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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$27.6 million in 2023) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed on American soil at the time. [ 1][ 2]
The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Simone in collaboration with Henry Hill. It was published by Lyons Press , an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield , on August 1, 2015.
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. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
By Chris Francescani (Reuters) - Five people said to be part of a New York crime family were arrested on Thursday, including a 78-year-old man accused of participating in a notorious 1978 airport ...
Thomas DeSimone. Thomas DeSimone (May 24, 1950 – disappeared January 14, 1979) was an American criminal associated with New York City 's Lucchese crime family who is alleged to have participated in both the Air France robbery and the Lufthansa heist. He also committed numerous murders, including killing William "Billy Batts" Bentvena in 1970.
82nd Airborne Division. Henry Hill Jr. (June 11, 1943 – June 12, 2012) was an American mobster who was associated with the Lucchese crime family of New York City from 1955 until 1980, when he was arrested on narcotics charges and became an FBI informant. Hill testified against his former Mafia associates, resulting in 50 convictions ...
Five men getting charged with the 1978 Lufthansa robbery at Kennedy Airport, a man getting 18 months in the clink for drunk dialing the FBI with a fake hijacking threat and a U.S. woman likely ...
The Air France robbery was a major robbery that took place in April 1967, when associates of the Lucchese crime family stole $420,000 ($2.93 million in 2023 [ 1]) from the Air France cargo terminal at New York City 's JFK International Airport. While there were many cargo thefts at JFK airport in 1967, [ 2] this was the largest cash robbery ...