The Riviera, promoted as FUN around the clock!, maintains its ambience of festivityJuliet Prowse in the Versailles Room; the Vagabonds, the Personalities, the Tunesters in the Starlight Room. They asked me to. It was the simple truth. The item reported the ejection of the actor Gary Merrill from an affair at the Mocambo. Together, they were the triumvirate of absolute power in Hollywood. I dont think he wanted to be seen there, and I dont think he wanted them seen at his law office at 134 North LaSalle. In January 1950, following a narcotics bust by a lieutenant of the Illinois state attorneys office, he was sentenced to a year in the House of Correction. In America, Unterwelt and Mafia were one, and it was in organized crime that the myth of the great American melting pot became reality. Sometimes I tell people thats why Im still alive. In Vegas, I had bodyguards around me at all times. Also, if you haven't done so already, may I suggest seeking out articles by Victor Reisel. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. Allen Melnick Dorfman[2] (January 6, 1923 January 20, 1983) was an American insurance agency owner and a consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Central States Pension Fund. All the great old-timers were out for this party, all in wonderful glittering dresses, and Billy Wilder and George Burns and that whole era of the 90-year-olds. Few party girls mingle. : Paul "Red" Dorfman Teamsters Union Thug Jimmy Hoffa Associate. The marriage soon ended in divorce, but the couple remarried in 1969. [18][19], Dorfman attended the University of Illinois and taught physical education there. Accardo expanded the mob's hegemony from Chicago into Las Vegas. Mafia. Though he was the most legendary lawyer in Hollywood, he never opened a law office in Los Angeles or bothered with a license to practice in the state of California. By 1950 Ziffren and his friends were all in L.A., as were guys like Rosselli. At the time, Korshak was out of town, serving in the army as a military instructor at Camp Lee, Virginia. Torrio took control of Chicago through 1925, when, following an attempt on his life and a stretch in jail, he retired to New York, where he became the eminence grise, elder statesman, and adviser to a group of younger men that included Frank Costello, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky. When Korshak emerged, Robb followed him to a mailbox, where old Sidney stopped to mail a letter. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries It gave me the creeps, if you want to know the truth. He had been a member of the Hollywood law firm of Bautzer, Grant, Youngman and Silbert. Even in Beverly Hills terms, it seemed inconceivable that Korshak had not left behind wealth untold. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. Weiner was not injured in the incident. I spent most of my time in the powder room, she told me. Yes, she said, she had redone the Sinatra home, but this was nothing new: she had worked as a designer for 25 years, and had done all the Sinatra homes since Franks marriage to Barbara. . He said that when he wrote The Godfather,I had never heard of Sidney Korshak. Like so much else in the novel and the movie, it was a fanciful and romantic figment that the imagination of America accepted as fact. He dresses well, in the manner of one who believes that in the big race it is ultimately the conservative who scores. Are you kidding, Roemer? So where does the fable of Sidney Korshak end? One peddled escape through flickering fable, the other through dope and booze and broads. Lombardo was convicted of Seifert's murder in 2007 as a result of Operation Family Secrets. When he died, on January 20, 1996, at his home in Beverly Hills, the truth remained largely unknown. Bondsmen, to pay back favors, had parties once a month, and they had all the girls there, and the booze and what have you, and their favorite judges and lawyers and policemen would be at these things. The San Francisco Chronicle, in an article on Nov. 18, 1996, described him as "a leading figure in the Chicago mob" who "ran the Waste Handlers Union in Chicago in 1939 with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald's future killer." It was Korshak whom Walter OMalley, the Dodgers president, had called in to prevent an opening-day strike by Teamsters parking-lot attendants at the new Dodger Stadium in 1962. As Roemer knew, Lawfords wife was Patricia Kennedy, one of Jack and Bobby Kennedys sisters. He made a living as a "confidence man," a jewel thief, and a heroin dealer. In Hollywood, the man who kept an eye on her for Zwillman was Johnny Rosselli, a Capone man before he joined forces with Jack Dragna, L.A.s pre-eminent criminal presence. Sorry, the quality is not that great. But he had grown up, according to Richard Lindberg, in a Jewish neighborhood right along Roosevelt Road, just a little bit west of Maxwell Street. He was at the ball games all the time. Indicted along with Dorfman were Joseph Lombardo (aka "Joey the Clown"), Anthony Spilotro ("The Ant"), Irwin Weiner, and several others. The prefix, 92, Roemer explained, designated racketeering; the number 789 was an identifying number assigned sequentially. Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. Harry Cohn and Mickey Cohen were born to Russian Jews in New York, and both went young to California. Ruby's expulsion as head of the Waste Materials Handlers Union effectively paved the way for Dorfman's rise in the union. , Print length I first met him in 1933 in Chicago at the Worlds Fair, and we buddied around, he told me. We all looked the same. Where does the truth begin? Korshak strides across the lobby of the Riviera on a hot autumn day and Jimmy Hoffa steps silently aside. That was the first house I ever went to in my life where there was a guard with a gun at the door, Dunne said. Between 1959 and 1969, the Central States Pension Fund Plan loans had gone unpaid. Assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby, who ran errands for the Chicago mob and was an enforcer-recruiter in Chicago's Local 20467 of the Scrap Iron and Junk Handler's Union, run by Paul Red Dorfman, made a telephone call to Chicago money investor for the Chicago mob, union official and former bail bondsman Irwin Weiner, who was dubbed by . In mob jargon, this was the who once almost broke my jaw in 'cutout. Irving Cutler, the author of The Jews of Chicago, told me of Guziks storming into the office of the Jewish Daily Forward one day, raising hell about a piece implying that he was a gangster. It invoked the myth and mystery of the man believed to have represented Mafia law west of Chicago, the man believed to have controlled the inner workings of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and God only knows what else. But he remembered that ole buttermilk sky. Greg Bautzer of the firm was also a Korshak associate. By then Bluhdorn was involved with the infamous Sicilian financier Michele Sindona, who would die in prison under mysterious circumstances. Korshak, Anhalt said, was very mellow, with none of the airs of a gangster. The pineapple, nicknamed Little Al, worked for nearly six years, including the summer of 1965. Could it be a reference to Hy "Red" Larner a mobster who reported to Chicago mobster Sam Giancana and first came to the attention of law enforcement in the 1950s when he was identified at Senate racketeering hearings as a mob higher-up. