signed by artist, lower right on sheet in black ink: Allen Ginsberg; artist inscription, across bottom under image: Elsa Dorfman, Harvey Silverglate, their son Isaac & late beloved / brindled Greyhound "Moozer" on J.F.K. The infamy of the hotel disappointed former Lincolnwood Mayor Jerry Turry. In the 1940s his dealings with JRH steered his endeavors to move alongside with the expansion of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). Some of these same folks were at the Fitzsimmons Tournament in 1974. There simply is not enough evidence to pin a murder wrap on one specific person. Allens stepfather was Paul Red Dorfman, who happened to be head of the Chicago Waste Handlers Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit. "Dorfman himself was awaiting sentencing in federal court, but apparently, someone had already passed sentence on Allen Dorfman," the late CBS 2 reporter Phil Walters said in his report on the murder. The money, the timing and the circumstances are quite suspicious to say the least. These two men (Dorfman and Murphy) were both involved withthe Pension Fund. Some theorize it was the publishing of the LCN leaderships names involved with these covert operations that also led to a motive to take Hoffa out of the picture permanently. Findinghoffa.com believes abuse of this pension fund led many of the investors to their eventual demise. ("Dorfman"), appeal from an opinion and order dated July 20, 2000 and a judgment dated July 25, 2000 of the Chicago Outfit: Allen Dorfman Death Site 2,101 views Apr 26, 2021 Like Dislike Share Street Stories 2.91K subscribers Having had the honor of speaking to @Red Wemette it occurred to me to. Dorfman was not only empowered by Hoffa, he also managed to align himself with organizedcrime leaders through out the country. Modern "hoffaologists" have criticized the production because of some of the portrayals of who may have killed Hoffa and how they did it. Some members looked at itas a violation of the "ERISA" act of 1974. Nearly all of Meridian-America moved out of the building last February as part of a tentative agreement stipulating Amalgamated would be sold to the Teamsters Central States Health and Welfare Fund. A "fivesome" group of Nixon, Frank Fitzsimmons, John Murphy (Trustee of the IBT Pension Fund and CEO of Gateway Transportation), Murry Miller (ExecutiveSecretary of IBT) and Joseph Teratola (LCN, IBT Vice President and President of Joint Council 16 in New York). Law enforcement was watching anyone that showed up on their radar. The Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip and the Jersey Shore, along with exclusive real estate deals like the Rancho La Costa Golf Resort in Southern California were built from it's extensive reserves of capital. He also received an Associate's Degree from Northeastern University. He wasa forceful leader and influentialplayer when it came to orchestratingthe money coming out of the IBT Pension Fund. In reality it is not known exactly how or by what means Hoffa was killed. By 1951, he basically invested union money into a number of so called business ventures and loaned out money from the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund to would be entrepreneurs with connections to organized crime. List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces, "Allen Dorfman Built Wealth Through Teamster Contracts". Evidence exists that Dorfman also knew of the attempts made by clandestine ops from government agencies to work with elements of organized crime to assist in overthrowing of the Castro Regime. Some of the informationportrayed in the film isbased on erroneous opinionsand seemed to have been used to provideentertainment value. In fact one U.S. Congressional document includes an excerpt from the press using the phrase, His activities along with his step father and his mother can be traced back to Hoffa's transactions with the major power brokers in the trucking industry and with Hoffa's introduction to many of the movers and shakers belonging to organized crime. It becameobvious to us, it would not be good for a person's health to get on the wrong side of Allen Dorfman. Judging from the style of the slaying, the killers who pumped eight bullets into Dorfmans head Thursday were probably hired assassins from out of town, Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek said. Dorfman formed the Union Insurance Agency and soon had an exclusive contract to sell insurance to the Teamsters. In 1939 Paul Dorfman was struck seven times at close range. John Murphy, seen with Dorfman, on that day in California never got a second look as to any connection to Hoffa. Bullets were flying through union office buildings, people were seriously assaulted, and even a yacht was blown to bits by means of a mysterious explosion. One of the two trustees indicted was Albert Matheson of Bloomfield, Michigan. Between 1959 and 1969 the Central States Pension Fund Plan the loans had gone unpaid. Allen Dorfman, who died in a hail of bullets in Chicago, was a financier for the Teamsters Union, a union with a long history of links to organized crime. Earlier Dorfman himself threw in with the anti Hoffa people. It was Allen Dorfman and JRH that essentially built this fund along with advice from certain successfulIndustrialists to make it profitable. