According to Dan Moldea, the author of Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, it was Glaser who introduced Stein to Korshak. thick necked tough guy, indeed, . Korshak not only prevented the strike but had the parking concession awarded by OMalley to a new outfit, Affiliated Parking, connected with a different Teamsters local. He always tried to help people. In the fall of 1957, when the New York state police busted a conclave of 70 Mob leaders who had converged for a national conference at the country home of the Sicilian-born president of the Canada Dry Bottling Company, the ensuing headlines rendered Hoovers position untenable. He was not a drinking man, and he didnt smoke. People of my caliber dont do nice things.. Producer Robert Evans was a regular at Korshaks parties. It was with a splash of glamour that Chicago at large came to know him. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. He made a living as a "confidence man," a jewel thief, and a heroin dealer. As far as underworld figures go, as far as Hollywood potentates go, even as far as lawyers go, the name of Sidney Korshak meant little to the masses. I think they met surreptitiously., There were, however, veiled references to Korshak, as well as equally cryptic telephone messages left at his office by callers from Celanos. As Corinne speaks, her three poodles yap incessantly. Yeah. It happens to be the feast day of Saint Teresa, who tasted the great love of God with an open mouth, and Dions Runaround Sue is rising fast on the charts. Jimmy Hoffa and Jack Ruby. So was Korshak. Gus Greenbaum, the manager of the Riviera, was murdered in his bed, his throat cut from ear to ear, in 1958. Dorfman said no, I don't know any Jack Ruby. For the rest of his life, he shunned all publicity, and for more than a quarter of a century his name and image all but vanished from public awareness. 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. . In a 1978 report, California state attorney general Evelle Younger included Korshak in a well-publicized list of organized-crime figures with ties to California. It was flatter there, and he wanted to go for walks. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. and killed assassin Lee Harvey Handlers Union 20467 was taken Oswald in the cellar of the Dallas' . He was invaluable. All his life, I said, all around him, they went down in their own blood. [17][pageneeded] Dorfman was subsequently convicted in December 1982, along with Teamsters president Roy Lee Williams and Chicago Outfit enforcer Joseph Lombardo, of conspiring to bribe Howard Cannon, the Democratic Senator from Nevada, to oppose deregulation of the over-the-road trucking industry. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. You never heard any profanity out of Sidney. Please try again. Paul "Red" Dorfman was the head of the Chicago Waste Handler's Union and a kingpin in the Chicago Outfit,[7] who in 1959 was described by Congressional investigators "as the link between the Teamsters Union and the Chicago underworld. [13][14][15], By 1977, Dorfman had lost control of the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund due to the implementation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and subsequent increases in outside control of the Fund.[16]. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. The marriage soon ended in divorce, but the couple remarried in 1969. I have been writing on Wikipedia for years and have begun to writeebooks. There is clear evidence that Jack Ruby had connections to "Red" Dorfman when Ruby lived in Chicago. Among those interrogated was the paroled Cherry Nose Gioe, who was Korshaks neighbor at the exclusive Seneca. Alan King portrayed a character named Andy Stone in the 1995 Martin Scorsese film Casino. Ray Ryan was there. She brought him together with Dalitz, who gave him his first payoff. The alliances president, George Browne, had been one of the Chicago Mobs second-rate local leaders. Sidney, said the friend, was just a bastard who asked his mistresses to family parties. It had the look of a terrific marriage. A friend of Bees saw a union that was not so terrific. Silence on the subject of Sidney Korshak among those who knew him is pervasive. The trial got under way on October 5, 1943. When Kerkorian sold his Vegas interests, it would be to the Hilton organization, whose executive vice president of the casino-hotel division had ties to Lansky, Dalitz, and Red Dorfmans stepson, Allen. There were those whisperings about him. If you didnt know who he was, youd think he was a pants manufacturer or something., Irv Kupcinet, whose first column appeared in 1943, told me last summer over lunch in Chicago that he knew Korshak for about 50 years. As a friend, the attorney was a man who could turn more tricks with a telephone call than anyone I knew. Professionally, he was not beyond using his labor negotiations to strike up deals. On the morning of June 29, a rush of seven such suits were filed before the ban went into effect. , Print length But Korshaks voice was not among those heard. In March 1943, grand-jury indictments for violations of federal racketeering statutes were returned against Frank Nitti, Paul Ricca, Johnny Rosselli, Cherry Nose Gioe, and several others. When The Wall Street Journal reported the takeover the following month, it described Korshak as a sort of catalytic agent who is excluded from the group which purchased Hughes stock., This group included Ralph Stolkin, the Chicago businessman who built an empire upon the foundation of a yokel gambling devicethe punchboard. Stolkins father-in-law, Abe Koolish, who had been indicted in 1948 for running a mail-order-insurance racket, and Ray Ryan, an oilman who had been a business associate of Frank Costellos, were also included. He was not an admitted California lawyer, Rothman said, and he referred a considerable amount of legal business to me. Rothman found Korshak to have a stern exterior but to be very warm, very gracious, very thoughtful. