Printed page 15985 of the McClellan Committee hearings: Mr. Dorfman answers several questions, "I claim my privilege under the fifth amendment to the Constitution." — Open the full imageJPG, 1093 × 1900 px, 0.4 MB

McClellan 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."

Date: 1959-01-27
Kind: hearing
Source: Internet Archive, scan of the printed hearings, Part 43
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Docket: Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings before the Select Committee, 86th Cong., 1st sess., Part 43 (Dorfman testimony at printed pp. 15983-15985)
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 43 covers the hearings of 27, 28 and 29 January and 3 February 1959. Allen Dorfman testified on 27 January, with counsel Stanford Clinton. Earlier the same day a witness identified articles of incorporation of Ram Transport, Enterprise Equipment & Leasing and Reed Transportation (Exhibits 215A to 215C).

Dorfman described himself as in the insurance business. Asked “Mr. Dorfman, when did you begin your insurance business?” he answered: “I claim my privilege under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.” Kennedy said he had understood that the witness would answer questions about “how Mr. Dorfman came to be the broker for the Central Conference of Teamsters Welfare and Pension Fund,” and asked how he became broker for the insurance of the Central States Health and Welfare Fund. Dorfman gave the same answer to each question (printed p. 15985).

A refusal to answer is not evidence of the facts asked about. The page records the questions and the answers only.

itemMcClellan 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.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.itemSenate Report 97-177: Oversight Inquiry of the Labor Department's Investigation of the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund (1981)The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations' 1981 report, including its account of notes seized from a Kansas City home in February 1979 that the staff concluded set out how proceeds of a Las Vegas skimming operation were divided.