie jar. 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. March 1 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman found out she had won a $1 million Powerball prize just hours before celebrating her 58th birthday. As was previously mentioned, Allen Dorfman also owned a 167 acre Hunting Lodge in Eagle River, WI. During the first eight years of management by Union Casualty, the Dorfmans made more than $3 million in commissions and service fees and simply deposited it in a special account that he maintained with his mother, with no complaints from the Teamsters. We know there were other CEOs noted as being big into golf course capitalism back in the day. 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. Murphy was being looked at for an $800K loan to his Gateway Transportation trucking company granted just a few months after Hoffa went missing . The job as Chairman of the IBT Pension Fund required atough personality to orchestrate and control 16 trustees and also successfully deal with the demands made from some very powerful underworld leaders. So, it was this Test Fleet arrangement that was used as a means by the Kennedys to eventually send JRH to prison. connected to the establishment of thesameTest Fleet company that Jimmy Hoffa was brought down by in the trials mentioned above in the early 60s. This fund rivaled the world's largest banks and was the major source of financing for many investments made by theLCN. "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. Even so, the way Murphywas treatedby the authorities was much different from how Dorfman was dealt with. It was determined theseactions were in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act. Prosecutors in the Dorfman case said he and the others offered Cannon a choice piece of Las Vegas land at a bargain price in return for Cannon's agreement to scuttle deregulation legislation. He taught physical education and served in the Marine Corps before joining up with the various projects with Jimmy Hoffa. In early 1949, Hoffa set up the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund. Some members looked at itas a violation of the "ERISA" act of 1974. Some of the informationportrayed in the film isbased on erroneous opinionsand seemed to have been used to provideentertainment value. The senior Dorfman struck a deal with Jimmy Hoffa, then head of the Teamsters Union in Michigan. A number of organized crime members were later convicted in the case. In the bribery conspiracy case, he was scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, 1983 and faced a lengthy prison term. How Allen Dorfman became a millionaire within five years of opening the insurance agency immediately drew the suspicion of government agents. John Murphy, seen with Dorfman, on that day in California never got a second look as to any connection to Hoffa. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit and raised by his Step Father Paul Red Dorfman in Chicago. Test Fleet was set up for Hoffa and Owen Brennan in their wives maiden namesby a large trucking company from Flint, Michigan. It was demolished in August 2013, and a new development is under construction there today. During the late 1950s, Dorfman got involved in approving loans for the Teamster's Central States Pension Fund. 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. Another person connected to Dorfman and to Hoffa wasbusiness CEOJohn Murphy of Gateway Transportation. The contract soon extended to sickness and accident insurance. Without Hoffa aligned with Dorfman they had easier accessto raid the pension fund cookie jar. Interest in Allan Dorfman picked up after the trials by not only the FBI but also the Internal Revenue Service. 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. He was indicted in the subsequent Test Fleet Trials of 1962 and 1964. Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfman's administration. Hoffa had openly vowed to retake control of the union and it's pension fund by running for IBT President in 1976. 40 years later, gangland murder of Allen Dorfman remains unsolved, CBS 2 Vault: Coverage of the gangland murder of Allen Dorfman. Edited October 3, 2007 by James Richards. A native of Chicago, he attended Marshall High School in Chicago and later the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Allen Dorfman was an insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund. Less than a decade after Hoffa vanished a lot of things took a different course with how IBT business was done and who had obtained control of it. March 1 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers said a young seal was returned to the wild one day after it exited the water and walked across a busy New Jersey road. There was concern, Drummond said, that "this guy was going to spill his beans. 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. 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. One of the two trustees indicted was, Albert Matheson of Bloomfield, Michigan. Ontrak Health CEO indicted for alleged insider trading. The major factor with Allen Dorfman is through his efforts and his deals with the IBT expansion. 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. Shortly after these events,Murphy jumped ship as a trustee on the pension fund and 11 more trustees resigned under pressure from possible investigations. It was determined theseactions were in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act. With Colin Tierney, G. Robert Blakey, Howard Cannon, Kent Clifford. Some of these same folks were at the Fitzsimmons Tournament in 1974. Documentationfrom the DOJ, U.S. Congress, FBI, IRS and those who really knew him, provide a different picture. "We could put 25 agents on him." Allens stepfather was Paul Red Dorfman, who happened to be head of the Chicago Waste Handlers Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit. Nixon was making his first public appearance since his resignation connected to "Watergate" and also since the mysterious Hoffa disappearance. 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. 