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They could have just watched Goodfellas. Henry Hill & Jimmy Burke are "gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it".
You have to love the pre-dawn show raids. If the feds had mailed these guys postcards, they would have shown up. It's not like they've been hiding for 30 years.
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anyone here that remembers this from when it actually happened?
As post #2 noted, it was big at the time. The movie made it legendary.
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any thoughts about this and law enforcement in NYC?
It's a fed thing now. The suspects were developed relatively quickly. Making a convincing case is harder. The moral is, "Be careful what you talk about." Bragging about something, whether or not you were actually involved, is hard to deny, when it's your voice on the tape in court, even 30 years later.
I had a summer job in '78 at JFK and the hangout for airport employees was a bar called The Owl. I wonder if I was ever there with any of the guys who pulled the heist.
I remember when it all happened. One of the guys had a bar on Lefferts Blvd. The Feds raided it and dug it up looking for bodies (all they found were dog bones). The owner sued the Feds and used the money to create an after-hours place downstairs, complete with slot machines!
Martinjsxx ---- I remember The Owl! Yeah, you probably were there with a few of them. LOL!!!!
Goodfellas crew
“Based on all my research, Asaro was not involved. Hill was not aware that there was anyone left alive that was involved with the heist. The only possibility is that Asaro might have had a crime stake at the airport and may have demanded a tribute [a cut of the deal] from Jimmy Burke.”
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