Goodfellas (1990) The History Behind The Lufthansa Heist

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
  • The movie Goodfellas follows the story of a New York Mafia crew who robs an airport hangar at JFK airport. Here we present the real story behind Jimmy Burke and Henry Hill's Lufthansa Heist.
    I know the sound is rough on the History Channel part. I cleaned it up the best I could but if I lowered the volume to match the other clips, background sounds were then audible.
    0:31 News report from 1978 about the robbery
    2:52 History Channel documentary about the heist
    26:17 Vincent Asaro is charged in 2014
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Комментарии • 619

  • @Oilers9909
    @Oilers9909 Год назад +55

    Stacks is the definition of you had one job

    • @barbados_ririfenty8553
      @barbados_ririfenty8553 Год назад +5

      Exactly lol you have one freaking job I don't know how he managed to f that up

    • @amgfresh154
      @amgfresh154 Месяц назад

      @@patrick888881😂

  • @chrish2666
    @chrish2666 Год назад +149

    That $5,000,000 in 1978 is worth $23,000,000 today! That's how big this robbery was and, just how lucky these guys got.

    • @vinayshoor7880
      @vinayshoor7880 Год назад +13

      Wouldn't say lucky it fell apart

    • @raz1739
      @raz1739 Год назад +6

      Lucky how? Lol

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад +6

      ​@@vinayshoor7880 Bullshit they were never Busted for it .

    • @vinayshoor7880
      @vinayshoor7880 Год назад +16

      @Robert Rodriguez no but most of the crew were murdered and Jimmy and Paulie hot so much heat that they ended up in prison.

    • @awakenthewoke1091
      @awakenthewoke1091 Год назад +5

      They were lucky enough to help someone steal all that money just to get whacked out

  • @IronDiva
    @IronDiva Год назад +445

    It’s a wedding gift. My mother bought it. The car’s in her name

  • @yvonneplant9434
    @yvonneplant9434 Год назад +38

    RIP Ray Liotta!!

  • @kingjoe3rd
    @kingjoe3rd Год назад +113

    People tend to look back on the History Channel with contempt but sometimes, like in this video, they made some excellent and informative programs.

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +13

      I have clips on here of Entertainment Tonight doing an expose on the mob killIng JFK. Who would have thought.

    • @milfordcivic6755
      @milfordcivic6755 Год назад +16

      We only have contempt for it in it's current state: The Conspiracy Channel

    • @RodPower78
      @RodPower78 Год назад +13

      @@milfordcivic6755 You mean the Conspiracy/Pawn Shop Channel.

    • @jerkov420
      @jerkov420 Год назад +6

      They used to be good

    • @kevinvest9693
      @kevinvest9693 Год назад +8

      Old history Channel was amazing Now its all Aliens 👽.

  • @eduardo4135
    @eduardo4135 Год назад +24

    Oh, Dannyboy the pipes the pipes are calling.

  • @RicArmstrong
    @RicArmstrong Год назад +97

    That's one hell of a score.
    If Stacks Edward's wasn't an idiot and got rid of the van like he was supposed to, they all would have probably gotten away with it.

    • @CittizinKane
      @CittizinKane Год назад

      Gonna be late to your own funeral 💀

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 Год назад +8

      Stacks got whacked

    • @the1only467
      @the1only467 Год назад +18

      They all still splurged on luxurious items which drew attention.

    • @melbourne-heat.69-71
      @melbourne-heat.69-71 Год назад +15

      Tommy DeSimone was great friends with Stacks Edwards they said if you kill your friend you will become a made man.. John Gotti and Paul Vario gave the okay and it was done in Jimmy Burks basement he knew all about it..A guy named Thomas Agro or "Tipp" he tortured Tommy in front of John Gotti and then shot Tommy three times in the head..Tipp also killed Tommy Desimone's two brothers he said why break up the trio.. Jimmy Burke had a mistress she was 16 years old it was Tommy DeSimone sister.. Tommy had two sisters Dolores and Phyllis..Look up "Teresa Ferrara" she was a hairdresser from Ozone Park also going out with Tommy DeSimone before he was killed it's unbelievable what happened to her she was really hot looking 27 years old...Crazy..Stuff

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +8

      I don’t think so. The rest of them were spending there money like idiots and blowing it on big cars and shit lol. The FBI was already suspecting Jimmy’s crew did it, so that was just giving them confirmation. They probably would have gotten someone to cooperate

  • @DMWBN3
    @DMWBN3 Год назад +97

    Lufthansa spokesman didn’t give a flying fvck about security.
    He was probably the inside man 👨🏻
    Goodfellas is one of the best films ever made.

