Anthony Provenzano
Officer of Teamsters Local 560 in New Jersey. Convicted of Hobbs Act extortion (affirmed 1964) and of RICO offenses (affirmed 1980); named by the Government in the Local 560 civil RICO case and the 1988 Teamsters complaint. A 1989 opinion records that he had died since the 1988 complaint was filed.
- Aliases
- Tony Pro
- Role
- Officer of Teamsters Local 560, as the 1960 indictment charged (court record: Third Circuit, 1964)
- Rights
- Biography on this page is limited to what the cited federal records state. Each event names its record and the kind of statement it is. The alias is the form the 1988 complaint used, as printed in the caption of 941 F.2d 1292.
On the record
- 6 July 1959 — His own testimony. Before the McClellan Committee he declined to state his occupation or to answer questions about Teamsters offices and payments: "I respectfully decline to answer because I honestly believe my answer might tend to incriminate me" (Hearings, Part 55).
- 15 November 1960 — Court record. Indicted as "an officer of Local 560" for extorting money from Dorn's Transportation Company between 1952 and 1959; the Third Circuit affirmed his Hobbs Act conviction on 30 June 1964 (334 F.2d 678).
- 8 May 1980 — Court record. The Third Circuit affirmed his RICO and RICO-conspiracy convictions, with Thomas and Stephen Andretta, in a scheme to extort "labor peace" payments from Interocean Services (620 F.2d 985).
- 9 March 1982 — Government allegation, as the court summarizes it. The civil RICO complaint against Local 560 named him in a "Provenzano Group" alleged to have controlled the local through extortion and murder. He entered a consent order and was removed as a defendant before trial; the allegation was not tried against him (780 F.2d 267).
- 6 March 1989 — Court record. In the Teamsters civil RICO case the district court noted that "Anthony Provenzano has passed away since the filing of the complaint" (708 F. Supp. 1388). The record gives no date of death.
This page is limited to court opinions and one Senate hearing. No record filed here places him in a crime family, and the extortion-and-murder allegation in the Local 560 case is the Government’s complaint, not a finding against him. The McClellan Committee’s OCR prints his local as “Local 660”; the court records say Local 560. He is not the subject of the separate page on the Provenzano brothers of New Orleans in 1891.
Records
itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 55: Anthony Provenzano declines to answer (July 1959)Printed hearings of 1, 6, 7, 8 and 9 July 1959. On 6 July Anthony Provenzano, with counsel, declined to state his occupation or to answer Robert Kennedy's questions about Teamsters offices and payments, saying his answer "might tend to incriminate me."itemUnited 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.itemUnited States v. Provenzano, 620 F.2d 985 (3d Cir. 1980)The Third Circuit affirmed the RICO and RICO-conspiracy convictions of Anthony Provenzano, Thomas Andretta and Stephen Andretta in a scheme to extort "labor peace" payments from Interocean Services, an in-house trucker for Seatrain Lines.itemUnited States v. Local 560, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 780 F.2d 267 (3d Cir. 1985)The Third Circuit affirmed the civil RICO judgment that found Teamsters Local 560 a "captive labor organization," removed its executive board and imposed a trusteeship until free elections could be held.itemUnited States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 708 F. Supp. 1388 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)Judge David N. Edelstein denied the union's motions to dismiss the Government's 1988 civil RICO complaint against the Teamsters, its General Executive Board, "the Commission of La Cosa Nostra" and 26 alleged members of La Cosa Nostra, and granted default judgments against some defendants.itemUnited States v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 941 F.2d 1292 (2d Cir. 1991): Senese and Talerico appealThe Second Circuit affirmed the orders upholding union disciplinary sanctions on Dominic Senese and Joseph Talerico, imposed "by reason of, among other things, their association with organized crime."