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Sidneys own career as a city lawyer, however, did not last long. Moe Dalitz represented the Cleveland-based, predominantly Italian Mayfield Road Gang and its predominantly Jewish counterpart, the Cleveland Syndicate. Paul Dorfman became associated with Hoffa early on in the scheme of things. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. : Across the road, to the left, the Hacienda, the Strips southernmost joint, can barely be glimpsed. He is a tall man in his early 50s. Dorfman was an operative for Al Capone and later became a friend and associate of Jimmy Hoffa. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. It was in Kupcinets Sun-Times Kups Column that the Korshak-engineered takeover of RKO from Howard Hughes was revealed in September 1952. But the people behind him are not meek and they are not harmless. One became the fearsome head of Columbia Pictures, the other the fearsome renegade of Hollywood crime. , File size The Ziffrens, Dunne told me, had this fantastic beach house, and they used to give these Sunday-night parties, and this one was, I think, being given for the writer Romain Gary, who was the French consul in L.A., and his wife, Jean Seberg the actress, you know, who later had that terrible death. (She committed suicide after years of F.B.I. And the Central States Pension Fund, says Neff, "had loaned money, sometimes with disastrous results, to the neon lords of the Aladdin, Caesar's Palace, Circus Circus, the Desert Inn, the Fremont, the Lodestar, the . Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. The deal would be mediated, in the fall of 1973, by their mutual friend Sidney Korshak. The screenwriter Edward Anhalt remembers a night in Daves Blue Room in 1946. He is our man. Ivana Marie Zelnkov escaped from behind the Iron Curtain to storm New York City and help create the twisted miracle of Donald Trump. 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." Theyre one of Hollywoods brightest starsand most troubled actors. Chicagos stranglehold on Hollywood seemed invincible. When I was a little girl, she told me, my sister and I had these little identical pleated red skirts and red Dutch hats. Tom Courtney, his endorser, was a states attorney whose reign on the West Side was maintained in close cahoots with Guzik and other underworld figures. Sidney Korshak, the guy in the car that is the shimmer with which we began, was a son of that diaspora, and of that embrace. Technically, Paul Dorfman was Allen's step-father. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. During his career he was closely tied to Teamsters Union President James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa and Jack Ruby. Imagine a tale never meant to be told. He became the last witness to be called before the grand jury, yet remained a stand-up guy When the indictments came down, a separate charge of perjury was announced against him. Paul "Red" Dorfman was affiliated with the Waste Materials Handlers Union in Chicago in the late 1930s and 1940s. And thus the Times of Los Angeles: SIDNEY KORSHAK, ALLEGED MAFIA LIAISON TO HOLLYWOOD, DIES AT 88. But despite his later puritanical leanings, Hoffa had a mistress named Sylvia Pagano. He and Bernice would move into the Seneca, at 200 East Chestnut Street, a 16-story luxury property owned by the Mob financier Alex Louis Greenberg, who would be slain in 1956, two years after a confidential source advised the F.B.I. As reported many years later by Seymour Hersh of The New York Times, One trusted Korshak friend and business associate recalled in an interview that shortly after the committees visit Mr. Korshak had shown him infrared photographs of Senator Kefauver in an obviously compromising position with a young woman. According to Hershs source, A woman had been supplied by the Chicago underworld and a camera had been planted in the Senators room at the Drake Hotel to photograph her with Mr. Kefauver.. Until his death last. Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Imagine a shimmering web of complexities dissolving ultimately into darkness. Sidney Korshak, who lived unseen in the unseen heart of the beast, and who at the same time entertained beautifully in Bel Air. Sidney Korshak escapedno, prevailed, prospered, in blessed fortunewithout so much as a scratch. An editorial remarked: Attorney Korshaks status as joint guest of honor with Col. Arvey is interesting. 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