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May 19, 1987 · May 19, 1987. The drug dealer son of imprisoned mobster James 'Jimmy... NEW YORK -- The drug dealer son of imprisoned mobster James 'Jimmy the Gent' Burke was shot dead while 'trying...
Jan 22, 2021 · 1980: James Burke (Jimmy the Gent) is arrested. | Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images In Hill’s voiceover in Goodfellas , he speaks about “Jimmy doing hits at 16.”
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Watch the Goodfellas Movie Trailer: Message Board (Discuss the Film): Meet the real Henry Hill and learn the Goodfellas true story behind the movie. See photos of the real Jimmy the Gent Burke and get the facts.
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- Hill Became Involved with The Mob at A Young Age
- The Heist Was An Inside job, Engineered by Brooklyn Gangsters
- The Heist Was Just The Beginning of Burke's Crime Spree
GoodFellasis told from the point of view of Hill, a local Brooklyn gangster and drug dealer who worked as an associate for the Lucchese crime family, one of Brooklyn’s most notorious mafioso organizations. The son of an Irish father and Sicilian mother, he got in with the mob early, running errands for the gangsters who hung out near his family’s h...
Well before dawn on December 11, 1978, six henchmen working for Burke pulled up outside a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building at JFK Airport. They didn’t know it, but they were about to make history. A tip had come in through Hill, Burke’s mob associate, that the German airline would be delivering a big load of cash to the New York hub. It was a pret...
Burke’s propensity for bribing police officers meant that while he spent a stretch of time in prison in the ‘70s, his biggest crimes went unprosecuted — even when he went down years later, for his involvement in fixing college basketball games, he was never tried for murder. The reason why he never was arrested for the Lufthansa Heist, however, is ...
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.
Mar 9, 2024 · Updated March 28, 2024. James Burke A.K.A. “Jimmy The Gent” Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images James Burke’s true story was one of the most memorable ones dramatized in Goodfellas. James Burke, played by Robert De Niro as “Jimmy Conway” in the film, was the principal architect of the Lufthansa heist.
