A prosecutor called the $6 million Lufthansa terminal heist in 1978 the "score of scores" as the racketeering trial of alleged career mobster Vincent Asaro, the first organized crime figure ever ...

Vincent Asaro, left , was arrested Thursday in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport. Thomas “Tommy D” Di Fiore, bottom right, was also busted on a sweeping racketeering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five members of the Bonanno crime family are taken into custody, charged in connection to 1978 Lufthansa heist. Gavino Garay ...

If looks could kill, his dad would be dead. As mob turncoat Gaspare Valenti testified Tuesday at the racketeering trial of 80-year-old Vincent Asaro, his hulking son Anthony (Fat Sammy) Valenti glared ...

“Goodfellas” mobster Vinny Asaro was acquitted Thursday in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist and a slew of other Mafia crimes, including murder — a stunning verdict that was a massive blow to ­federal ...

His testimony helped acquit a Bonanno gangster of the infamous Lufthansa robbery — and now he wants to get paid. Defense witness Kerry Whalen, who was a cargo worker beaten by the gunmen during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feds Are Finally About to Charge Someone for the Famous 1978 Lufthansa Heist Decades after the infamous 1978 Lufthansa airport ...

Three decades ago, a group of mobsters pulled off one of the greatest heists in U.S. history. Most of them got away with it — until Thursday, when a suspected mobster was arrested for the notorious ...

The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a currency vault at Lufthansa's Kennedy Airport hangar on December 11th, 1978, which netted its perpetrators close to $6 million in untraceable bills and ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A trial is underway in the case against Vincent Asaro on charges he had a role in an infamous mob heist immortalized in the hit movie "Goodfellas.'' Asaro's name hadn't ...

NEW YORK - For decades, prosecutors say, Vincent Asaro managed to keep his role in an infamous mob heist immortalized in the hit movie "Goodfellas" hidden from the outside world while others of his ...