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The FBI arrested 5 alleged mobsters in pre-dawn raids Thursday in connection with the infamous 1978 Lufthansa 'Goodfellas' heist of $5 million in cash at JFK airport, ABC News and Reuters report.
Vincent Asaro, 78, who is allegedly a ranking member of the Bonanno organized crime family, was arrested at his home in Queens. The raids all took places in the New York area..
The Lufthansa heist -- described at the time as the single-biggest heist in U.S. history -- was made famous in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas.
The robbers, using information provided by an airport worker, stole millions of U.S. currency that was part of a monthly shipment via Lufthansa to then-West Germany where it was used in monetary exchanges serving military servicemen and tourists.
It took some half-dozen masked gunman 64 minutes to steal the packets of cash, toss them into a van and escape.
Frankly, I would have thought that the statute of limitations would have been up on this ages ago.
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The FBI arrested 5 alleged mobsters in pre-dawn raids Thursday in connection with the infamous 1978 Lufthansa 'Goodfellas' heist of $5 million in cash at JFK airport, ABC News and Reuters report.
Vincent Asaro, 78, who is allegedly a ranking member of the Bonanno organized crime family, was arrested at his home in Queens. The raids all took places in the New York area..
The Lufthansa heist -- described at the time as the single-biggest heist in U.S. history -- was made famous in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas.
The robbers, using information provided by an airport worker, stole millions of U.S. currency that was part of a monthly shipment via Lufthansa to then-West Germany where it was used in monetary exchanges serving military servicemen and tourists.
It took some half-dozen masked gunman 64 minutes to steal the packets of cash, toss them into a van and escape.
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