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Pressure is nonetheless building for Sporkin to go slow. In a recent letter to Senator William Proxmire, Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson was worried about the SEC's "expansive definition of materiality," meaning its prosecution of bribery and kickback cases. That drew a sharp reply from SEC Chairman Roderick Hills, and Richardson backed off -at least temporarily. Characteristically, Sporkin wants to expand his job even further: "We've seen the worst of the overseas scandals but I'm afraid only the beginning of straightforward, old-fashioned bribery and embezzlement here at home. There...
Even if the alleged kickback actually took place, it would be very difficult for Harvard to prove, since $4,000 in cash can be easily hidden and would probably not noticeably alter the lifestyle of anyone accepting...
...benefit golf tournament at the La Costa country club in Carlsbad, Calif. The entourage that appeared for the former President's "coming out" was intriguing. Tournament participants included Anthony Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters; Allen Dorfman, convicted in 1972 for accepting a kickback from a union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with...
...Mafia: Frank Fitzsimmons, William Presser, Frank Ranney and Roy Williams. In practice, say federal investigators, just who gets money is determined by the union trustees; they are influenced heavily by Allen Dorfman, once a special consultant to the fund until he was convicted of accepting a $55,000 kickback from a borrower and went to prison for eight months. He was forced to sever his Teamster connections, but he still calls many shots...
Federal investigators suspect that Hoffa may have been murdered to keep him from interfering with kickbacks flowing to underworld brokers of loans from the Central States' pension fund. On the day of his disappearance, Hoffa was scheduled to have lunch with two Mafiosi: Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters, and Detroit's Anthony ("Tony Jack") Giacalone. Investigators believe that on the agenda was a $3 million loan from the fund that the Mafia was trying to arrange for a "recreation center" in Detroit. On some previous loans from the fund, Mob figures...