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with the Chicago Outfit. They had to take the risks of doing the hit in public like that, because they normally would have never have done that," Drummond said. We are talking billions of dollars here! Many researchers feel JRH was faced with a choicewhether he should exchange information with the Church Committee in order to gain leverage in his pursuit to reestablishcontrol of IBT or retire all together from labor union causes. Dorfman was also indicted in San Francisco a week before he was gunned down on charges of attempting to loot the funds of a labor union there. In 1951, Hoffa made arrangements that the Unions retirement funds be deposited in the Chicago branch of Union Casualty Agency, despite the fact that the young Dorfman had no experience in the insurance business. Dorfman was convicted in December 1982, along with president Roy Lee Williams and members of the Chicago Mafia. The IBT Central States Pension Fund grew to one of the most lucrative accounts in North America. The major factor with Allen Dorfman is through his efforts and his deals with the IBT expansion. How Allen Dorfman became a millionaire within five years of opening the insurance agency immediately drew the suspicion of government agents. 60-year-old Allen Dorfman was a millionaire insurance executive and a middleman between the Teamsters' top union leaders and Chicago's mob bosses. Earlier Dorfman himself threw in with the anti Hoffa people. According to local lore, the FBI searched the lake near the lodge after Jimmy Hoffa, a frequent Jack O'Lantern visitor, disappeared in 1975. Running the IBT Pension Fund took more than handing out cash whenever someone wanted it. Three days before his sentencing, scheduled for January 23, 1983, Allen Dorfman was murdered outside the Lincolnwood Hyatt parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois. [7], In February 1974, Dorfman was indicted for fraud involving $1.4 million in loans made by the Teamster's pension fund to Gaylur Products/American Pail Company, a plastics manufacturing company in Deming, New Mexico. Dorfman was acquitted in the case, but Jimmy Hoffa, was found guilty of this crime in 1964. "They had to get rid of Dorfman. So, it was this Test Fleet arrangement that was used as a means by the Kennedys to eventually send JRH to prison. It appears JRH'slong time friend and associate Allen Dorfman, with other formerloyalists, began to turn against him. "It was almost unprecedented.". Dorfman had been in plenty of trouble already by the time he was gunned down. Allen Dorfman was released on the bail bond thus posted and, on January 20, 1983, died as a result of gun shots inflicted by persons unknown. For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. It becameobvious to us, it would not be good for a person's health to get on the wrong side of Allen Dorfman. He was to be sentenced in 1983 for attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon but he was murdered. Allen Dorfman was investigated in the McClellan hearings. There simply is not enough evidence to pin a murder wrap on one specific person. Dorfmans rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters ranks, along with spectacular growth in the unions pension funds, which eventually came largely under Dorfmans administration. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. In the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie "Casino," Alan King played a character named Andy Stone who was based on Dorfman. (Examples of this tact are seen with an unsubstantiated meeting of IBTs Frank Fitzsimmons with LCNs Vitale and Quasarano before the disappearance and a reportedmeeting involving the same two mobsters with a Genovese family front man Fat Tony Salerno, afterward). Paul Dorfman became associated with Hoffa early on in the scheme of things. Some of them launched a effort to discredit the movie on that basis as well as some other references to the murdersof La Cosa Nostra ("LCN") associates like Joe Gallo or Salvatore Briguglio. I have been looking high and low for a photo of Paul Red Dorfman, who had ties to Hoffa and Ruby. So, it was this Test Fleet arrangement that was used as a means by the Kennedys to eventually send JRH to prison. However,the idea stills persists to this day as one of the more popular misconceptionsfoisted by the vivid imaginations of a fewsensationalistic commentators and tabloid journalists. The case stemmed from the FBI's Operation Pendorf beginning in 1979 in which wiretaps were set up in Dorfman's insurance agency offices for the FBI to penetrate Dorfman's funneling of Teamsters pension money to mob casinos in Las Vegas, according to a 1982 Washington Post report. On January 24, decedent's estate was opened for probate in the circuit court of Lake County and letters of office issued to his sons, James and David Dorfman, as executors. Allen Dorfman (January 6, 1923 January 20, 1983) was an insurance agency owner, and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. If there is a single person on the list of names under suspicion with the disappearance of James Riddle Hoffa (JRH) it might be Allen Dorfman. "The fact they did it in broad daylight, in a popular restaurant and hotel, and got away with it and it hadn't been cleared, and I thought by now it would have been.". The water comes from deep wells. Please enter valid email address to continue. Under the tentative agreement, the Dorfman family and some other top officials of Meridian agreed not to return to the building. As Dorfman passed between two cars, the killers came up from behind. Allen Bernard Dorfman passed away Friday of complications related to covid. Its outdoor pool was also immensely popular. (Lombardo was convicted of Seifert's murder in 2007 as a result of Operation Family Secrets. Many of the events aretrue , however, the script writers basing their work on the publication by Charles Brandt : "I Heard You Paint Houses", filled in the gaps with equally