He was eventually placed into the lunch room alongside his colleagues and the bandits drove the van inside the facility. The Lufthansa heist orchestrated by mobster Vincent Asaro was depicted in ...

They suspected the van, reported stolen from Queens ... Bonanno capo Vincent Asaro will go on trial for his role in the Lufthansa heist, the only mobster ever charged with the spectacular heist.

James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, the mastermind behind the 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK airport ... “And we loaded everything into the van,” Gaspare testified. “It was euphoria.

They drove to a side gate leading to the Lufthansa terminal ... Down to the next person and unloaded the van," Valenti said. Asaro left to take Burke and heist member Angelo Sepe to a halfway ...

The infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist became a case so cold that investigators ... Police Officer Joseph Rossi guards stolen van used by gunmen to haul $5.8 million in loot from JFK International ...

Meanwhile, the van positioned itself inside a gated area ... Louis Werner, who died in 2007, was the only one ever convicted for the Lufthansa heist. James Burke, the late gangster who planned ...

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 ... a stolen van to the bar where ...

Not only did NYPD find the van Stacks left in Canarsie ... On December 18, 1978, one week after the Lufthansa heist, Tommy DeSimone (in Goodfellas, the character Tommy DeVito played by Joe ...