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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Splashdown on January 23, 2014, 11:54:00 AM
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USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/23/jfk-lufthansa-heist-mobsters/4792723/)
The FBI arrested five alleged mobsters in pre-dawn raids Thursday in connection with the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist of $5 million in cash at Kennedy International Airport, ABC News and Reuters report.
Vincent Asaro, 78, said to be a ranking member of the Bonanno organized crime family, was arrested at his home in Queens. The raids all took places in the New York area..
The Lufthansa heist — described at the time as the single-biggest heist in U.S. history -- was made famous in the Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas.
The robbers, using information provided by an airport worker, stole millions of U.S. currency that was part of a monthly shipment via Lufthansa to then-West Germany where it was used in monetary exchanges serving military personnel and tourists.
It took some half-dozen masked gunman 64 minutes to steal the packets of cash, toss them into a van and escape.
Also arrested Thursday was reputed mob underboss Thomas "Tommy D" DiFiore of Commack, Long Island, the highest-ranking Bonanno family member currently living outside of prison, officials said, according to ABC News.
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I had thought all of the perps in the heist had either been killed by Robert De Niro or had died of natural causes by now.