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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.
On March 22, 1990, Ferrara was indicted on racketeering and related charges with six other alleged members and an associate of the Patriarca Family. More specifically, Ferrara, Raymond J. Patriarca, J.R. Russo, Robert Carrozza, Dennis Lepore, Carmen Tortora, Pasquale Barone and Angelo Mercurio, who was, significantly, a fugitive, were charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
Richard Ferrara — former capo of a Brooklyn crew, Ferrara was indicted on September 14, 2021, along with several members of the family. [70] He was released on bond on January 7, 2022 after putting up $10 million secured by three shopping centers on the Jersey Shore that he co-owns with his brother.
In 1990, Ferrara was indicted on racketeering and pleaded guilty to ordering the October 28, 1985, murder of mob associate Jimmy Limoli and other racketeering charges. [88] In 2005, Ferrara's lawyer had the charge of Limoli's murdered removed and had six years removed from his prison sentence.
The state executed Bowman for the 2001 murder of 21-year-old Kandee Martin, a young mother who was killed five days before her son's second birthday. People 19 hours ago
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 ...
Akron Police Department Detectives James Pasheilich goes through photographs in the case files of murder victim Leslie Barker Wednesday, June 16, 2021 in Akron, Ohio. Barker was murdered in 1978,
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 ...