    • @RonMotta1972
      @RonMotta1972 Год назад +18

      I’m still bitter that f’ing “Dances with Wolves” won Best Picture and Costner beat Marty for Best Director. Utter B.S.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 Год назад +7

      A lot of those warehouses are under the jurisdiction of the Teamsters Union, and the mob had their hooks in the Union. They also stole from the docks as well. They also controlled the Longshoremen Workers Union and had inside information from the Dock workers on stuff coming in from overseas.

    • @jonathanbeatrice8317
      @jonathanbeatrice8317 Год назад +1

      Nah. He's just German.

    • @DaileyShorts
      @DaileyShorts Год назад

      Shhhh....

    • @DaileyShorts
      @DaileyShorts Год назад

      ​@@frankdenardo8684 had intel on a lot more than that lol made it look easy

  • @paulw9732
    @paulw9732 Год назад +68

    It’s so cool bc it can never happen again! Cameras , facial recognition , homeland security etc. it’s amazing what went on before all this technology came in .

  • @pikkon899
    @pikkon899 11 месяцев назад +31

    Given that the guys Jimmy had murdered was due to excessive and openly spending he money shortly after the heist, I think it's safe to say that the reason why they never found the money was because it was all spent. There was no way they were going to find it if the bills were clean.

    • @viciazzo
      @viciazzo 11 месяцев назад +6

      Jimmy killed a lot of accomplices because he didn't want split the money

    • @patrickthomas8890
      @patrickthomas8890 11 месяцев назад

      I think his plan was to murder everyone regardless. He didn’t want to split the money and didn’t want them getting caught and talking to the cops. There’s “No honor among thieves”. Henry was spared bc he wasn’t directly involved and was otherwise a good earner for Jimmy.

    • @francissmithers952
      @francissmithers952 10 месяцев назад

      Jimmy killed everyone so he didn't have to share

    • @Rosco_1
      @Rosco_1 9 месяцев назад +3

      A lot of money got left with jimmys daughter she married Bruno idellicato from Donnie brasce him n Vinny basciano spent a lot the now boss of the bonnano family Bruno is due out n is allegedly becoming st boss if he’s even still in the life 💯

    • @samkohen4589
      @samkohen4589 Месяц назад

      @@viciazzo can't blame him

  • @danscott3880
    @danscott3880 Год назад +23

    My uncle worked at Lufthansa Back then. He saw a lot of FBI there. They questioned him. He said I know Nothing. My uncle is s still alive today at 75 years old

  • @fearsomename4517
    @fearsomename4517 Год назад +12

    Just when they thought they knew the answer, the mobsters changed the question.

  • @DMWBN3
    @DMWBN3 Год назад +35

    First time I’ve seen Henry Hill sober in an interview!

    • @mochans
      @mochans Год назад +4

      Most humble I’ve ever seen also.

    • @melbourne-heat.69-71
      @melbourne-heat.69-71 Год назад

      Paul Vario always told his guys to stay away from drugs.. from the Lufthansa Heist he got over $1 Million dollars him and another guy purchased $1.5 million dollars worth of cocaine..Paul had his own junkyard and they had his office bugged buy the FBI.. they were ready to bust him for that I heard the DEA gave Paul Vario a heads-up..The way Henry Hill got busted for selling heroin and cocaine and marijuana nobody from law-enforcement how to clue he was doing it he had the neighbor's kid 16 years old selling drugs for him at school.. also being a mule kid ratted Henry Hill out when he got caught that's when they started watching him with the helicopters and bugging his phone and watching him..He told the 16 year old that he was in the mob and he was part of the Lufthansa Heist..The neighbor Three Doors Down from him a single mother she was cutting the cocaine up in her basement.. Henry Hills Bar that he purchased called The Suite is now a Sushi Bar..If Henry Hill didn't brag to that 16 year old that was it for Henry he would have never got caught selling drugs..That's why he had to RAT..50 other guy's they all got indicted also..Paul & Jimmy they were arrested for something else..

    • @josepha3805
      @josepha3805 Год назад

      🔪 Ah ha ua ha ya ha ha ha ah ha 🔪

    • @felixd.4150
      @felixd.4150 Год назад +4

      He's not sober in this interview.

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад

      @@felixd.4150 he seems really calm and relaxed. I think he is. Look at his other interviews where the dude is dropping the f bomb every other second lol

  • @peterherron4222
    @peterherron4222 Год назад +16

    'They had the IQ of an ashtray' HAHAHA fantastic

    • @j80282
      @j80282 4 месяца назад

      But they weren't smart enough to catch them. They need the stup!d street guys to do it. So who has the brains of a ash tray

  • @dasteezyust4717
    @dasteezyust4717 Год назад +12

    You gotta be careful of Jimmy and Tommy, he's a good earner but he takes too many risks....you got that 😣👋🏻!! You got that 😣👋🏻!!