unsubstantiated information. Among the loans he later made was a $160 million loan to Argent Corporation, which owned a group of casinos, including the Stardust Resort & Casino. / CBS Chicago. The AFL-CIO removed Paul from their ranks in 1957 due to a history of infractions and improprieties. You can cancel at any time. For example, after the previously mentioned San Franciscoextortion acquittal, Allen Dorfman discovered money had been removed from the IBT pension fund without his authorization. Allen Dorfman owned luxury home on that golf course and participated in the event. Findinghoffa.com believes abuse of this pension fund led many of the investors to their eventual demise. He was a Teamsters insurance executive and was handling the Mob's theft of the Teamsters Central States Pension which the Mob used to build casinos in Vegas and other ventures. "Of all of the wonderful things that happened here and the fine families that had entertainment here, and weddings, and bar mitzvahs, and you name it they remember the Dorfman issue, and Levine, and everything else that's bad," Turry told the late CBS 2 reporter Mike Parker in 2013. In response to this unauthorized transaction,Dorfman called Mr. Hopps and threatened him by saying he would "cut a new hole in his head" "put him in a concrete overcoat" and cause harm to Hopp's Grand children. He got probation instead of prison time. He attended the University of Illinois and taught physical education there. The money, the timing and the circumstances are quite suspicious to say the least. Dorfman, along with other Hoffa allies, was investigated and charged with jury tampering. Edited October 3, 2007 by James Richards. Jan. 20, 1983: Phil Walters reports on the murder of Allen Dorfman and the crime scene, while John Drummond reports on Dorfman's ignoble background: When Dorfman walked the halls of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse just a month earlier as his professional world crumbled, he couldn't know the end was near. The fund would never have grown to it's enormous capacity if it did not have Hoffaat the helm along with Dorfman's savvy. He had a grip on Teamsters fund loans, land transactions, and major insurance deals. March 1 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman found out she had won a $1 million Powerball prize just hours before celebrating her 58th birthday. He had just finished a transaction at the First National Bank of Lincolnwood with his friend, Irwin Weiner, and they were going to lunch at Tessy's the restaurant at the Purple Hyatt, formally named the Hyatt House Hotel, at 4500 W. Touhy Ave. at the intersection with Lincoln Avenue. The lesson continues. A host of so called investors wanted to get their mittsinto that cookie jar. ", Drummond said the mob's rationale was: "Allen at 60 years of age can't take hard time anymore. Dorfman also led a jet-set lifestyle immaculately dressed and with a perpetual tan, as CBS 2's John Drummond put it at the time. However,the idea stills persists to this day as one of the more popular misconceptionsfoisted by the vivid imaginations of a fewsensationalistic commentators and tabloid journalists. threatened him by saying he would "cut a new hole in his head" "put him in a concrete overcoat" and cause harm to Hopp's Grand children. Hopps had to do this in exchange for a reduced sentence from an earlierinsurance fraud convictionin Baltimore and getsome protection after being threatened by Dorfman. The casinos at that time were infiltrated by organized crime and were being heavily skimmed. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. The Jack O'Lantern Lodge, near Eagle River, was owned by Allen Dorfman and the Teamsters. After Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in 1975, the FBI spent a huge effort to investigate the same kind of businesses in the Detroit area based on a "red herring" ruse tip that his body was destroyed in a local meat rendering establishment including the Market Vending Company owned by Hoffex suspectsRaffaele "Jimmy" Quasarano and Pete "Buzzie" Vitale. "Allen Dorfman has wielded power over the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund for many years, through the influence, originally of his father, 'Red' Dorfman a union organizer with allegedly. Three days before his sentencing, scheduled for January 23, 1983, he was murdered in the Purple Hotel parking lot in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The hotel in its later years was also known for hosting such events as the Midwest Fetish Fair & Marketplace. We realize many of these already suspected places were searched for JRH's physical remains and these businesses were under surveillance before, during, and after Hoffa vanished due to the intense violence preceding the Hoffa event in the city of Detroit. Allen Dorfman, an insurance salesman with close ties to the Chicago mob, was gunned down outside the old Purple Hyatt Hotel in Lincolnwood in broad daylight on Jan. 20, 1983, 40 years ago this coming Friday. He was indicted in the subsequent Test Fleet Trials of 1962 and 1964. The names in Allen's testimony comprise a rogues' gallery of crime. We know there were other CEOs noted as being big into golf course capitalism back in the day. As of this time we don't know any of the details presented by all the published experts as being absolute fact to lay responsibility on any of a long list of suspects. One other aspect noted when it comes to the Dorfman's and JRH mysteryis they becamesome of the early pioneers with the waste management and meat rendering businesses especially in Chicago. 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