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Mobster acquitted in 'Goodfellas' heist gets prison in arson
ABC News ^
| 12/28/2017
| larry neumeister, associated press
Posted on 12/29/2017 4:38:30 PM PST by packrat35
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A legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie "Goodfellas" came back to haunt an 82-year-old mobster on Thursday, when a judge cited evidence of his role in it while sentencing him to eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson.
Vincent Asaro, balding and bespectacled, reacted to the sentence with disgust.
"I don't care what happens to me at this point," he grumbled.
He looked at U.S. District Judge Allyne R. Ross, saying: "What you sentenced me to is a death sentence anyway."
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To: packrat35
Was he Jimmy “Two Times”?
“I’m going to burn the car.....burn the car.”
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posted on
12/29/2017 5:43:31 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Eddie01
Is this the guy who bought the Cadillac or the one who bought his wife a mink?Neither. Both of those guys got whacked.
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posted on
12/29/2017 5:54:46 PM PST
by
Maceman
(We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
To: SamAdams76
>>He wasnt sentenced for the crime he was acquitted of. He was sentenced for a different, more recent, crime.
“... a judge cited evidence of his role in it while sentencing him...”
It WAS a factor in the sentencing.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:13:17 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: packrat35
I’d guess that there’s more crooked, thieving mobsters in the federal judiciary than in the Mafia.
To: Leaning Right
"Remember, this road rage involved setting a car on fire. Eight years for a carefully planned arson seems about right. " All he had to do was claim he was a French moslem with cultural rights.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:34:47 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: Leaning Right
"Remember, this road rage involved setting a car on fire. Eight years for a carefully planned arson seems about right. " All he had to do was claim he was a French moslem with cultural rights.
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posted on
12/29/2017 6:34:48 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: Leaning Right
To: Eddie01
Henry Hill said before he died that no one involved in the heist was still alive. Asaro was acquitted, after all. From what I could find, he wasn’t portrayed at all in the Goodfellas movie.
To: SamAdams76
The judge said she reviewed evidence from the trial she had presided over and cited proof Asaro had participated in a 1969 murder and had admitted his role and obtained jewelry from the armed robbery of more than $6 million in cash and jewelry from the Lufthansa terminal.
This was in the story, and looks like it might have been used in sentencing, but it's not really clear.
I wondered why the judge would use it if he was found not guilty ? Sentenced by the same judge that presided over the trial in which he was found not guilty ?...beautiful.
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posted on
12/29/2017 7:25:48 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(Best.Election.of.All-Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: OKSooner
# 19 OKSooner wrote: Frankie Five Angels? In one of the greatest scenes in one of the greatest films ever, Michael V. Gazzo ['Gazzo was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Frank Pentangelli in The Godfather Part II. He lost to Robert De Niro, who played Vito Corleone in the same film.]
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posted on
12/29/2017 8:01:01 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: packrat35
Paulie: “Charlie! They took my thumb! I thought he was joking, like when we were kids and Uncle Joey said he was going to pull his thumb off, yeah? But then they grab my hand and one of them pulled my thumb off!”
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posted on
12/29/2017 9:19:25 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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