  • @Darkwolfe73
    @Darkwolfe73 Год назад +117

    Gotta love the timing on the quotes. "These guys are painted as sophisticated and intelligent. Most of them were just morons."
    "Jimmy was an extremely sophisticated, clever person." 😆

    • @fakeplaystore7991
      @fakeplaystore7991 Год назад +20

      "Most of them" isn't "all of them", of course.

    • @TheBaBaTV
      @TheBaBaTV Год назад

      They were smart to not believe in the government and knew how crooked corrupt politicians, law was …. While the regular citizen was so brainwashed naive idi0ts 😂..

    • @jlh4jc
      @jlh4jc Год назад +11

      Well, MOST of them weren't. Remember the Christmas party scene in Goodfellas when Jimmy goes off on one of the associates for buying a Pink Cadillac? Then later on Frankie Carbone shows up with his wife wearing a mink coat. Jimmy knew what's up. But the rest of these guys were morons.

    • @michaelstone3069
      @michaelstone3069 Год назад +3

      Carbone, in real life had stole money from Jimmy. Not a smart thing to do

    • @jeffadams9807
      @jeffadams9807 Год назад +4

      @@michaelstone3069
      & That's Why Carbone
      Ended Up DEAD...

  • @Fuckthis0341
    @Fuckthis0341 Год назад +7

    RUclips is like 10% Goodfellas clips

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +2

      And about 10% Casino and 20% Sopranos clips

  • @Bossbugg90
    @Bossbugg90 Год назад +7

    RIP Ray Liotta

  • @EnforcerX71
    @EnforcerX71 Год назад +10

    I have no doubt that Burke was going to have the rest of the crew whacked anyway, but them going out and spending money like idiots right after the heist I think just made the decision even easier for him.

  • @pbee73
    @pbee73 Год назад +8

    Stacks would have been killed either way, as Henry claims that Jimmy was whacking guys rather than paying them. 5 million dollars back then is like 20 million today and that is enough to live way comfortable.

  • @frankdenardo8684
    @frankdenardo8684 Год назад +26

    I remember my dad taking me to see Goodfellas at the movie house. I was in junior high school in 1978 when the Lufthansa cargo terminal was robbed. It was front page news in every newspaper. What happened was that they went out and took fancy vacations, bought brand new Lincolns, Cadillacs, Buick Rivieras, Electras, Oldsmobile Toronados, 98s. It brought the Mob down. Marty got whacked because he pestered Jimmy for the money, Tommy bought the farm in a ruse that he was going to be "made". Mob lingo for being a full member of the Mafia.

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад +2

      Whose Marty I thought his name was Murray

    • @dasteezyust4717
      @dasteezyust4717 Год назад +9

      Yes we know we all saw the movie

    • @panderson9561
      @panderson9561 Год назад +4

      @@robertrodriguez787 His real name was Martin Krugman.

    • @nchcroy3877
      @nchcroy3877 Год назад +6

      I love it when people give an authoritative narrative and explanation of an event following watching a video on RUclips only for that narrative to be lifted straight from a Hollywood interpretation of an event (IE,you're quoting from the movie Goodfellas).
      You comment about Tommy Desimone being killed in a ruse to being a made man but in reality nobody knew what really happened to him.
      He went missing and was later declared dead. There was talk of John Gotti murdering him etc but none of it has ever been proved and the body of Tommy has never been found so the whole fictional Hollywood dramatisation of his murder that you're quoting is just that - fiction.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 Год назад

      ​@Da Steezyust I live in California, and it was in the local news. It got reported first when it opened.

  • @turbosammy6085
    @turbosammy6085 Год назад +13

    GREAT VIDEO!!!!!! Make that Coffee too go!!!!

  • @yuckyool
    @yuckyool Год назад +6

    Anyone hearing the song "Layla" in their heads as you watch this video?

  • @peteranserin3708
    @peteranserin3708 Год назад +12

    wow! The History channel actually showing shows about history. Those were the days. Now we have pawn stars and some gator hunting crap!

  • @williamhermann6635
    @williamhermann6635 Год назад +9

    Whenever I watch Goodfellas, Im always a little disappointed they dont actually show the heist take place.

  • @denniswhite4446
    @denniswhite4446 Год назад +4

    Damn Feds are still bustin' my chops over the Lufthansa heist...

  • @seamusgreenmurphy
    @seamusgreenmurphy Год назад +5

    Bro I know they would've probably been busted anyway but stacks deciding to get loaded and just go home after pulling off one of the biggest heists in American history always pisses me off. How do you just not care?

  • @jamie7958
    @jamie7958 Год назад +68

    It's wild to call these guys morons and say they collectively have the iq of an ashtray, and then go on to describe how they stole $6m and basically got away with it.

    • @backagain5216
      @backagain5216 Год назад +23

      Well most of them died because they DID have the IQ of an ashtray. They couldn’t keep quiet about it.

