The big heist the real story of the Lufthansa heist, the Mafia, and murder
The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn't be told-until now. One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend-and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning repo...
| Main Author: | DeStefano, Anthony M. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Citadel Press,
2017.
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| Summary: |
The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn't be told-until now. One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend-and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this legendary unsolved case using recent evidence from the 2015 trial of eighty-year-old mafioso Vincent Asaro, who for the first time speaks out on his role in the fateful Lufthansa heist. This blistering you-are-there account takes you behind the headlines and inside the ranks of America's infamous crime families-with never-before-told stories, late-breaking news, and bombshell revelations: New details on the heist's planning: who was involved, how they pulled it off, and what really happened to the almost $6 million in cash and jewels they stole from JFK Airport |
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| Physical Description: |
vi, 266 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-249) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0806538309 9780806538303 |
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