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- Jimmy got his nickname 'Jimmy the Gent' because he used to take the driver's license, just like everybody else, except Jimmy used to stuff a fifty-dollar bill into the guy's wallet before taking off.
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Jan 22, 2021 · The nickname “The Gent” came from Burke’s habit of greasing (with fifty-dollar bills) the drivers of trucks he hijacked. Beyond that, Burke was a cold-blooded killer. Jimmy ‘The Gent’...
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James Burke was born on July 5, 1931, in New York City, and from the start it proved to be difficult. Burke never knew his real parents. He was taken into foster care at the age of two, where he faced more than a decade’s worth of violence, sexual abuse, and contrasting kindness by a litany of foster parents. At the age of 13, Burke and his current...
In 1978, a group of unknown individuals pulled off the largest robbery committed on American soil, resulting in one of the longest-investigated crimes that the United States has ever seen. And though the authorities would never prove it, this heist was organized by none other than Jimmy Burke. Jimmy Burke first began formulating the Lufthansa heist...
When he wasn’t pulling off multi-million dollar heists, Jimmy Burke was organizing low-level crimes throughout Ozone Park, Queens. He owned a dress factory called Moo Moo Vedda’s that he used to launder money, and a tavern called Robert’s Lounge, which served as a sort of hub for Burke and his crew. Day to day, Burke and his crew made their living ...
Around 1982, Hill had become an informant for the FBI, as accurately depicted in Goodfellas, and admitted that there were more than a dozen people buried in and around Robert’s over the years. In addition to that, he snitched on Jimmy Burke for rigging college basketball games. Burke was ultimately sentenced to 20 years, though the DA tried to get ...
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.
Jul 20, 2017 · What followed was even more staggering as the mastermind, Jimmy Burke, also known as Jimmy the Gent, had to spend many nights sleeping with one eye open, fearing that some of the members of his crew might “drop a dime” and rat out to the police, so he murdered or orchestrated the murders of almost everyone involved in the robbery.
Sep 19, 2019 · Played by Robert De Niro in Goodfellas. In Goodfellas, Robert De Niro played Jimmy Conway. His real name was Jimmy Burke and he was known in the movie and in real life as Jimmy the Gent....
Jimmy got his nickname 'Jimmy the Gent' because he used to take the driver's license, just like everybody else, except Jimmy used to stuff a fifty-dollar bill into the guy's wallet before taking off. I can't tell you how many friends he made out at the airport because of that.
Goodfellas (stylized GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy by Pileggi.