    • @russellseilhamer4552
      @russellseilhamer4552 Год назад +7

      The crew knew how to take direction. Even though they had a key person on the inside, they had other obstacles to overcome and the robbery itself was perfectly executed. After the robbery was a different story, Stacks Edwards didn’t get rid of the van and the cops got fingerprints. Guys immediately started spending their share of the Luthansa $$$ and that could’ve been traced back to Jimmy. They should’ve waited 6 months or so to spend it when the heat died down

    • @jaswerner419
      @jaswerner419 Год назад

      @@backagain5216
      Touche...
      Dead or in jail

    • @astralwerks4
      @astralwerks4 Год назад +7

      But they didnt get away with it, they're almost all dead, murdered, or died in jail. Sad life

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад +1

      ​​@@astralwerks4 But they didn't go to Prison for that. And they died because some of them were stupid and not following orders to not buy expensive stuff fact is by Killing them it kept it from being Trace to the Others that would have been Busted

  • @nightintheruts617
    @nightintheruts617 Год назад +3

    Crime in general was SO much easier to get away with back then, it truly was a completely different world

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 11 месяцев назад +1

      Mayor Rudy Gulani changed New York for the worse in my opinion.

  • @NineCylinderDiesel
    @NineCylinderDiesel Год назад +6

    It's no wonder they all got whacked. Spending wrecklessly like that is huge red flag.

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад +1

      It was 2 were you on a Bathroom Break when they showed that in the Movie

  • @disconnected22
    @disconnected22 11 месяцев назад +1

    “...as the moon was on the wane”
    “Duck soup”
    Newsman adding color commentary

  • @Lemaure44
    @Lemaure44 Год назад +23

    Paul Vario lived a decade longer than Ray Liotta.
    Incredible.

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 Год назад +3

      Henry Hill died a free man. Paulie and Jimmy kicked the bucket in the big house.

    • @stinkydoggy98
      @stinkydoggy98 Год назад +10

      Paul Vario died on May 3, 1988. Ray Liotta died on May 26, 2022. Not sure how you think Paul lived a decade longer than Ray.

    • @Lemaure44
      @Lemaure44 Год назад

      @@stinkydoggy98 Are you dumb , bro?

    • @Jl-vl3re
      @Jl-vl3re Год назад +4

      @@stinkydoggy98 he meant years alive on earth not what years he lived

    • @iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606
      @iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 11 месяцев назад +1

      Paul sorvino and Ray liotta died the same year within weeks of each other

  • @iskuly
    @iskuly Год назад +7

    Thanks for this bro I have 30 minutes of my shift to go now it will fly by 👍🏽

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +2

      No problem! I hope you have a good weekend

  • @noonecaresworkharder9125
    @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +10

    Lmao the beef between the FBI and Police Departments is so dumb but funny

  • @russellseilhamer4552
    @russellseilhamer4552 Год назад +42

    These guys were far from stupid. Of course, you had a key guy on the inside but everything was planned out and executed almost perfectly. Except Tommy DeSimone was caught on camera without his mask on and Stacks Edwards didn’t take the getaway van to a mob owned chop shop like he was supposed to. The cops suspected Jimmy Burke and the Roberts Lounge crew from jump and they were followed all over the place. The robbery brought down so much heat. The greed and paranoia of Jimmy Burke took hold and almost the entire crew was violently purged. Ironically, the one guy he didn’t kill, Henry Hill was the one who brought him down. Jimmy made lots of $$$ with Henry with the drug business but HH became a junkie who couldn’t be trusted any longer.

    • @bigprob8744
      @bigprob8744 Год назад

      No camera but onr of the staff gave a description of tommy ( dumb move) and stacks with the van 😂 ya couldnt make it up,they had all the info gave to them pin numbers everything thats how cops knew it was a inside job straight away,the planning werent rocket science just took balls,but the whole crew was abit crazey anyway..jimmy had a sharp criminal mind but his crew were liabilities i mean even chucking the money about from the proceeds straight after,morons.

    • @astralwerks4
      @astralwerks4 Год назад

      Dumb as rocks. The opportunity was easy. The mob got their money, but almost no one directly involved made it out unscathed.

    • @harleydavidson6851
      @harleydavidson6851 Год назад +2

      Ohhhh yeah. O remember it. I was 20. Gravesend bklyn. Hot babes. GREAT Food! Dirt Bikes! Rock & Roll! Year before was Alll the paranoia with Son of Sam running round! The Blackout! Their Sloagan was FUN CITY! Fond Memories!

