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James "Jimmy" Burke, nato Conway, è stato un mafioso statunitense, associato alla Famiglia Lucchese. Non essendo italiano Burke non fu mai affiliato ufficialmente alla mafia, ma ebbe modo di distinguersi come uno dei più spietati ed efficienti killer della Famiglia Lucchese agli ordini del caporegime Paul Vario; Henry Hill, che ...
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.
3 mar 2014 · James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke was one of the most notorious Irish-American gangsters of all time, a violent, ruthless criminal responsible for countless murders and one of the largest cash robberies in American history.
28 feb 2024 · In 1978, a group of unknown individuals pulled off the largest robbery committed on American soil, resulting in one of the longest-investigated crimes that the United States has ever seen. And though the authorities would never prove it, this heist was organized by none other than Jimmy Burke.
9 mar 2024 · The story comes courtesy of the 1986 nonfiction bestseller Wiseguy that detailed the life of Lucchese crime family associate Henry Hill, as well as his comrades like James “Jimmy The Gent” Burke and Thomas DeSimone, and their involvement in the infamous Lufthansa heist.
9 mar 2024 · James Burke, played by Robert De Niro as “Jimmy Conway” in the film, was the principal architect of the Lufthansa heist. Soon after he was born — in 1931, to an Irish immigrant single mother in New York — Burke was placed into foster care and shifted from orphanages to foster homes and back throughout his childhood.
19 apr 2023 · Here's what really happened to James Burke, the real-life mob figure who inspired Robert De Niro's Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, after the film's events.
