Wednesday, January 18, 2006  Joseph "Joey The Clown" Lombardo
Joseph "Joey The Clown" Lombardo Joseph is an American mafioso
and high ranking member of the Chicago Outfit.  Born in 1929
Lombardo joined the Chicago Outfit in the 1950s. In 1963
Lombardo was arrested and charged with kidnapping however he was
later acquitted. Lombardo was again on trial in 1974 with Allen
Dorfman, an insurance agent, and charged with embezzling of $1.4
million from pension funds of the Teamsters Union. The charges
were later dropped after the main witness, Daniel Siefert, was
killed two days before his scheduled appearance.  In 1982
Lombardo and Dorfman were again charged with extortion of
$800,000 from construction owner Robert Kendler as well as, with
Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, attempted bribery of Nevada
Senator Howard W. Cannon.  Lombardo was later implicated, by
government informant Alva Johnson Rodgers, in the deaths of
Daniel Siefert and Robert Harder in 1974, Sam Annerino and
Raymond Ryan in 1977, and Allen Do