Asaro says the mastermind behind the Lufthansa heist never kicked up his full take. Asaro’s mouthpiece said the feds just gave Martin Scorsese a follow-up to Goodfellas. Asaro was alleged to be a big guy in the Bonanno family and his arrest made him the first gangster to face charges in the Lufthansa heist. The cops claimed Asaro was in charge of all illegal activities at JFK airport. The Lufthansa heist made its way back into the news in 2014 when Vincent Asaro got pinched. The Beatles of crime, in case you were wondering, is the Gallo Profaci wars, which launched the stories of The Godfather. Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, is of course a gangster classic. The Lufthansa heist has, so far, produced two made for TV movies, The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (which I’ve never seen) and The Big Heist (with all its Donald Sutherland Irish accent mashup glory). Criminals aren’t supposed to be allowed to reap the spoils of their crimes, but the Lufthansa Heist at Kennedy International Airport in 1978 made a lot more money than just the original $6 million ($20 mil if you account for inflation), which is the biggest heist in American history. Goodfellasis The Rolling Stones of crime movies.
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