#Lufthansa Heist

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Rundowns on my picks (minus Oppenheimer):

Goodfellas:

Quintessential true crime movie. Most biopic-y of the biopics, beginning with the main character as a child and detailing his entire life chronologically. Henry Hill was an accomplice in the Lufthansa heist, a massive theft whose mastermind killed off a bunch of co-conspirators. The movie is about Henry Hill’s life, from being a child who idolizes the gangsters, to a power mobster in his own right, to a scared man trapped in this life of crime. Martin Scorsese is brilliant as always, highly recommend

Love & Mercy:

One of the only music biopics worth a damn. It’s a dual story about Brian Wilson, the main songwriter for The Beach Boys. Story 1 is set in the 1960s, when Brian retreated from the bands tours to become more heavily involved in studio production. It details his work on their acclaimed album Pet Sounds and then the unfinished album Smile, which he had to abandon due to his deteriorating mental state. Story 2 is set in the late 80s/early 90s, when Brian Wilson was under heavy medication and suffering from medical abuse at the hands of Dr. Eugene Landy. Melinda Ledbetter, a fan (who later married him) discovered his situation and worked to get him help. I say it’s the only music biopics worth a damn because it actually details his creative process and how he made music, rather than just showing people mention song titles and lyrics. The story of a person losing his mind and getting help later is genuinely inspiring

Bronson:

Tom Hardy plays Michael Peterson AKA Charles Bronson (AKA Charles Ali Ahmed AKA Charles Salvador, he changed his name twice after the movie came out), a British prisoner known for his physical fitness and violence. After being arrested for robbing a post office, he chose to become the world’s most famous prisoner, taking hostages in his cells and attacking prison guards. He has spent decades of his life in prison, and has a record for most time in solitary confinement. The movie details his life being moved from prison to prison to insane asylum to prison, and his brief period of freedom where he became a bare knuckle boxer before being arrested again. The film is very very artsy, it shows a lot of long fantasy sequences of Bronson standing on a stage in vaudeville makeup, narrating his exploits to an enthralled audience

Elephant Man

John Merrick was a man with severe deformities across his face and body, called the elephant man and placed on display in a circus freak show before being purchased as an oddity by an interested medical doctor, Sir Frederick Treves. Treves made the shocking discovery that Merrick was actually capable of speech, intelligent, literate, and deeply emotionally affected by his treatment at the hands of society. Treves had Merrick participate in high society and tried to give him a normal life.

Ed Wood

Ed Wood was a b-movie filmmaker from the 40s to 70s, largely considered to be the worst filmmaker of all time. There were a lot of shitty b-movies back then, but Ed Wood was unique because of his enduring commitment to the art, making shitty movie after shitty movie, finding more and more crazy ways to get them funded. The biopic is about Wood’s career in the 50s and his friendship with Bela Lugosi. The whole movie is filmed like an old-fashioned Hollywood fairytale. Extremely funny, and the parts that are real are more astonishing than the parts they had to make up.

thanks for the movie reviews! or previews, or whatever

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.29 (after 1950)

1953 – BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco. 1955 – The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol. 1956 – Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. 1957 – Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into the Knesset. 1960 – An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio. 1964 – The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to the United Republic of Tanzania. 1964 – Biggest jewel heist; involving the Star of India (gem) in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang. 1967 – Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors. 1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. 1972 – The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are released from prison in exchange for the hostages of the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615. 1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in a crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida, leading to the cancellation of Operation Credible Sport. 1985 – Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia. 1986 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway. 1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill U.S. President Bill Clinton. 1998 – In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities. 1998 – Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time. 1998 – ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission. 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel. 1998 – Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras. 1998 – The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200. 1999 – A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India. 2002 – A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam. 2004 – The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a 2004 Osama bin Laden video in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election. 2005 – Bombings in Delhi, India kill more than 60. 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to five. 2008 – A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, killing 215. 2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages. 2014 – A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri Lanka, kills at least 16 people, and leaves hundreds of people missing. 2015 – China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years. 2018 – A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board.

