Goodfellas Suspects Arrested 35 Years After JFK Heist (2)
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg News
By Patricia Hurtado January 23, 2014
Five alleged members of a New York crime family were arrested by the U.S. in a case linked to the $5 million Lufthansa (LHA) heist in 1978 at John F. Kennedy International Airport recounted in the film Goodfellas.
The five men, who prosecutors say are members of the Bonanno crime family, were engaged in a racketeering conspiracy that dates back to Jan. 1, 1968, and continued as recently as June 30, 2013, according to an indictment unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
The conspiracy included acts of extortion, murder and the 1978 robbery of a Lufthansa Airlines plane at JFK in which about $5 million in U.S. currency and jewelry worth about $1 million was stolen.
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According to the book The Heist by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, the robbery was considered the greatest cash robbery in American history, larger than the armed hold-up of the Brinks Armored Car Co. in Boston in 1950, in which $2.7 million was stolen. The authors said it remained the largest U.S. cash robbery until December 1982, when a private armored car company in New York was robbed of nearly $11 million.
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aristocles
(594 posts)Born in Detroit. All of my uncles were "in the life". Only one died a natural death. One of them was a dead ringer for "Jimmy The Gent". All of his suits were bespoke. Drove nothing but Cadillacs. Every time we met he'd give me a silver dollar. They're in my safety dosit box now.
Javaman
(62,435 posts)my uncle had a bar in Bed-Sty that was a "front".
He would always give my brother and I a silver dollar.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Skittles
(152,963 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,397 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)According to wikipedia, "...if a defendant commits a series of illegal acts against another person, or, in criminal law, if someone commits a continuing crime (like molesting a child over a long period of time, which can be charged as a single offense), the period of limitation may begin to run from the last act in the series. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_limitations
So because this is a racketeering case, they can lump in every offense during the entire period of the crimes. It sounds like a great way to clear out your unsolved backlog.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)up...the indictments will be fresh.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)AnneD
(15,774 posts)When would the Cubs win the series,
Where is Amelia Earhart's body,
Where is Jimmy Hoffa.
One became known recently and before I die, I would like to know the answer to the other 2.
I always figured Hoffa is the basis of some concrete building in New Jursee. Maybe the Washington Bridge.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,359 posts)alp227
(31,959 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)First, who the fuck cares?
Second, what was the cost of this investigation?
Third, it looks like one of those FBI agents probably wasn't born when the crime was committed.
Fourth, who the fuck cares?
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Paladin
(28,202 posts)I'd love to talk to Scorsese about this.....