At 3 a.m., six masked men stormed the loading bay, tied up 10 Lufthansa employees and loaded 40 parcels of cash into a van. But the plot soon unraveled when the van driver failed to destroy the van.

NEW YORK | The robbery crew that pulled off one of the biggest heists in U.S. history — the $6 million Lufthansa theft immortalized in "Goodfellas" — was elated at ...

The famous 1978 Lufthansa robbery is a great crime story — it was even a plot point in GoodFellas. But a new book about the heist falls flat,... Share by Sarah D. Bunting Aug, 06 2015 Image: ...

A frail-looking Asaro finally emerged from the shadows after his arrest last year and will go on trial Monday on charges he pocketed a cut of the $6 million Lufthansa robbery at Kennedy Airport in ...

Asaro and Ragano were videotaped together at Bam’s Auto Body at 86-11 Liberty Avenue on June 17, 2013, a key date in the new Lufthansa heist investigation. That’s the day FBI agents dug up a victim ...

Vincent Asaro, a member of the Bonanno organized crime family, is charged with participating in a 1978 heist wherein a crew of masked men stole $6 million in cash and jewelry from a Lufthansa ...

The story of one of the mobsters who masterminded the heist, Henry Hill, became the basis for the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas. Hill became an informant against the mafia in the 1980s.

It may not come close to the haul pulled from the 1978 Lufthansa Heist, but in this era of escalating egg prices in New Jersey and throughout the country, the theft of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania ...

On this day, Dec. 11, in 1978, masked men robbed the Lufthansa cargo area at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and made off with $5.8 million in cash and jewelry, the largest cash ...

It may not come close to the haul pulled from the 1978 Lufthansa Heist, but in this era of escalating egg prices in New Jersey and throughout the country, the theft of 100,000 eggs in Pennsylvania ...