[vicariouslee]

This is a really fun show I stumbled across on History Channel. Hosted by the always cool Pierce Brosnan, it presents some of the biggest heists ever performed, through reenactments, CGI, dark humor, and interviews with some of the thieves themselves. One episode highlighted the Lufthansa heist of 1978, immortalized in Goodfellas, and really went into detail. I highly recommend for anyone who roots for the bad guy sometimes.

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Explore the gripping tale of the Lufthansa Heist, a daring robbery at JFK Airport in 1978 that stunned the world with its audacity and meticulous planning. This stock video delves into the masterminds, the aftermath, and the enduring allure of one of history's most infamous heists. The Lufthansa Heist: Infamous Crime of the Century published first on https://www.youtube.com/@bafflingmysteries/

[phillyrestaurantreviews]

I just finished reading Daniel Golio’s “Restaurant Confidential: The Down and Dirty Exploits of a restaurant Manager” and found it both entertaining and enlightening. The book is a memoir of his professional life in the hospitality and restaurant industry from his time as a Sous Chef to Director of Food and Beverage. The book recalls his down and dirty exploits of being in the hospitality industry starting from the late 1970's until the early 2020's.

The book also provides a detailed account of such major events as the Lufthansa Heist at JFK International airport, the 1977 Blackout in New York City, and even the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Bourdain's personal accounts of what it is like to work in the hospitality and restaurant industry are fascinating. As someone who enjoys cooking, I was especially interested in his accounts of working in a professional kitchen.

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Overall, I found “Restaurant Confidential: The Down and Dirty Exploits of a restaurant Manager” to be a great read. It's a fascinating look behind the scenes of the restaurant industry, and it's also a lot of fun. If you're a fan of food, cooking, or just good stories, I highly recommend it.

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[powerixnews]

The Most Audacious Heists in History #HeistHistory #CriminalMasterminds ...

 Uncover the most daring and successful robberies in history that shook the world. From the audacious train robbery in England to the daring art theft in Boston, learn about the meticulously planned heists that made millions. Follow the trail of the Pink Panther Gang and the epic Lufthansa heist, as we reveal the shocking details of these incredible robberies. #HeistHistory #CriminalMasterminds #TrueCrime #RobberyChronicles #NotoriousThieves #MastermindRobberies #HistoricalHeists #GangsofRobbers #DaringThefts #FamousHeists

[antonio-velardo]

Antonio Velardo shares: Vincent Asaro, Mobster Acquitted in Lufthansa Heist, Dies at 86 by Sam Roberts

By Sam Roberts In a stunning verdict, he was found not guilty of participating in the storied 1978 theft, retold in the film “Goodfellas.” Then he went to prison over a road rage incident. Published: October 27, 2023 at 03:06PM from NYT New York https://ift.tt/SWzsLcB via IFTTT

[sreepadamangaraj]

Jimmy Burke planned the largest cash robbery in AMERICAN HISTORY! James Burke, 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. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after the robbery.This this whole video to know about more.

[introvertguide]

Goodfellas: Jimmy Burke, Henry Hill, and the Lufthansa Heist

The current film under review is Goodfellas (1990) and the film is in part the story of one of the most interesting mobster heists in American history. The heist was organized by Jimmy Burke, member of the Lucchese crime family, although he was never officially charged nor was he convicted of most of the crimes that followed the heist. Burke was eventually brought down by the testimony of Henry Hill, a fellow mobster who gave up information on over 40 mobsters concerning over 200 different crimes and then Hill went into witness protection for the rest of his life. The story of Goodfellas is the “wise guy” life of Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, and how he got into his mafia position. Goodfellas is a fascinating film, directed by Martin Scorsese, and it spawned a great interest in the heist and the fallout afterwards. Two television movies followed that focused specifically on the heist (The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (1991) and The Big Heist (2001)) making this robbery into the infamous tale that it now is. Based on the films, an online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the History Channel, and a variety of newspaper articles, I would like to go over the actual heist and how wild everything got, due to the paranoia of Jimmy Burke.  

SPOILER WARNING!!! THIS WILL GIVE AWAY SOME OF THE PLOT OF THE MOVIE SO CHECK OUT THE MOVIE FIRST AND THEN COME BACK TO SEE HOW IT COMPARES TO THE REAL STORY!!!

