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Vincent Asaro (July 10, 1935 – October 22, 2023) was an American mobster who served as a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family. [1] [2] Born in Queens, a borough of New York City, he was arrested by the FBI on January 23, 2014 and indicted on charges related to the 1978 Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The Lufthansa heist was a robbery which took place at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated US$5.875 million (equivalent to US$28.32 million in 2024) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed in the U.S. at the time.
The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Simone in collaboration with Henry Hill. It was published by Lyons Press , an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield , on August 1, 2015.
A trial commenced Thursday for the 22-year-old son of a Honolulu police sergeant accused of murdering an 18-year-old man who tried to stop a robbery on Tantalus in 2022. ... charged with second ...
One man who witnessed the robbery and shooting would not name the suspects until he first spoke with his lawyer. Reluctant trial witnesses testify to friend’s shooting during Columbus armed ...
Landry: "The trial was unfair and partial. It was rigged from the start and the heist came at the end. It was not, however, the reasons that play out in the narrative of the media."
A jury in a different county deadlocked on a verdict, leading to a bench trial, which acquitted him. Harris has continued to protest his innocence; he has sued the state police, the Tioga County District Attorney's office and several others for malicious prosecution. [4] In 2017 he was arrested again after allegedly stalking one of the ...
He helped investigate what was long considered the largest cash robbery in Los Angeles: the Sept. 12, 1997, theft of $18.9 million from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street.