    • @TheBaBaTV
      @TheBaBaTV Год назад

      Well stacks wasn’t a mob member…. So he’s stupid on his own, unrelated to the mob…

    • @sludge8506
      @sludge8506 Год назад

      And disco was king back then. *King!!!*

  • @kurtvonfricken6829
    @kurtvonfricken6829 Год назад +16

    Jimmy Burke didn’t die at Wende, he died at Roswell Park Cancer Hospital.

  • @pitbull113
    @pitbull113 Год назад +3

    Groonwald lived up the block from me on Long Island. My friends broke into his vacant house and got caught by the FBI.

  • @cinemasnitch3959
    @cinemasnitch3959 Год назад +2

    the line "those son of a bitches" in such a flawless film irks me to this day hahaha. Do another take!

  • @jamesfeldman4234
    @jamesfeldman4234 Год назад +40

    The FBI says here that the Mob Crew involved in carrying out the heist had "the collective IQ of an ashtray." While that may be true, the fact is that the FBI also had the IQ of a collective ashtray. An FBI with half a functioning brain would have immediately pulled in the initial leads, such as Parnell “Stacks” Edwards and Louis Werner, and told them they had a choice: they could name all the names and tell exactly what went down and then enter the witness protection program, or they could do nothing and let the Mob eliminate them as witnesses in the most brutal fashion. I'm sure those witnesses would have chosen the former option. And, as part of this, instead of the FBI leaking their progress in leads, they could have planted false information that they had no leads and the that the trail was cold--giving the real players at the top the false impression that all was good. Instead, the FBI let the Mob kill off many of the witnesses and leads. But that FBI itself was too stupid and too corrupt to follow any sound investigative practices. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually failed to follow proper investigative procedures because the corrupt agents wanted their cut of the action. And, for all we know, they did.

    • @humanbeing2420
      @humanbeing2420 Год назад +12

      Bear in mind that we know many facts now that no one besides the perpetrators knew then. Stacks Edwards was murdered within a week after the robbery. He had parked the black van in front of a fire hydrant, where it was impounded by an NYPD officer because its plates had been reported stolen. I don't know the precise timing of events from that point, but I would imagine that by the time NYPD notified FBI about the van, the FBI took custody of it and lifted fingerprints and then traced them to Edwards, Jimmy Burke found out that Edwards had lost the van and had him killed. IOW, by the time Edwards became a suspect, he was either dead already or very close to being dead.

    • @humanbeing2420
      @humanbeing2420 Год назад +8

      If you watch the video, it explains that Werner was prosecuted and convicted. The federal prosecutor indicates that they tried to get Werner to talk, but Werner thought he wouldn't get convicted (or that his conviction would be reversed on appeal). So vis-a-vis Werner the FBI basically did what you're saying they were too dumb to do.

    • @kayzeaza
      @kayzeaza 11 месяцев назад

      Not enough evidence to get proper convictions. Hindsight is 20/20 bud

    • @jlh4jc
      @jlh4jc 11 месяцев назад

      There's this thing called burden of proof. The secretive nature of organized crime hinders law enforcement in gathering enough air-tight evidence to get a conviction. Yes, everyone knew Jimmy Burke was responsible for the Lufthansa heist. But proving it in a court of law is a different matter.

    • @iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606
      @iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 11 месяцев назад +2

      For a guy in the RUclips comments section with the IQ of an ashtray, your opinions are rather intriguing

  • @andrewt6802
    @andrewt6802 Год назад +4

    And in the end do you know what crime it was that Jimmy Burke was convicted and imprisoned for? Shaving points off college basketball games in Boston.
    Not murders, not stealing $23 million in today's money- illegal college sports gambling.
    Al Capone type shit, right there.

  • @asullivan4047
    @asullivan4047 Год назад +4

    Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator/guest speakers were describing. Jimmy Burke's crew were a bunch of amateurish/non professional wannabes. Special thanks to law enforcement/informants/news media personal for sharing their personal experiences/information. Making this documentary more authentic and possible.

  • @brunosammartino8287
    @brunosammartino8287 Год назад +15

    The guy who brought the opportunity to them was killed for it pretty quickly.

    • @B1astFriend
      @B1astFriend Год назад

      yup if i was maury i would have deff went along on the run to make sure i got my cut. even though id get wacked by jimmy ethier way. lolol

    • @jgarganoiii
      @jgarganoiii Год назад

      @@B1astFriend If I was Maury I wouldn't be involved in that Heist to begin with...

    • @mrnice7570
      @mrnice7570 Год назад +3

      Maury Krugman couldn't stop bothering Jimmy for his cash

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад

      ​@@jgarganoiii Maury was Greedy just like Jimmy that's why he did it. Problem was who was Gonna listen to Maury . He had no Stroke Like Jimmy or Paulie to talk anyone into doing that

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад

      ​@@B1astFriend and you would be the Guy they would leave there with a Bullet in his Head .

