LUFTHANSA HEIST Ep. 6 | “Wiseguys and Goodfellas”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Henry Hill testifies against his friends and begins a new life in the witness protection program. But he doesn’t completely give up his old life, and it causes problems with law enforcement. He writes a book that becomes an iconic movie and he reinvents himself as a wiseguy celebrity. Then in 2014, the FBI suddenly receives a chance to arrest someone who was connected to the robbery. In 2015, Vincent Asaro goes to trial as one of the few remaining men who claimed to know about the heist. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials : blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. This show is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please visit AirwaveMedia.com to check out other great podcasts like Ben Franklin’s World, Once Upon A Crime, and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Henry Hill loved to talk, and one of the benefits of talking was that it could lead to money.
0:18.0	Of course, it could also lead to trouble, and Henry's former mob associates obviously
0:22.8	hated him for being a rat.
0:25.3	But talking could also be a good way to earn some cash, if you talk to the right people
0:29.8	about the right things.
0:32.2	When Henry was arrested in 1980 for selling drugs, he entered the witness protection program
0:37.9	so that he could provide evidence in the Lafetonsa case.
0:41.7	When he was asked if he could provide an alibi for his whereabouts during the heist, he
0:46.0	said he'd been in Boston working on a college basketball gambling conspiracy.
0:51.6	Henry wasn't able to give very much useful information about the Lafetonsa heist, but
0:56.7	he was able to give enough information about the basketball scandal to send Jimmy Berk
1:01.5	to prison for a long time.
1:04.3	Jimmy was involved in the scheme to fix basketball games at Boston College, and the authorities
1:09.8	were happy to build a case against him for anything.
1:13.4	It wouldn't be as satisfying as convicting him for masterminding the Lafetonsa robbery,
1:18.4	but it was better than nothing.
1:20.7	And then Henry's love of talk and money almost derailed the case.
1:26.2	He sold the basketball gambling story to Sports Illustrated.
1:30.7	The magazine paid him $10,000 to be interviewed for an article called How I Put the Fix
1:36.2	In.
1:37.7	Henry spoke candidly about the case.
1:40.4	He gave away names, dates, and amounts of money.
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