The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a currency vault at Lufthansa's Kennedy Airport hangar on December 11th, 1978, which netted its perpetrators close to $6 million in untraceable bills and ...

"Goodfellas" is one of those films. It's based on the Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport, one of those crimes that continues to fascinate. At the time, Dec. 11, 1978, it was the largest cash robbery ...

Vincent Asaro, left , was arrested Thursday in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport. Thomas “Tommy D” Di Fiore, bottom right, was also busted on a sweeping racketeering ...

The Lufthansa heist was made famous by Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas," starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. Warner Brothers Accused “Goodfellas” mobster Vincent Asaro personally ...

A prosecutor called the $6 million Lufthansa terminal heist in 1978 the "score of scores" as the racketeering trial of alleged career mobster Vincent Asaro, the first organized crime figure ever ...

Louis Werner, who died in 2007, was the only one ever convicted for the Lufthansa heist. James Burke, the late gangster who planned the heist, was the only one convicted of a related homicide.

Now comes “The Lufthansa Heist.” Daniel Simone’s co-author is the caper’s mastermind, the late Henry Hill. Simone: “I lived nearby and, dating a Lufthansa stewardess, the story ...

Informants from 3 crime families point a finger at suspect Father and son plead not guilty to racketeering%2C extortion charges After 35 years, the daring Lufthansa heist of $6 million in cash and ...

Burke was big on loyalty and Sepe proved just that to him with his eventual involvement in the infamous heist. Though more than four decades have passed since the Lufthansa Heist gripped the ...

SOUTH OZONE PARK, Queens — The plot for the $6 million dollar Lufthansa cargo heist in 1978 was allegedly hatched in Robert’s Lounge, a bar on Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park.

Asaro, who seethed with anger during some prosecution witnesses’ testimony, was only the second person to be charged in the heist. The first was a Lufthansa employee who was convicted in 1979 of ...

The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a currency vault at Lufthansa's Kennedy Airport hangar on December 11th, 1978, which netted its perpetrators close to $6 million in untraceable bills and ...