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The year of the heist was 1978 and it started when a man named Louis Werner, who worked at JFK Airport in New York, got into some gambling debt with bookie Martin Krugman and offered up information that planes shipped large amounts of cash and jewelry. Werner and co-worker Peter Gruenwald had successfully stolen from the planes in the past so this was a viable tip. Krugman decided he wanted to make it into an actual armed robbery instead of just syphoning money off the top and brought the plan to the attention of mobster Jimmy Burke. 

On December 11th, 1978, six men recruited by Burke went into Lufthansa cargo building 261, broke in through the padlocked door, and took all of the employees as hostages. In total, 72  boxes of untraceable cash weighing about 15 lbs. each were taken as well as a box of jewelry. In total, there was 5 million in cash and 875 thousand in jewelry that was stolen that day and all of the robbers got away. Well, sort of.

One of the men named Parnell Edwards failed to get rid of the getaway van. He was supposed to have it crushed in New Jersey but instead parked it illegally in front of his apartment. A hit was put out on Edwards and he was shot in the head five times by a pair of the other robbers, but the police now had the van as well as the fingerprints of many of the group. Burke became paranoid about anybody that could implicate him in the heist. There was not enough evidence to imply anything with Burke, but the robbers that were involved were not laying low with their share so there was a string of murders in the beginning of 1979 all surrounding the heist.

-Krugman was demanding his cut and disappeared on Jan 6th. Henry Hill later claimed that he was killed and chopped into pieces; all buried underneath a lounge in the city. 

-On Jan 17th, heist member Richard Eaton was caught stealing from Burke in a separate scam and, knowing Eaton wasn’t trustworthy, Burke ordered the man be tortured and killed, The severely destroyed body was found hogtied and on a hook in the back of a meat freezer truck. The murder was the only one that stuck to Burke and led to his eventual conviction and 20 year sentence. This was based on the physical evidence and testimony from Hill.

-Tom Monteleone was an associate of Eaton’s who helped with the scam against Burke and was killed in March. His body was not found.

-Louis Cafora was one of the heist members and he bought his wife a custom pink Cadillac with his share of the money. This was not laying low, so Burke ordered both of them killed and the couple disappeared in March. Neither the bodies nor the car were ever found.

-On May 16th, the bodies of heist member Robert McMahon and inside man at Air France Joe Manri were found in a car, shot execution style on the orders of Burke. Both men had been offered protection to give evidence against Burke and both had refused, but Burke was cleaning house.

-Paolo LiCastri was an associate of another crime family who was charged with getting the other family’s cut from the heist. LiCastri was found naked and bullet ridden on a burning trash heap on June 13th. 

Henry Hill was obviously scared for his life because Jimmy Burke seemed to be killing anybody that knew anything about the heist and Hill was not Sicilian so he was not “made” and had no protection from his mobster associates. He gave testimony to protect himself and Burke was given enough jail time that he died in prison. More interesting than Jimmy Burke are the people that had to tiptoe around his temper and paranoia, and that is why Goodfellas is such a great film. If you want to check out a documentary on the real Henry Hill (and you don’t mind a huge dose of cursing), here is a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RoFmHR8S3Y

[racingtoaredlight]

On This Day...

On this day in 1978, members of gangster Jimmy “The Gent” Burke’s crew successfully stole $5.8 million in cash and jewelry from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The infamous “Lufthansa Heist” set a record for the largest cash robbery in the United States at that time. Despite being long suspected of planning and ordering the armed robbery, there was never enough evidence to arrest Burke. Many of the individuals who took part were later killed or simply disappeared. None of the cash or jewelry was ever recovered. 

In order to supply currency exchanges in western Europe, particularly in West Germany where the U.S. military had a large presence, the federal government regularly shipped newly printed American dollars through private cargo carriers. One such carrier was German airline Lufthansa. When the currency arrived at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK, it was stored in a vault within the terminal and behind a sophisticated security system. The combination to the vault was changed daily and only a single security guard on each shift was given the new combination. Port Authority Police were capable of sealing off the entire airport within 90 seconds during a robbery, so stealth and speed would be important to any robbery attempt.