1982: Aerial view shows extent of American Hardware Supply Co.'s new 240,000 square foot distribution center north of Charleston. 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. The Teamsters were engaged in the political fight of their lives. By Chris Tye, John Drummond, Phil Walters, January 16, 2023 / 11:49 PM In response to this unauthorized transaction,Dorfman called Mr. Hopps and 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. There simply is not enough evidence to pin a murder wrap on one specific person. Other participants included Allen Dorfman, with Anthony Provenzano (former IBT Vice President, at the time; President of Local 560 New Jersey, and LCN Genovese Crime Family Capo) in the same tournament with these participants. His main office told those who attemptingto contact him that he could not be reached because he was "out of town". We believe Dorfman had knowledge of the Hoffa incident and eventually became a threat to both the LCN and other conspirators. The IBT Central States Pension Fund grew to one of the most lucrative accounts in North America. But since we are now referring to this Hollywood production, we findthe events follow anumber of incidents pertaining to the Jimmy Hoffa's history. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. You can cancel at any time. On Monday night, CBS 2's Chris Tye took a closer look at the still-unanswered questions in Dorfman's murder. 69-year-old suffered stroke in his N.C. home; Realtor showing house left him there. In 1963, Dorfman was indicted in the same Chattanooga, Tennessee jury-fixing case that sent Hoffa to prison. Some of the informationportrayed in the film isbased on erroneous opinionsand seemed to have been used to provideentertainment value. (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). A host of so called investors wanted to get their mittsinto that cookie jar. 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. Thank you. [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 owned luxury home on that golf course and participated in the event. Dorfmans involvement with some of the planners of Hoffas vanishing would certainly explain the factors we observe from hisown untimely death years later. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit and raised by his Step Father Paul Red Dorfman in Chicago. We really don't know the half of it. 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. 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. The index and middle fingers of his right hand still held a cigarette, long burned out. 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. Thank youBuy 'I Heard You Paint Houses', the best-selling crime novel: htt. "Red" Dorfman (1901-1971) and Rose Ritman (1907-2003). 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". 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. Allen M. Dorfman, the Chicago insurance executive who was slain yesterday in a hotel parking lot near Chicago, built a huge financial empire through close associations with leaders of the. "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. 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. 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.. Kendler's Lake Forest mansion was later bombed, and federal prosecutors said Dorfman and Lombardo were behind it. All of these things seem tohave contributed in setting the stage for Hoffas eventual disappearance in 1975. 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. He was with longtime friend Irwin Weiner, a known associate of many Chicago mob figures. Later in 1972, Fitzsimmons took full control of IBT. Dorfman was acquitted in the case, but Jimmy Hoffa, was found guilty of this crime in 1964. 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. 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. The transaction came at apersonal cost to him. 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. Those doing so, promised continued cooperation with Dorfman and stopped supporting Hoffa for trying to come back into running the IBT union affairs. Federal prosecutors said Dorfman and Lombardo conspired to extort $800,000 from Kendler. Until January 1983, when Dorfman was shot dead in the parking lot of the Purple Hotel, three days before he was . Other participants included Allen Dorfman, with Anthony Provenzano (former IBT Vice President, at the time; President of Local 560 New Jersey, and LCN Genovese Crime Family Capo) in the same tournament with these participants. "But they had to get him when they could, before he went to California and started spilling the beans.". Law enforcement was watching anyone that showed up on their radar. 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. As Dorfman passed between two cars, the killers came up from behind. 60-year-old Allen Dorfman was a millionaire insurance executive and a middleman between the Teamsters' top union leaders and Chicago's mob bosses. The lesson continues. The Teamster's problems continued with the efforts to deregulate the industry, begun by President Carter in 1977. Murphy was being looked at for an $800K loan to his Gateway Transportation trucking company granted just a few months after Hoffa went missing . (Kemler) Dorfman.. 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. Allen Dorfman was indicted along with Hoffa as a co conspirator. This lodge was purchased including other properties located in Michigans Upper Peninsula from profits originating with the previously mentioned Test Fleet company. 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. It grew from representing a few local union halls to a the huge IBT Central States Pension Fund. Immediately afterward Mr. Hopps ran to the U.S. Government for help. At this point, I am convinced it was a mob hit, he said. John Murphy was seen a couple of months after Hoffa disappeared golfing with ex President Richard Nixon and Fitzsimmons. Allen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1923 to a working-class Jewish family, the son or stepson of Paul J. 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. With Frank Fitzsimmons at the helm, the LCN and others had benefited by Hoffa staying out of the union. 