20 Facts About Allen Dorfman

Allen Melnick Dorfman was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Central States Pension Fund.

Allen Dorfman was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit.

Allen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1923 to a working-class Jewish family, the son or stepson of Paul J "Red" Dorfman and Rose Ritman.

Allen Dorfman enlisted in the US Marines and earned a Silver Star at the Battle of Iwo Jima.

In 1949, Allen Dorfman was making $4,000 a year as a physical education teacher at the University of Illinois when Red struck a deal with Jimmy Hoffa, then head of the Teamsters Union in Michigan.

Red Allen Dorfman was one of only two trustees on the fund.

Allen Dorfman rose to prominence following World War II and by the late 1950s was a close cohort of IBT President Jimmy Hoffa.

Allen Dorfman's rise coincided with enormous expansion in Teamsters' ranks, along with spectacular growth in the union's pension funds, which eventually came largely under Allen Dorfman's administration.

In 1951, he persuaded two trustees of the fund, Frank Fitzsimmons and an employer trustee, to move the fund's business to the newly formed Chicago branch of Union Casualty Agency, despite the fact that Allen Dorfman had no experience in the insurance business.

In one instance, Allen Dorfman took $51,462 in premiums and simply deposited it in a special account that he maintained with his mother, with no complaints from the Teamsters.

Allen Dorfman was peripherally involved in the United States Department of Justice's prosecution of Hoffa for his involvement with a trucking company known as Test Fleet that he and Brennan had established in the 1950s in their wives' names and with the assistance of Commercial Carriers, Inc.

Allen Dorfman was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970.

Allen Dorfman was convicted and sentenced to one year in federal prison.

Allen Dorfman was again investigated in 1973 on similar charges, related to payoffs given to have the Teamsters represent agricultural workers in California, in place of the United Farm Workers Union.

Allen Dorfman was convicted in December 1982, along with Teamsters president Roy Lee Williams and Chicago Outfit enforcer Joseph Lombardo, of conspiring to bribe Howard Cannon, the Democratic Senator from Nevada, to oppose deregulation of the over-the-road trucking industry.

Three days before his sentencing, scheduled for January 23,1983, Allen Dorfman was murdered in the parking lot outside the Lincolnwood Hyatt in Lincolnwood, Illinois.

Allen Dorfman was with longtime friend Irwin Weiner, a known associate of many Chicago mob figures.

Allen Dorfman attended the University of Illinois and taught physical education there.

Allen Dorfman is portrayed by Jake Hoffman in the 2019 Martin Scorsese film The Irishman.

The film incorrectly states that Allen Dorfman was killed in 1979.