Jimmy Burke learned of the regular presence of large amounts of cash in the Lufthansa terminal from Martin Krugman, a Russia-Jewish wig store and hair salon owner, bookmaker, and gambler. Krugman was told about the cash by Lufthansa cargo employee Louis Werner. Werner owed Krugman $20,000 and he provided in the information in exchange for the potential to have his debt released. Krugman passed along the information to Henry Hill, who was a member of Burke’s crew. Hill and Burke along with Thomas DeSimone were all associates of Paul Vario, a capo or local boss within the Lucchese crime family. Werner, who had secretly stolen $23,000 with another employee in 1976, help Burke plan the robbery, including telling him the best types of cars and vans to use, the nature of the security system, and the number of employees expected to be at the facility. Werner also recommended the use of a “crash car,” to escort the van and crash into any police or security vehicles that attempted to intercept the van as it attempted to leave the airport. The use of a car in this role turned out to be unnecessary.

After Burke pitched the plan to Vario in order to get his blessing, he assembled a team that included his eldest son, Frank and DeSimone.  Of the crew of ten, one was another associate of Burke’s, blues musician and credit-card fraudster Parnell “Stacks” Edwards. Edwards had responsibility for both the first and last steps; he stole the van that would be used in the robbery and was supposed to drop it off at a car compactor in New Jersey afterward. The Gambino family was promised a tribute payment for sanctioning the heist and Gambino soldier Paolo LiCastri was added to Burke’s crew. Vincent Asaro, a Bonanno family capo, was also promised a part of the proceeds because the airport was in Bonanno territory.

At 3:12am on December 11, the Ford Econoline van with Burke’s crew drove up to the Lufthansa cargo terminal. Lufthansa cargo agent Kerry Whalen was immediately accosted and pistol whipped by two members of the crew. Whalen was pulled into the van and his wallet taken with one of Burke’s men saying “We know where you live.” Hearing a commotion, another terminal agent walked down the cargo ramp to investigate. As the agent opened the terminal door, six of the crew, now wearing masks and gloves, forced their way inside and handcuffed him. Using keys provided by Werner, the crew moved through the terminal, opening locked doors. With Whalen and the other agent, Rolf Rebmann in tow, the crew, armed with shotguns now, burst into the small cafeteria, where the remaining Lufthansa employees were on break. All were bound or handcuffed and John Murray, the senior terminal agent, was ordered to call Rudi Eirich on the intercom and ask him to come to the break room. Eirich, the security guard on duty with the vault combination, complied and upon entering the cafeteria was grabbed by two of Burke’s men. Eirich later remarked that the robbers seemed to know the layout of the building perfectly and also seemed to know ahead of time that the two doors leading to the vault could not be open at the same time or the building’s security alarm could go off.

At gunpoint, Eirich walked with two members of the crew towards the vault and opened each door in succession, followed by the vault itself. With his wrists bound behind his back, Eirich watched as the vault was emptied of virtually of its cash and a considerable amount of jewelry. This was moved systematically through the vault’s corridor, with the crew members remembering to close one door before opening the other in order not to trigger the alarm. In all, 40 parcels of cash and jewelry were removed from the vault and placed in the van. By 4:16am, loading was complete and the departing gunmen told the Lufthansa employees not to call Port Authority Police until 4:30. This buffer was added based on the Port Authority police’s response time to previous alarms. At 4:21am, the van and accompanying crash car pulled away from the cargo terminal and left the airport grounds. In 64 minutes, they had stolen $5.875 million in cash and jewels.

After the robbery, the crew met Jimmy Burke at a safehouse in Brooklyn. Burke took the cash with him and went with his son to another safehouse in order to count it. Burke was allegedly expecting there to be only $2 million in the vault and was shocked at having successfully bagged nearly three times that. After leaving the safehouse, all the members of the crew quietly went on their way back to their homes; LiCastri, the Gambino representative, allegedly took the subway home instead of hitching a ride with any of the Lucchese associates. Parnell Edwards made the first mistake of the day. Instead of driving the van out to the scrapyard in New Jersey, he went to a girlfriend’s apartment and spent the day partying before passing out; the van sat outside in a no-parking zone.

