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Printed page 13730 of the McClellan Committee hearings: counsel Mr. Clinton says investigators had been examining the Union Insurance Co. records for eleven weeks.
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McClellan Committee hearings, Part 37: Allen Dorfman and the subpoenaed records (5 November 1957)

Allen Dorfman appeared under subpoena with counsel Stanford Clinton. Chief counsel Robert Kennedy and the committee's accountant described three months of difficulty obtaining the records of Dorfman's companies; Dorfman said the staff had reviewed them in his office for eleven weeks.

Date
1957-11-05
Kind
hearing
Source
Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 37
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings before the Select Committee, Part 37 (proceedings of November 5, 1957 at printed p. 13727)
Rights
A work of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Read from the Internet Archive scan of the print and its OCR text; the page image stored here is from that scan.

Part 37 opens with proceedings of 5 November 1957 (printed p. 13727). The volume also holds sessions of 9 May and 13 to 20 August 1958, which are not described here.

Allen Dorfman was sworn and appeared with counsel Stanford Clinton. Asked whether he had brought the subpoenaed records, he said: “We have part of the records which you have requested, Mr. Kennedy. The other records we have not brought with us simply because your committee has reviewed these records for the past 11 weeks in my office.”

Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy told the committee that the investigation “involving the Dorfmans” had met no cooperation over three months: “We have had nothing but stumbling blocks as we have moved along.” The committee’s accountant, Carmine S. Bellino, described records that were promised and not produced and some 15 or 20 companies under investigation. On the page shown here, Clinton answers that the investigators “have been in there for 11 weeks” and asks for “reasonable protection” for the documents.

This is an exchange about access to records. Kennedy’s and Bellino’s statements are the committee staff’s, and Dorfman’s are his own; none is a finding. The volume prints Dorfman’s home address, which is not repeated here.

itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 43: Allen Dorfman and the Central Conference of Teamsters insurance (27 January 1959)Allen Dorfman, describing himself as in the insurance business, declined under the Fifth Amendment to say when he began it. Robert Kennedy said the hearing concerned how Dorfman "came to be the broker for the Central Conference of Teamsters Welfare and Pension Fund."itemUnited States v. Dorfman, 470 F.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1972)Second Circuit opinion of November 29, 1972 affirming Allen Dorfman's conviction for conspiring to accept a bribe to influence a pension plan, over a 1967 Central States Pension Fund loan to Neisco.itemSenate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Central States Pension Fund hearings (1980)Hearings of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, August 25-26 and September 29-30, 1980, on the Labor Department's investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, including a staff summary of FBI affidavits on Kansas City and hidden interests in Las Vegas casinos.