  • @mrfugazi6713
    @mrfugazi6713 Год назад +15

    This is another great video buddy, I can remember this robbery, I was a sixteen year old kid and I was in place called Portland Bill Borstol, it’s what in America it would probably be called a reform school, like a kids prison and I remember the screw (guard) shouting out at one of the older kids about this robbery because he said it is biggest robbery in American history, but I didn’t realise until years later that it was a mob crew that did the job, but look at how people Jimmy and Paul whacked over the money, nothing but fucking greed my friend, it’s amazing what some people will do for money and I really don’t know why but, over the years I’ve always thought that the cop, john coffee was a bent cop, like I said for some reason I’ve always thought like that. I also remember reading that one of the airport’s workers said he noticed that one of the guys that did the robbery was wearing amazingly shiny shoes and the police knew straight away that it was Tommy DiSomone that was on the robbery haha 😂 because he was a brilliant shoeshine boy so he always shined his shoes really well, unbelievable buddy, A very interesting video well done buddy.

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +5

      Great story! The shiny shoe part is hilarious. He went home and opened his shine box before the robbery.

    • @robertrodriguez787
      @robertrodriguez787 Год назад +1

      ​@@bettertimeschi Son you would be that Guy shining 🌟 his Shoes if you ever Met him boy .

    • @AimForTheBushes908
      @AimForTheBushes908 Год назад +1

      Hahahaha the fuckin shine box brought him down

  • @jackmehoffe9372
    @jackmehoffe9372 Год назад +2

    Thoroughly enjoyed that

  • @dash1141
    @dash1141 11 месяцев назад +1

    “… and now it’s all over”

  • @KB-sc1ii
    @KB-sc1ii Год назад +4

    No Honor among Criminals..Committ your Crimes alone or Don't Do Crime At ALL..

  • @WiseGuy5674
    @WiseGuy5674 Год назад +3

    I hate it when they call Henry a ‘Wiseguy’. He was an associate at best. But hey, the last man standing gets to write the history, especially when he’s got a media willing to back it up.🤔😎

  • @jameshowland7393
    @jameshowland7393 Год назад +4

    Morrie wants his cut!

  • @geraldspencer8679
    @geraldspencer8679 10 дней назад

    "Everybody loved Stacks." - Henry Hill
    Yeah, when it comes to kicking back and chillin'. Not when it came to business.

  • @shaneburgan4647
    @shaneburgan4647 Год назад +24

    The one question that has always perplexed me is, if the events were somewhat true via the movies is how did Jimmy get away with “killing Made Men”, to cover up the heist, especially this not being sanctioned. Wouldn’t that have gotten him killed?

    • @patrickrogers2304
      @patrickrogers2304 Год назад +17

      Did they ever say Made men did the robbing?

    • @waynegray675
      @waynegray675 Год назад +29

      Easy, money talks and bullshit walks. Plus the fact that the only made guy he clipped was Billy Bats. The guys on the heist were associates

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +29

      Nah the guys in the heist were associates none of them were made.
      Plus Jimmy pretty much had the respect of a made guy lol

    • @waynegray675
      @waynegray675 Год назад +10

      @@noonecaresworkharder9125 not only them, but Paul Vario, a revered capo of Luchese family 🙂👍

    • @cesareperitore8740
      @cesareperitore8740 Год назад +14

      He made tons of money for them ,I'm pretty sure none of the guys that were in on it with him were actually made i think just associates! If he did kill any made members he was careful not to get caught and if his bosses suspected it was him who did murder them they probably looked the other way because he was bringing millions a year to them!!

  • @ogami1972
    @ogami1972 Год назад +1

    Gonna take a moment to point out how hilarious it is that the captioning refers to The Bonnano Family as "Bananas". Classic.

  • @TateGg-ji5lf
    @TateGg-ji5lf 11 месяцев назад +2

    Maury’s wigs were top choice.

  • @johnnyrod9262
    @johnnyrod9262 Год назад +1

    My Late Dad listened to WINS every morning. He said when Lufthansa happened it was The Mafia. And the 5 families got most of the money.

  • @waynegray675
    @waynegray675 Год назад +1

    Well done 👏👏👏👌👍

  • @natureboyricflair8555
    @natureboyricflair8555 10 месяцев назад

    Henry hill always overstates his involvement in every crime he talks about.

  • @chrislafever4350
    @chrislafever4350 Год назад +5

    I. Q. of an ashtray. There's a funny one.

  • @ogami1972
    @ogami1972 Год назад +10

    21:10 Ed McDonald is one of the coolest dudes ever. Straight cop who not only helped break The Burke Crew, he played himself breaking The Burke Crew in Goodfellas, because it's impossible to find anyone more awesome than Ed McDonald to play Ed McDonald. I hope he is retired now, and living happily on a ranch in Wyoming. Thanks for your service, Ed.

