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 ...

Vincent Asaro is the first accused mobster to face charges in the Lufthansa heist. Ed McDonald, a former federal prosecutor who investigated the Lufthansa heist, told CNN that authorities were ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

When Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole Argentieri asked Valenti what he and now 80-year-old Asaro were talking about, the mob turncoat answered, “The Lufthansa heist.” MOB SNITCH SPILLS ABOUT ...

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 ...