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. The case stemmed from the FBI's Operation Pendorf beginning in 1979 in which wiretaps were set up in Dorfman's insurance agency offices for the FBI to penetrate Dorfman's funneling of Teamsters pension money to mob casinos in Las Vegas, according to a 1982 Washington Post report. Who was Richard Dorfman and what did he do? Allen Dorfman. "Loans" to Crime figures in LCN families were no exception and some generouspolitical contributions were also made. 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. The bushy-browed insurance man, linked to the crime syndicate for four decades, most likely died on the orders of underworld associates to 'shut him up,' law enforcement officials said. )[8][9][10], In 1979, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched "Operation Pendorf" (for penetration of Allen Dorfman). Dorfman had been in plenty of trouble already by the time he was gunned down. It was Allen Dorfman and JRH that essentially built this fund along with advice from certain successfulIndustrialists to make it profitable. It becameobvious to us, it would not be good for a person's health to get on the wrong side of Allen Dorfman. 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. Allen Dorfman was released on the bail bond thus posted and, on January 20, 1983, died as a result of gun shots inflicted by persons unknown. Dorfman was on a first-name basis with powerful politicians, union bigwigs, and Hollywood stars but was also tied up with organized crime figures. A federally protected witness told Congress last year that Hoffa tried to kill his teamsters successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, and east coast trucking boss Tony Provenzano when he got out of prison, but his adopted son, Chuckie O'Brien, revealed the plot and Hoffa himself was murdered. The killers apparently waited until Dorfman parked his Cadillac in the hotel parking lot and began walking with Weiner to Tessy's about 100 feet away. View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Maintained by: William Seitz Hopps had to do this in exchange for a reduced sentence from an earlierinsurance fraud convictionin Baltimore and getsome protection after being threatened by Dorfman. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 22, 1946, a son of Haiman and Nettie (Tr His son was Allen Dorfman, whose picture I have. This event seems to tie Dorfman and the other major players and groups together before and after the JRH disappearance. We surmised there were others in attendance connected to the Hoffa case. 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. In the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie "Casino," Alan King played a character named Andy Stone who was based on Dorfman. The Outfit was a criminal organization who in 1959 was described by congressional investigators as the link between the Teamsters Union and the Chicago underworld.. Hoffa had openly vowed to retake control of the union and it's pension fund by running for IBT President in 1976. For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. So we learned, in that instance, Allen Dorfman used words right out of the "mobster playbook" to put fear into the man. ", Drummond said the mob's rationale was: "Allen at 60 years of age can't take hard time anymore. It appears JRH'slong time friend and associate Allen Dorfman, with other formerloyalists, began to turn against him. This opinion is shared by the "follow the money motive" often used by investigators to solve felonious crimes slated for prosecution. Either way one looks at it, Allen Dorfman was certainly no meek and mild push over. Please subscribe to keep reading. The IBT Central States Pension Fund was soon to be changed forever. Then, three days before his sentencing, on January 20, 1983, Allen Dorfman was gunned down in Lincolnwood, IL. Allen Dorfman, an insurance salesman with close ties to the Chicago mob - was gunned down outside the old Purple Hyatt Hotel in Lincolnwood in broad daylight. [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. Oil tanks will be kept full to enable emergency use of the diesel engines which will remain in place although disconnected. . "It requires an effort on Dorfman similarto the effort on Hoffa". Allen Dorfman had, with the blessings of JRH, established this massive fund. Paul Dorfman became associated with Hoffa early on in the scheme of things. Allen Dorfman was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1923 to a working class family and attended Marshall High School in Chicago, Illinois. With Frank Fitzsimmons at the helm, the LCN and others had benefited by Hoffa staying out of the union. The AFL-CIO removed Paul from their ranks in 1957 due to a history of infractions and improprieties. So we have to do something about it.". Under the tentative agreement, the Dorfman family and some other top officials of Meridian agreed not to return to the building. Dorfman, sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for trying to bribe a senator, was shot Thursday in a snow-speckled hotel parking lot. 2023 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. [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. Dorfman was struck seven times at close range. In 1939 Paul took reigns over the Waste Handlers Material Union, Local 20467 of the "AFL" American Federation of Labor. 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. Allen Dorfman may have been involved with the initial planning to get rid of Hoffa along with some others yet to be identified by law enforcement. He's going to talk. 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. The funds now under Dorfman's company made up 90% of the branch companys contracts. "Allen Dorfman has wielded power over the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund for many years, through the influence, originally of his father, 'Red' Dorfman a union organizer with allegedly. Celebrities such as Barry Manilow and Robert Flack stayed at the hotel over the years. 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