The remains of mafia member Paul Katz were found last year in the home of Jimmy "the Gent" Burke.
An indictment was issued today for Vincent Asaro and four other members of the Bonnano crime family, charging them with the Lufthansa robbery at JFK, made famous in the movie "Goodfellas". Amazing they kept this secret for so many years. Asaro had been charged with the murder of Katz.
Burke was the one who allegedly planned the Lufthansa heist. He was the character played by Robert DeNiro in the movie.The elder Asaro was charged in the murder of Paul Katz, whose remains were found last year during an FBI dig at a house once occupied by James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke. Burke, a late Lucchese crime family associate, planned the Lufthansa heist and was known for burying victims of mob hits in familiar places.
Burke owned Robert’s Lounge, the saloon that a fellow Lucchese associate, the late Henry Hill, described as Burke’s private cemetery. “Jimmy buried over a dozen bodies ... under the bocce courts,” Hill wrote in his book, A Goodfella’s Guide to New York.
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