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James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
Feb 28, 2024 · The infamous New York City gangster Jimmy Burke, the inspiration for Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, always had a knack for getting away with things. As an Irish-American, Burke was never formally inducted into a Mafia family.
Mar 3, 2014 · James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke was one of the most notorious Irish-American gangsters of all time, a violent, ruthless criminal responsible for countless murders and one of the largest cash robberies in American history. He was also one of the real-life goodfellas.
Jun 9, 2024 · Jimmy Burke (played by Robert De Niro as “Jimmy Conway” in Goodfellas) was an uncharacteristic sort of Mafia man in that he was Irish-American, not Italian-American. His heritage was both a blessing as a curse.
Mar 9, 2024 · The story comes courtesy of the 1986 nonfiction bestseller Wiseguy that detailed the life of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill, as well as his comrades like James “Jimmy The Gent” Burke and Thomas DeSimone, and their involvement in the infamous Lufthansa heist.
Jul 22, 2020 · On the other hand, Brooklyn gangster Jimmy Burke delighted in murder and was responsible for several of the corpses that Hill had to bury. In his 2003 memoir, A Goodfellas Guide to New York,...
Jan 20, 2023 · Krugman passed the tip to mid-level drug-dealing gangster Henry Hill, who pulled in his mentor Jimmy “the Gent” Burke, whose crew was known for hijacking and robbing cargo trucks coming from ...
Sep 21, 2020 · On February 17 1979, two Brooklyn homicide investigators found the body of a conman named Richard Eaton. It was discovered in the back of an abandoned trailer, frozen near-solid, like a six-foot ...
Dec 15, 2019 · James "Jimmy The Gent" Burke is widely regarded as the mastermind behind the Lufthansa Heist, and inspired Robert De Niro's character Jimmy "The Gent" Conway in Martin Scorsese's iconic Goodfellas ...
Apr 17, 1996 · James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke, a legendary gangster and suspected mastermind of the 1978 Lufthansa theft of nearly $6 million in cash, died on Saturday at a Buffalo hospital. He was 64.
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