Committed by a Loomis vault supervisor, his married girlfriend, and other co-conspirators, the “hillbilly heist” allowed the supervisor, David Ghantt, to load the money into a company van and ...

Immediately, he was pistol-whipped and dragged inside the van. His wallet was taken and his family was threatened; faced with no choice, Whalen agreed to cooperate. The Lufthansa heist had begun. As ...

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.

the dive bar where Lucchese associates hashed out their plan for the Lufthansa heist, as famously reenacted in Goodfellas. Raised by his Italian American grandparents as a devout Catholic ...

The Lufthansa heist at JFK in 1978 resulted in the theft of $5.8 million ... On the night of December 11, 1978, a black Ford van carrying six people arrived at Building 261, Lufthansa's cargo terminal ...

As pointed out by numerous news outlets at the time, the thefts took place at the same JFK Airport building as the 1978 Lufthansa heist ... back of the truck in a van and allowed one of them ...

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 ...

Henry: ”Jimmy started running the Lufthansa heist right out of Robert`s ... terminal`s parking area spotted a black Ford Econoline van pulling into a garage bay near the vault loading platform.

Like the Lufthansa heist 27 years prior, it all began with a conversation ... In Miami, nerves were triggered when a van full of U.S. Customs police sped toward the post office building as the crew ...