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1 posted on 10/19/2015 1:50:58 PM PDT by ETL
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CBS/AP January 23, 2014:

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. ...”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged-bonanno-crime-family-member-arrested-in-1978-lufthansa-heist-that-netted-58m/

2 posted on 10/19/2015 1:52:17 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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3 posted on 10/19/2015 1:52:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Feb 2014...

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

4 posted on 10/19/2015 1:54:30 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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“Jimmy I want my money!”.


6 posted on 10/19/2015 1:59:39 PM PDT by AU72
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...$6m Lufthansa robbery at Kennedy Airport in 1978 – one of the largest cash thefts in American history.

That isn't even small change compared to what politicians and UN officials steal.

8 posted on 10/19/2015 2:05:06 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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“What did I tell you.....Don’t buy anything!”


12 posted on 10/19/2015 2:15:50 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Poor Morrie never got paid.


14 posted on 10/19/2015 2:17:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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Danny DeVito wears wire in SNL skit.

https://screen.yahoo.com/jon-lovitz-snl-skits/wired-danny-000000907.html


20 posted on 10/19/2015 2:29:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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John Gotti killed mobster played by Joe Pesci in 'Goodfellas' [Tommy DeSimone]
New York Post ^
| By Bill Sanderson July 12, 2015 | Bill Sanderson

It was time for Tommy ­DeSimone to die.

The mobster — famously portrayed by Joe Pesci in "Goodfellas" — killed two made men, tried to rape the wife of his gangster pal Henry Hill and stupidly lifted his ski mask during 1978’s historic $6 million Lufthansa heist.

So John Gotti took care of it — personally.

The handsome capo used a silencer-equipped Colt .38 to shoot DeSimone three times in the skull in January 1979 in the basement of an Italian restaurant on Arthur Avenue in The Bronx, says an upcoming book, “The Lufthansa Heist,” written by Hill and journalist Daniel Simone.

It’s the first time the details of Gotti’s role in the death of the 28-year-old psychopath have been revealed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

21 posted on 10/19/2015 2:33:12 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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Maury’s cousin snitched?

So much for da good old days.


27 posted on 10/19/2015 2:49:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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Thomas DeSimone
Tommy ­"Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone
(played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas)

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Henry Hill
(played by Ray Liotta in film)

Jimmy Burke Jimmy burke:
Jimmy "The Gent" Burke
(played by Robert De Niro)

Tommy Desimone Tommy desimone (tommy de vito
Paul Vario
(played by Paul Sorvino)

29 posted on 10/19/2015 2:54:11 PM PDT by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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No statute of limitations?


31 posted on 10/19/2015 3:31:27 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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I still consider Joe Pesci’s performance in Goodfella’s to be the single best acting performance I’ve ever seen in anything! He made me nervous!


33 posted on 10/19/2015 3:48:07 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (I will not worship at the alter of Diversity.)
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