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Gangland Wire

The Murder of Allen Dorfman

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Retired KC Police Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews Chicago Outfit author and historian Camillus “Cam” Robinson about Teamster Pension Fund advisor and Outfit associate Allen Dorfman and why the Outfit murdered him. Camillus Robinson explains how Allen Dorfman became embroiled in a scheme with Kansas City Teamster Roy Williams and Outfit Capo Joey “The Clown” Lombardo to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon. The Teamsters were engaged in the political fight of their lives. Congress was working on legislation enabling the trucking companies to achieve independence from the Teamster’s Union. Senator Cannon had worked to delay and/or quash a trucking deregulation bill that would allow the big companies to hire more independent truckers. The Teamsters learned of an issue in Senator Cannon’s home neighborhood where he was trying to stop a high rise from being built. The Union purchased the land earmarked for the development and told Cannon, “Don’t worry, it’s yours now.”  The government had Dorfman’s office wired for sound, and they could hear many conversations Dorman had with Joey Lombardo and others about Outfit business. Gary plays one tape allowing the listener to hear Joey Lombardo threaten a casino owner, Morris Shenker, in a demand he pay money to Dorfman because “the people who own Dorfman” do care about this money. The government also heard Dorfman discussing a transfer of power within the Outfit when the boss Joey Doves Aiuppa became so ill with heart problems that he was stepping away. In this conversation, Dorfman indicates that Jackie Cerone was incapable and too “hot-headed” and that Tony Spilotro had been the heir apparent until he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup  click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.6

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:33.2

Well, welcome all your wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.

0:41.4

I have, as you can see, if you're on YouTube, I have our good friend, Camilla's Camus, Cam Robinson. Welcome, Cam.

0:48.7

Hey, Gary, how you doing? You know, he's my go-to guy for Chicago outfit stuff. You are, Cam, you're my go-to guy.

0:57.5

I love being on. You know I do. I know, I know you do. And we're going to get you and Paul Whitcomb back on here one of these days soon, too. You understand you came up, you did some research about some other outfit stuff.

1:02.7

You got a lot of raw data there somewhere, thousand pages of it, right? I did. I pulled up some great

1:08.0

government documents. We're going to get into that for too long. I know we are. All right. So today we're going to talk a little bit about Alan Dorman.

1:16.4

And the question, as you can see from the title, the question is, why was Alan Dorman killed?

1:22.2

I think we kind of know Joy Lombardo probably had something to do with it.

1:26.1

Frank Swiss, maybe.

1:29.4

There's a couple other names mentioned.

1:32.0

Do you remember what other names are mentioned in that hit?

1:37.7

One of the names I've always heard was Pauli Shiro.

1:41.1

I think Pauly Shiro could have come out and been a guy.

1:46.2

I think Pauly Shiro was involved in a hit that took place up in Milwaukee.

1:52.9

He was sort of a go-to guy, somebody that nobody around Chicago knew.

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