Testimony of Walter A. Dorn, Dorn's Transportation Co., July 6, 1959 (McClellan Committee, Part 55, pp. 19246 ff.)
A trucking executive tells the McClellan Committee that in 1952 two Local 560 business agents told him "if I wanted to stop having trouble I had better get him some money," and that he paid Anthony Provenzano about $1,500 in cash at the Swiss Town House in Weehawken over the next fifteen months.
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- 1959-07-06
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- Investigation of Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, Hearings before the Select Committee, 86th Cong., Part 55, pp. 19246 ff.
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- A work of the United States Congress, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The scan is of a GPO printing; Internet Archive marks it not in copyright. The stored page image was taken from the Internet Archive scan; quotations follow the Archive OCR, checked against the page image.
Printed in Part 55, session of July 6, 1959. Dorn, an officer of Dorn’s Transportation, a large New Jersey trucking company with contracts with Teamsters locals including Local 560, describes a 1952 meeting with Anthony Provenzano and Anthony Castellito, whom the committee describes as Local 560 business agents. The stored image is page 19248.
“The approach was if I wanted to stop having trouble I had better get him some money.” Asked how much, he says, “I believe it was generally about $5,000 a year.” He told them he did not control the company’s money but would do what he could himself, and: “Over the next 15 months I paid about $1,500 in cash total,” in four payments. Kennedy: “When did you have the meeting at which the initial approach was made to you?” Dorn: “At the Swiss Town House in Weehawken.” The payments were made there too, by hand, “probably the late summer of 1952, continued sometime in 1954,” and stopped because “I was afraid to do it any longer.”
This is the background of the 1964 Hobbs Act conviction for extorting $17,100 from the Dorn company (334 F.2d 678), which covered later payments to another man and a later period. The committee prints the second agent’s name as Castellito; the 1982 and 1984 Local 560 opinions spell the name of the 1961 murder victim Castellitto. These pages do not say whether they are the same person, and this archive does not assert it.