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. Senator Kefauver paid a chilly little social call on Stevenson last week. Joe Glaser was a fight promoter and fight fixer for the Capone Mob. Among them was Charles Cherry Nose Gioe, a 35-year-old cohort of Tony Accardo, who had been involved in the original IATSE-takeover plans. It was flatter there, and he wanted to go for walks. Dominick Dunne, who moved west in 1957, remembers first encountering Sidney Korshak several years later at the home of Paul Ziffren, the entertainment lawyer and former assistant U.S. attorney who was once considered to be the most important force in the California Democratic Party. His legend beguiled the legendary. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Twentieth-century organized crime in America was a primarily Jewish-Italian coalition that shared the sensibilities but lacked the ethnic purity of the true Sicilian Mafia. Except for Variety, the national media had ignored Bioffs testimony about him. Born in Poland on 22 May 1901. My life changed. dispatch, grasping for details of the activities of the ever more elusive Korshak, reports that he was present at the opening performance of the Debbie Reynolds show at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January, 1963.), The veteran director George Sidneys wife, Corinne, grew up in Brentwood as the daughter of a prominent criminal-trial attorney, Carl S. Kegley. Zeller, who worked for 14 years as a government liaison and personal adviser to four Teamster presidents, told me that virtually every Teamster leader on the West Coast, in the Western Conference, answered to Sidney Korshak.. Ordinarily, Jimmy Hoffa would never sit in the front seat. Any message he might deliver to you is a message from us.. It is likely that Dorfman served as a liaison between Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and key Chicago politicians and administrators. You didnt hear any forceful statements out of him. . Thats when I first became aware of Korshak, Bacon said. In the real and far more incredible world of Sidney Korshak and his associates, things are more complex. They called themselves the connection guys. They were the ties between those in the shadows and those in the light. In this respect he reminded Anhalt of Frank Costello, whom Anhalt also met: Neither did Costello have any image like that. Allen is meek and Allen is harmless. They had three sons. ", Dorfman was eventually indicted, along with several other Teamsters leaders, for embezzlement from the union pension fund, in 1970. Korshak also parlayed that publicity into local celebrity. Alan King portrayed a character named Andy Stone in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino. According to Richard Lindberg, the author of Chicago by Gaslight, Jake Guzik and his brother Harry were already working for Colosimo as pimps and brothel keepers by 1910, the year that the lavish Colosimos Caf opened on South Wabash. Evidence presented to the Committee showed, on the other hand, that while the Dorfmans had proposed a 17.5% fee to the Fund, they had actually been paid only 7.6%, in line with prevailing rates in the industry, over the previous eight years. He was alleged to be a narcotic addict and somewhat of a confidence man. Dorfman's son, Allen, was an insurance company executive. Willie, he said, meet Sidney Korshak. All-powerful or legal automaton controlled by others. My pastimes include selling books on EBay, genealogical research, baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates), collecting antique furniture and coins, and spending time with Kingsley, my cocker spaniel. At night there are few whom the city cannot bring to awe. He was a robust, tall good dresser. Wherebetween the little baby who always tried to help people and the man who was the most important contact that the Mob had to legitimate business, labor, Hollywood, and Las Vegasdoes the real Sidney Korshak lurk? According to the document, Irv asked if Red knew Ruby. In 1985 the same commission rejected the Hilton corporations application primarily because Hilton had kept Korshak on the payroll for 13 years. Los Angeles, where nothing was real, was a good place to pretend to be an illusion. He was just a real elegant man., Sidney Korshak and Lew Wasserman, Rothman said, were two of a kind, but Sidney negotiated more as the lawyer and Lew negotiated as the party to the negotiations. In a manner of speaking, Sidney Korshak owned not only the Riviera, he owned Jimmy Hoffa too. Roemer suggested that, if this were true, perhaps he should be talking to Korshaks wife, Bernice. The "Test Fleet" prosecution resulted in a hung jury in December 1962. [11] He 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. The ungodly expanse of neon, incandescent bulbs, Plexiglas, and sheet metal that is the faade of the Stardust, more than 200 feet across, will, as if by fiat lux of some Demiurge-in-Shades, become nothing less than its own dazzling, lurid galaxy. With a new strike, against Paramount theaters, in the fall of 1935, IATSE dealt its first blow. Marshall was an important legislator and politician, Bill Roemer told me, and, of course, we always felt that he was put in there because he was the younger brother of Sidney.. And that her liver was badly damaged. Then again, it may be true, as has been asserted, that the real purpose of Korshaks meeting was blackmail. The locals had lost their autonomy, and union members who dared to protest ended up out of work and often beaten up. Infamous Sicilian financier Michele Sindona, who had been a member of the of. Thats when I first met him in 1933 in Chicago at the games... 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