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have used union benefit funds as personal banks and
venture capital to finance criminal enterprises.
Murdered Teamster President James Hoffa shared
pension fund kickbacks with Allen Dorfman, the former
asset manager and convicted service provider to the
Teamsters Centrdl States Pension Fund.
Hoffa and Dorfman were also the moving forces
behind the Central States Pension Fund entry int.o specu­
lative real estate loans in Las Vegas, a move which
would eventually rob the Teamsters of tens of millions
of dollars -- of pension fund dollars and result in the
Government's decision to place the funds in receivership.
Yet the mob's desire to plunder the Central States
Pension Fund continued unabated.
At a meeting in 1979 at the Crown Center
Hotel in Kansas City, the head of the Kansas City mob,
Nick Cive11a, met with Central States Fund Representa­
tives Allen Dorfman and Sol Schwartz and chicago mob
member Joey Lombardo. In their discussion concerning
regaining control of the Fund from the Government's
asset managers, Joey Lombardo was overheard to say:
"We have got a lot of work to do. We havp
got to get the Fund back, get good lawyers.
Got moves to make, a lot of scheming to do.
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