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The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.
Burke was also later sentenced to life in prison for the murder of scam artist Richard Eaton. [31] Burke died of cancer while serving his life sentence, on April 13, 1996, at the age of 64. [32] [33] Paul Vario received four years for helping Henry Hill obtain a no-show job to get him paroled from prison.
James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time.
These 'modern musketeers' came together in an attempt to prove Richard Eaton innocent of the murder of his mother. In The Forbidden Territory (1933), the Duke, Richard Eaton and Simon Aron entered the Soviet Union to rescue Rex Van Ryn, who had been arrested. In the course of this adventure, they also rescued Princess Marie-Louise, who later ...
On Sept. 20, 1989, Ramirez was charged with 13 counts of murder, five counts of attempted murder, 11 counts of sexual assault and 14 counts of burglaries. He was given a total of 13 death sentences.
For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor’s office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and ...
The earliest known leader of the Lucchese family's Brooklyn crew was Salvatore "Don Turrido" Curiale, an immigrant from Agrigento, Sicily. [1] Curiale was an original Brooklyn mobster before the Commission was created and would later join the Lucchese crime family. [1]
Eaton, 48, a recent transplant to Burlington from Syracuse, New York, is charged with three counts of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of three young men of Palestinian descent in ...