Posted on 10/19/2015 1:50:58 PM PDT by ETL
Reputed mobster pleads not guilty in 1978 Lufthansa heist that netted $5.8M
NEW YORK - More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6 million airport heist dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie “Goodfellas,” an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York City home on Thursday and charged in the robbery and a 1969 murder.
Vincent Asaro, 78, was named along with his son, Jerome, and three other defendants in wide-ranging indictment alleging murder, robbery, extortion, arson and other crimes from the late 1960s through last year. The Asaros, both identified as captains in the Bonanno organized crime family, pleaded not guilty through their attorneys and were ordered held without bail at a brief appearance in federal court in Brooklyn.
The elder Asaro’s attorney, Gerald McMahon, told reporters outside court that his client was framed by shady turncoat gangsters, including former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino - the highest-ranking member of the city’s five organized crime families to break the mob’s vow of silence.
Massino “is one of the worst witnesses I’ve ever seen,” McMahon said. He added that Asaro had given him “marching orders” that “there will be no plea and he will walk out the door a free man.”
A lawyer for Jerome Asaro declined comment. ...”
Defendants in ‘Goodfellas’ Lufthansa heist make shackled court appearance
Four reputed mobsters, with an average age of 65, came to the routine court appearance in shackles and chains. ...”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/19/goodfellas-lufthansa-heist-court-appearance-new-york
“Jimmy I want my money!”.
"I've been tellin' ya for forty years now. Don't buy anything. Don't get anything. Especially nothing flashy or big. Haven't you been hearing what I've been saying all these years? Why not? You're going to get us all pinched, that's why. What are you, stupid?
That isn't even small change compared to what politicians and UN officials steal.
That was $6 million in 1972; adjust for inflation...
“What did I tell you.....Don’t buy anything!”
“I thought he’d never shut the .... up.”
Poor Morrie never got paid.
Poor Stacks.
I could never listen to “Layla” quite the same way ever again.
Salerno’s was also within 3 blocks of where I lived at the time. I think it’s a Mexican restaurant now. Most Italians have deserted NYC.
I don’t think inflation would quite catch it up to $6 billion missing from the State Dept. or the hundreds of millions skimmed off of the Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq. A program coincidentally initiated by Slick Willie Clinton.
Danny DeVito wears wire in SNL skit.
https://screen.yahoo.com/jon-lovitz-snl-skits/wired-danny-000000907.html
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