Allen Dorfman
Convicted in 1972 of conspiring to accept a bribe affecting the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund, where the Second Circuit described him as special consultant. The Seventh Circuit records that he was found guilty of conspiring to bribe a senator and was murdered before sentencing.
- Aliases
- Allen M. Dorfman
- Role
- Special consultant to the Teamsters Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund (Second Circuit, 1972)
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state.
On the record
- 5 November 1957 — Committee counsel's statement and his own testimony. Before the McClellan Committee, under subpoena, he said the committee staff had reviewed his companies' records "for the past 11 weeks in my office"; chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy told the committee, "We have had nothing but stumbling blocks as we have moved along" (Hearings, Part 37, pp. 13727-13728).
- 27 January 1959 — His own testimony. Describing himself as in the insurance business, he answered questions about when he began it and how he became broker for the Central Conference of Teamsters Welfare and Pension Fund: "I claim my privilege under the fifth amendment to the Constitution" (Hearings, Part 43, p. 15985).
- 1967 — United States v. Dorfman, 470 F.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1972): "Appellant was special consultant to the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas, Pension Fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters." The Fund made a $1,500,000 loan to Neisco, and "The Government claimed that this loan was a result of a $55,000 bribe by Horvath to Dorfman." The jury found him guilty and the conviction was affirmed on November 29, 1972.
- 29 January 1979 — United States v. Dorfman, 690 F.2d 1217 (7th Cir. 1982): the FBI received authority on January 29, 1979 to tap telephones at an insurance agency in Chicago and to intercept the conversations of Dorfman and five others; "The surveillance produced more than 2,000 reels of recordings."
- 1984 — United States v. Williams, 737 F.2d 594 (7th Cir. 1984), states in a footnote that Dorfman was found guilty on all counts of conspiring to bribe a United States senator and "was murdered prior to sentencing and the case against him was dismissed as moot."
- 8 October 1987 — United States v. Cerone, 830 F.2d 938 (8th Cir. 1987), summarizing the Government's account: "The conspirators also maintained control of the Teamsters Union and its pension fund through Allen Dorfman, who secretly controlled the fund along with Roy Williams, a Teamsters official."
- 1980 — A Senate subcommittee staff member's summary of FBI affidavits, in the 1980 Central States hearings, says Nick Civella's organization and Dorfman "have a strong voice within the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund." The affidavits' statements are the FBI's, not findings.
This page is limited to federal court records, two McClellan Committee hearings and a Senate report. The courts’ statements about Dorfman concern the pension fund, a 1967 loan and a bribery prosecution. The Eighth Circuit’s Argent opinion gives the Government’s account of the fund and Dorfman, and that account is not a finding. No opened record states a family or rank for Dorfman. No opinion opened for this page gives the date or circumstances of his death.
Records
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.
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.itemUnited States v. Dorfman, 690 F.2d 1217 (7th Cir. 1982)Seventh Circuit opinion of September 2, 1982 on appeals over wiretap evidence in the prosecution of Allen Dorfman and others for conspiring to bribe a United States senator, describing a fourteen-month FBI interception that produced more than 2,000 reels of recordings.itemUnited States v. Williams, 737 F.2d 594 (7th Cir. 1984)Seventh Circuit opinion of June 8, 1984 affirming the convictions of Teamsters president Roy Williams, Joseph Lombardo, and others for conspiring to bribe a United States Senator.itemUnited States v. Cerone, 830 F.2d 938 (8th Cir. 1987)Eighth Circuit opinion of October 8, 1987 affirming the Kansas City convictions of Aiuppa, Cerone, Lombardo, LaPietra, and Rockman for skimming the Stardust and Fremont casinos in Las Vegas.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.