S2 Ep4: Allen Dorfman (Part 2)

Mafia

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🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Allen Dorfman assumes control over the Teamsters’ Union vast pension fund with Jimmy Hoffa out of the picture. But it would be FBI surveillance and Dorfman’s carelessness in attempting to bribe a U.S. Senator that would lead to the end of his reign. Our sponsors for this episode are SimpliSafe (simplisafe.com/mafia) and Framebridge (framebridge.com PROMO: MAFIA). Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni (damianobaldoni.altervista.org). Music in this episode is "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; “Tumult”, “Floret” and “Junction” by Kai Engel (http://www.kai-engel.com/); “Dance of the Sugar Plums Fairies” by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com); “Roaming the Streets at Night” by Daniel Birch (www.danielbirchmusic.com). Sound effects from freesound.org by carminooch, gregsmedia, ebcrosby, eflexthesounddesigner. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	In the previous episode, we heard how Alan Dorfman rose to become one of the most
0:05.9	influential middlemen between prominent union figures and the Chicago mob,
0:10.7	through managing the teamster's vast pension fund. In the beginning, he was
0:16.9	working with powerful union president Jimmy Hoffa to funnel cash to the Mafia,
0:21.6	but Hoffa was sent to prison and Dorfman was now working with mobster Joey
0:26.8	the clown Lombardo. The FBI were on to them, committed to bringing down the one
0:33.3	man who was instrumental in bankrolling the million dollar mob projects.
0:38.2	Alan Dorfman, the Mafia banker. We were after Dorfman because he was the the gear
0:46.2	that made everything run. He might have been a man who would be successful in any
0:50.0	walk of business, but he got in with the mob. A very intelligent individual, but also
0:56.2	a person with a huge ego, believing that he was smarter than everyone else.
1:04.4	In this audio boom original series, we explore America's criminal underworld to
1:10.1	reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters. This series has been
1:15.5	extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts, authors, and
1:19.9	the people who were actually there. In this episode, we tell the
1:25.0	extraordinary story of how the FBI hunted Alan Dorfman, bugged his business,
1:30.4	and caused one of the biggest disasters in Mafia history.
1:38.2	In the early 1970s, former teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa was still behind bars
1:44.3	for robbing a jury, but life on the outside was good for Alan Dorfman. With Joey
1:51.1	Lombardo's backing, Dorfman was approving million-dollar loans for mobster projects.
1:56.8	The two men worked well together, and they didn't need Hoffa anymore to gain
2:02.1	access to the teamsters pension fund money. And then on December 23rd, 1971, Jimmy
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