    • @danceyrselfkleen
      @danceyrselfkleen Год назад

      Meatriding a cop is wild

    • @sludge8506
      @sludge8506 Год назад

      Too bad your boy, mcdonald, has represented crooked cops and mobsters.
      I guess it pays well.
      🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    • @jpmnky
      @jpmnky 11 месяцев назад

      Who was the mafia boss that was gunned down on a restaurant patio with the cigar in his mouth? His co workers blamed him for putting cigar there.

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jpmnkyNo they blamed Joe Coffey, aka the “dumb as an ashtray” guy. Apparently he put the cigar in the guys mouth lol. I don’t think McDonald did anything.

    • @skygusto3639
      @skygusto3639 10 месяцев назад

      He was also in Carlito's Way

  • @reditoao
    @reditoao Год назад +1

    My eardrums or whats left of them enjoyed this video...

  • @th.burggraf7814
    @th.burggraf7814 11 месяцев назад

    "...needless to say, the red Baron's face was a bit redder today.."
    😂🤣👌🏻👍🏻

  • @susanbowe8689
    @susanbowe8689 Год назад +5

    One of my favorites movie ❤

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 Год назад +2

    And it happened in New York! Unbelievable!

  • @bmxbandito9
    @bmxbandito9 11 месяцев назад +1

    I would have more respect for someone who ratted to just say "Yes, I ratted." without a hundred reasons on why.

  • @lilhawk022
    @lilhawk022 Год назад +13

    The guy in the blue shirt with the red tie. Was he in the movie Goodfellas interviewing Henry about going to the witness protection?

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +5

      Yep that’s Edward McDonald

    • @lilhawk022
      @lilhawk022 Год назад +1

      @@bettertimeschi oh wow I knew he looked familiar lol

    • @mrnice7570
      @mrnice7570 Год назад

      Ed McDonald famous FBI agent

    • @mannyfresh2deff
      @mannyfresh2deff Год назад +1

      Yea he the real deal ..

  • @miked.5089
    @miked.5089 Год назад +8

    JIMMMMYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

  • @billolsen4360
    @billolsen4360 Год назад +2

    22:17 Hmmm, long time mafia guys finding out that there is no honor among thieves! What a surprise to them.

  • @bobbybright9334
    @bobbybright9334 Год назад +2

    What a great score

  • @alking6633
    @alking6633 Год назад +8

    Stacks Edwards DESERVED to get Whacked for screwing up the EASIEST part of the plan.

  • @LonelyRanger902
    @LonelyRanger902 Год назад +3

    How could they convict that employee when they had no accomplices, no cash and no witnesses)

  • @elguapo42
    @elguapo42 Год назад +1

    Love the old footage

  • @theculturedthug6609
    @theculturedthug6609 Год назад +5

    Love the beginning of this video. That feeling is like a drug.

  • @bonafidesmooth
    @bonafidesmooth 6 месяцев назад +1

    I've seen Goodfellas so many times but it's only now I'm realizing....... holy shit they really did this shit for real?!!!

  • @yomama412
    @yomama412 Год назад +4

    ANOTHER GOOD ONE MOE…

  • @ardeladimwit
    @ardeladimwit Год назад +2

    "collective IQ of an ashtray"

  • @Cazz8203
    @Cazz8203 Год назад +6

    I have always believed tommy was taken out by Jimmy burke. Not that I know anything more than anyone else but jimmy was getting rid of everyone. He was gonna get Henry, I think he got tommy too and used the billy batts thing as a cover

    • @bettertimeschi
      @bettertimeschi  Год назад +1

      Good point!

    • @lionelhutz5137
      @lionelhutz5137 Год назад +2

      Paulie got rid of Tommy for reasons other than Lufthansa.

    • @hoofie2002
      @hoofie2002 Год назад +1

      Jimmy was whacked because he killed a made guy. Pauli would have been ordered to do it or let him be killed with no comeback.

    • @Cazz8203
      @Cazz8203 Год назад

      @@hoofie2002 sure that's what Henry said....but he was a known bulls*** artist....as far as we know, Paulie never found out about Billie batts....that was supposedly between Henry, tommy, and Jimmy. But wtf....nobody truly knows anything. But Henry was outted several years later for making a lot of s*** up

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 11 месяцев назад

      I think it was both. Jimmy secretly ratted out Tommy to Paulie or Gotti after Lufthansa.
      Tommy apparently was supposed to bring another van but messed it up somehow lol. He also allegedly took off his mask.
      Jimmy was extremely tight with Tommy but I mean you can only take so much.

