Word: pendorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dorfman was convicted of accepting a kickback of $55,000 on a pension-fund loan and served nine months in jail. Last December, as a result of an FBI probe dubbed "Operation Pendorf' (for penetrate Dorfman), he and Teamsters President Roy Williams were convicted of conspiring to bribe former Democratic Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada in return for his putative help in blocking a trucking deregulation bill. Scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 10, Dorfman, 60, faced up to 55 years in prison...
...latest charges stem from "Operation Pendorf," an FBI investigation into labor racketeering. According to the indictment handed down by a Chicago federal grand jury, Williams, Chicago Insurance Broker Allen Dorfman and three others told Cannon that if he would delay consideration of a bill designed to deregulate trucking rates and routes, he would be allowed to buy some valuable Nevada property owned by the Teamsters pension fund. The deal never came off. Cannon voted for a weakened version of the trucking deregulation bill, which passed. The Justice Department has told the Senator that he will not be indicted...
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