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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

small-batch Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, with more than $100,000 of booze eventually gone missing. Huh? In a robbery with strong echoes of the 1978 Lufthansa heist at New York City’s John F.

The Lufthansa Heist book comes out in August ... the loot hauled from Lufthansa could be transferred from the getaway van into a “switch car” to evade the cops. He also offered to destroy ...