  • @noonecaresworkharder9125
    @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +3

    4:28 Tommy without a mustache

  • @francissmithers952
    @francissmithers952 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love better-times news

  • @insertnamehere313
    @insertnamehere313 Год назад +1

    .....Security😄......
    YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIM....😂

  • @markchapman2585
    @markchapman2585 Год назад

    Great channel

  • @BenjaminSteber
    @BenjaminSteber Год назад +2

    “But throughout the investigation one of the major obstacles in cracking the case had nothing to do with organized crime at all.”
    “The FBI and the NYPD Did not get along.”
    Me:👀🤨

  • @knoname7778
    @knoname7778 Год назад +11

    Its so wild this was a true story

  • @earthling8585
    @earthling8585 7 месяцев назад

    "JIMMY!!!!"
    The best scene in movie history. I.M.O. ❤

  • @JuliaAlexandra180
    @JuliaAlexandra180 Год назад +4

    You're a funny guy @better times.

  • @travis8947
    @travis8947 11 месяцев назад +1

    Duck Soup… gotta bring that one back. “Some fowm of chicken dinnah…”

  • @VWLiftKits
    @VWLiftKits 9 месяцев назад

    Excelente

  • @slabbusterrtr7690
    @slabbusterrtr7690 Год назад +4

    Damn stacks if u wouldve got rid of that van u probably wouldve lived and made Lot of money u had one JOB!! LOL

  • @DaveSCameron
    @DaveSCameron Год назад +5

    "As smooth as a Swiss clock... with military precision.."
    If one ignores two of the gang lifting their ski masks mid heist for long enough for them to be identified by at least 3 Lufthansa staff and the getaway van being discovered by NYPD a day after the robbery as just a couple of mistakes then yes it was cool as a cucumber 🥒 😂

  • @Demy1970
    @Demy1970 Год назад +3

    Should have just had one of their own drive the van, easiest job and it got screwed up

  • @codzy3532
    @codzy3532 Год назад +3

    the detective talking in this doc i was looking at him thinking ive seen his face before.......he was in the movie goodfellas an acted as himself 🤔

  • @mattbeondi1186
    @mattbeondi1186 11 месяцев назад

    Henry says we had to load the truck and I had to make sure everyone stayed calm. He's lying he wasn't there.

  • @gumphusband2462
    @gumphusband2462 5 месяцев назад

    After giving Paul Vario a million and under half million to people involved in the heist, and 4 million to his two daughters, roughly.

  • @mottthehoople684
    @mottthehoople684 5 месяцев назад

    WHN YOU SEE EARTH FROM THIS VIEW..IT MAKES WAR SO OBSURD THAT I CRY

  • @lorenzoaisaican9816
    @lorenzoaisaican9816 Год назад +3

    Yes the feds offerd Henry Hill a deal

  • @sphinxrising1129
    @sphinxrising1129 Год назад +6

    Hill, on top of being a SNITCH, was a well known liar, who often made himself more important than he ever really was.

    • @alekomania
      @alekomania Год назад +1

      Somehow they tried to make Hill look like a good guy but like you perfectly said he was a snitch. Should be in jail no rewarded with fame!!!

    • @noonecaresworkharder9125
      @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +4

      I don’t know where this narrative ever comes from. Henry never made himself look like a bigger deal than he was lol. Ray Liotta might have made him look better in the movie but he’s still the same. Just an associate with a regular place who becomes a drug addict and seller later on.

    • @sphinxrising1129
      @sphinxrising1129 Год назад +1

      @@noonecaresworkharder9125 The movie was based on a book Hill wrote, so, he did, in fact make himself out to larger than life.

  • @jeffreyjackson5229
    @jeffreyjackson5229 Год назад +2

    Just remember that guys made the bad decisions and brought attention to themselves were low level men. They were the muscle, not the brains.

  • @patrickcallahan9599
    @patrickcallahan9599 Год назад

    The cops,gangsters and airport workers hanging out together makes Lufthansa soup

  • @noonecaresworkharder9125
    @noonecaresworkharder9125 Год назад +4

    23:44 they roasted the fuck out of Henry

  • @jasonhenry5by5
    @jasonhenry5by5 Год назад +4

    The only thing I'll say about the Italian Mafia is it wasn't their default position to kill working stiffs
    (Thought the guy pesci played showed hebry hill a new gun by shooting some random individual)

  • @IAmProdAG
    @IAmProdAG Год назад +16

    3:40 he's the actual detective that played in Goodfellas that put Henry in Karen in the witness protection program on the movie.

    • @marohan
      @marohan Год назад +8

      Edward A. McDonald federal prosecutor

    • @ter1413
      @ter1413 Год назад +5

      Prosecutor. Never a detective.

    • @IAmProdAG
      @IAmProdAG Год назад +2

      @@ter1413 sorry tartersauce1413

  • @importon
    @importon Год назад +3

    our man on the street!

  • @javierdenardo2607
    @javierdenardo2607 Год назад

    Looks like modern day one took place in Toronto last month