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James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
Burke was a New York City police officer in the 1980s. He later began working for the Suffolk County Police Department in Suffolk County, New York.In 1995, a Suffolk County Police Department internal probe found that Burke had "had a relationship with a woman engaged in prostitution and drug dealing, and had engaged in sex acts in police vehicles while on duty and in uniform".
James Burke, Suffolk County’s police chief from 2012 to 2015, was arrested around 10:15 a.m. at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Farmingville after exposing himself to the ranger and saying he ...
In November 2016, former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in federal custody. He was convicted of assaulting a man in 2012 during an interrogation and obstructing a federal investigation. [21] Burke violently assaulted a man in custody who had stolen a duffel bag from Burke's police vehicle.
Already-disgraced ex-Suffolk County police chief James Burke was arrested Tuesday morning for soliciting a sex worker inside a Farmingville park, Long Island officials announced. Burke, who joined ...
Police have identified the suspect charged with killing a married couple who went missing in Washington state last week.. Officers arrested 40-year-old Timothy Burke of Olympia on 17 November ...
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 federal inquiry subsequently expanded beyond Burke to investigate a broader pattern of corruption in both the police department and the office of the Suffolk County district attorney, Thomas J. Spota. [15] In October 2017, Spota and an aide were indicted on charges of obstructing the investigation of James Burke for police brutality.