Lufthansa Heist Helmsman was played by Donald Sutherland and Robert De Niro.
The cops say Asaro parcels out crimes at the JFK airport for the Mafia.
That caper netted $6 million and it is still one of the biggest thefts in American history.
Asaro says the guy who planned that robbery never kicked up his full take to the family.
Who was this Jimmy Conway?
This Jimmy the Gent?
He was tough, rough, and deadly.
If he didnt kill you himself, he knew guys who could do it for him.
Asaro says Burke owed him.
Its too late now.
Burkes in the ground.
Asaro is on his way to court.
The cops were following a lead they got from digging around Jimmy Burkes daughters house in Queens.
They found human remains that DNA tests matched to Paul Katz, a rat who disappeared in 1969.
Katz was strangled, buried, dug up and buried again in Burkes basement.
James Burke was an associate of the Lucchese family.
He wasnt a made guy because he was Irish.
Burke was born in New York.
His mother, Jane Conway, was from Ireland and nobody knows who his old man is.
The guy crashed his car giving Burke a beating while he was driving.
Word on the street is some of the cash from Lufthansa heist was buried at their home.
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When he was a kid, Jimmys summer jobs usually were off the books.
Way off the books.
Sometimes they were cooking the books.
Burke was a standup guy, he kept his mouth shut and did his time.
That put him in good with the bosses.
Jimmy the Gent was a charmer.
Jimmy the Gent had two girls and two boys with Mickey.
He named the boys Frank and Jesse James.
Yeah, like the gunslingers.
They grew up playing with a basement full of stolen toys.
DeSimone was maybe ten years younger than Henry Hill, but who cares?
The movies said they were about the same age and fuck you pay me.
He said paying cops was like feeding elephants at the zoo.
The elephant in the room is that all possible squealers that the cops found out about?
Over a dozen of them wound up dead in a trunk of some car at JFK Airport.
Burke owned Roberts Lounge, a bar in South Ozone Park, Queens.
It was a great place for cards.
Games usually went into the early morning.
It was also a convenient burial ground for guys who didnt pay up.
Burke laundered his money through Moo Moo Veddas, a dress factory.
Well they were sentenced to ten years.
They got out in six and added dope to their portfolio.
The Mafia had a no dope policy.
It was really more like a dont ask dont tell but fucking pay me policy, but whos quibbling.
Quibblers end up losing big with Jimmy Burke.
He is said to have killed or ordered the killings of a lot of guys.
He told Tommy DeSimone to strangle Burkes best friend, Dominick Remo Cersani, with a piano wire.
Remo is buried next to the bocce court behind Roberts Lounge now.
Burke also gave a new meaning to the phrase on ice.
Burke had a rep for locking people who owed him money in refrigerators.
You know how they tell you not to play in dumped fridges when youre a kid.
Well it was there until December 11, 1978.
Jimmys son Frank drove the crash car.
Hes gonna go far.
Burkes crew held up the cargo workers at gunpoint, handcuffed them and locked them in the lunch room.
He took their wallets and told them hed kill their families if they didnt follow instruction.
They loaded cash and jewels into a van and unloaded it in Canarsie.
The van was crushed and the take was about $6 million.
Burke got spooked by all the publicity and went around clipping all the loose ends.
Parnell Steven Stacks Edwards was found shot to death cos he was clumsy with his Pumas.
Fat Louie Cafora and his blushing bride Joanna never got back from that unplanned honeymoon.
Robert McMahon and Joe Manri were found in a Buick.
Paolo LiCastri was found in a lot in Brooklyn.
Martin Krugman disappeared on January 6, 1979.
Better to fade away than cost half a million, which was supposed to be his take.
Tommy DeSimone, and Angelo Sepe lived through it.
They were standup guys.
Henry Hill ratted out Jimmy and Burke was arrested on April 1, 1980.
Burke was suspected of committing more than 50 murders, but only convicted for killing con man Richard Eaton.
Burke left Eaton in an abandoned tractor trailer and kids found him.
Burke contended that the bastard died of hypothermia.
Burke died of lung cancer on April 13, 1996.
They still havent found all the money from the Lufthansa Heist.
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