Allen and his mother set up Union Insurance Agency, and in 1950, would receive their first contract with the Teamsters. According to FBI files, Red agreed to introduce Hoffa to mob figures in exchange for Allen's entry into the Teamsters' insurance business. In 1949, Allen 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.

Paul 'Red' Dorfman was the head of the Chicago Waste Handler's Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit, who in 1959 was described by Congressional investigators 'as the link between the Teamsters Union and the Chicago underworld.' He enlisted in the US Marines and earned a Silver Star at the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was born Allen Dorfman, even though his mother was not yet married to Dorfman, but as a teenager also went by the name Allen Melnick, which may have been his biological father's name. He attended Marshall High School in Chicago. Dorfman was convicted on several felony counts and was murdered in 1983.Īllen Dorfman was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1923 to a working-class Jewish family, the son or stepson of Paul J. He was a close associate of longtime IBT President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with organized crime via the Chicago Outfit. University of Illinois at Urbana–ChampaignĪllen Melnick Dorfman (Janu– January 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund.

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