Record
Court opinion
1964-06-30
CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion
United States v. Provenzano, 334 F.2d 678 (3d Cir. 1964)
The Third Circuit affirmed Anthony Provenzano's Hobbs Act conviction. He was indicted in 1960, as an officer of Teamsters Local 560, for extorting $17,100 from Dorn's Transportation Company between 1952 and 1959.
- Date
- 1964-06-30
- Kind
- court-opinion
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Docket
- No. 14614 (3d Cir.); 334 F.2d 678
- Rights
- Opinion of a United States court. Works of the federal judiciary are in the public domain in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 105). The text was read on CourtListener (Free Law Project).
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, argued 12 March 1964 and decided 30 June 1964; Chief Judge Biggs wrote the opinion. CourtListener’s header gives the date rehearing was denied, 28 July 1964.
The opinion begins: “The defendant-appellant, Anthony Provenzano, was indicted on November 15, 1960, in a single-count indictment charging him, an officer of Local 560, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Local 560), with obstructing, delaying, and affecting interstate commerce from January 1, 1952 to June 1, 1959, by extorting through economic fear” from Dorn’s Transportation Company or its vice president, Walter A. Dorn. The sum charged was $17,100.
The court summarizes the testimony. Dorn’s moved its trucking terminal from New York City to Secaucus, New Jersey, on 1 January 1952, and labor trouble followed. Dorn paid Provenzano cash in 1952 and 1953 and later paid a lawyer whose name Provenzano supplied, which Dorn described as “the method of making the payment.” The court concluded: “The judgment of conviction will be affirmed.”
