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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 primary incentives for Burke to liquidate his associates were not to share the stolen cash, and to ensure they would not testify against him. In the interim, Louis Werner, the Lufthansa employee who collaborated with the perpetrators, was the only person arrested and convicted for his participation in the heist.
He was arrested upon landing and later accepted a plea deal charging him with one count of simple assault within a maritime and territorial jurisdiction. [259] Lufthansa Flight 410: Timothy Fasano, 49, of Queens, New York, was arrested at Dublin Airport on April 23 when his flight to New York from Munich diverted
Officials arrested two airport employees after they reportedly leaked video of last week's tragic midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C. Both employees of the ...
Two Washington, D.C., airport employees have been arrested in connection with the leak of a video showing the moment Flight 5342 collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.
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.
Swiss is a subsidiary of German airline Lufthansa. Swiss said in its statement that "out of respect for the loved ones, we will not provide detailed information about our employee or the cause of ...
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