The Port Authority immediately sought the assistance of the FBI. Both the local police and the FBI immediately suspected that the robbery was staged by either Burke or John Gotti, who ran a Gambino crew. The van was towed from the no-parking zone the next morning and, after being impounded, was quickly identified as the van connected with the robbery; Edwards’ fingerprints were recovered from the steering wheel and a muddy shoe print at the airport matched Edwards’ shoes. He escaped a police raid on his girlfriend’s apartment but was found shot dead in his own apartment on December 18, exactly one week after the crime. At this point, police focus moved solely to Burke and his crew.

The size of his crew’s haul caught Burke off guard, and this by itself caused unwanted media attention. The failure by Edwards to dispose of the van provided the police and FBI with a direct link between his crew and the robbery. His response, according to Henry Hill, was to panic and immediately seek to silence everyone associated with the robbery. Edwards was only the first casualty of Burke’s fear of being connected with the crime. He stashed the money and jewels in a safe deposit box and give his two daughters the only keys. Martin Krugman, who demanded $500,000 for his role in bringing the plan to Burke, was the next to go. He disappeared January 6, 1979, and his body was never found. According to Henry Hill, Krugman is buried in Robert’s Lounge, a bar near the airport owned by Burke at the time. Over the course of the next six months, Burke, allegedly murdered anyone involved with the robbery, knew of the robbery, or who tried to skim any of the resulting cash Burke tried to launder.

Burke’s murderous spree and the failure of the FBI to attain any credible evidence of his involvement in the Lufthansa Heist, meant that he was never arrested or indicted for that or anything related to the armed robbery. Burke was instead brought down by Henry Hill. After being arrested on a drug charge in 1980, Hill got wind that Burke was planning to kill him order to prevent him from divulging what he knew about Lufthansa to the police; while Hill did not participate in the robbery, he knew all the details of the plan. One month after his arrested, Hill agreed to help the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office, and he went into the Witness Relocation Program. Burke and Paul Vario were convicted of murder charges based on Hill’s testimony. Both died in prison; Vario of respiratory failure in 1988 and Burke of cancer in 1996. Vincent Asario, the Bonanno capo who allowed the robbery to take place in his organization’s territory, was arrested in 2014 in relation to Lufthansa, but was acquitted by a federal jury in November 2015.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.11 (after 1940)

1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them. 1941 – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan. 1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island. 1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict. 1958 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community. 1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle. 1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada. 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon. 1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time. 1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress. 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War. 1988 – A Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft crashes while participating in the Armenian earthquake relief, killing 78 people. 1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania. 1990 – Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured. 1993 – A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses following a landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at Ampang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors. 1994 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya. 1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely. 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature. 1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation. 1999 – SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35. 2001 – China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO). 2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. 2006 – Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War. 2008 – Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. 2009 – Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS. 2017 – New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. 2020 – The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.

[robert-de-niro-only-fans]

if you’re still taking match ups 🥺

I’m 25, 5’7, half chubby and half muscle, blue eyes, shoulder length (dyed) blonde hair. I LOVE music and play bass and guitar, and collect vinyls and cassettes. I’m a bit of a homebody but also very impulsive and love going on adventures. Definitely an introvert, but v affectionate and loud when excited. I’m a writer and enjoy reading. I also enjoy psychology, religion, history (surprise haha I love reading about the mafia!), astrology, and movies. I think I would describe my fashion sense as... business casual? but make it bisexual (because I am haha); I wear wild patterned blouses and button ups, jeans, and leather ankle boots!

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Lucky gal, you 😏

Jimmy Conway

I can't explain why I felt this way at first, but as I was reading your description, my brain was saying "Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy, that's your Jimmy girl!!!" then I read that you were interested in the mafia and that was all she wrote!

With Jimmy's crazy lifestyle, he would probably appreciate your ability to go back and forth between being introverted and being spontaneous and wanting to go on an adventure, because sometimes he likes to lie low and stay at home with his girl, but other times, he wants to take you out and show you off!

You have a really interesting set of interests, and I feel like Jimmy would put that brain to use, and he would definitely have you help him plan out heists. Hell, you were probably the mastermind behind the Lufthansa heist! I think he would also appreciate your sense of style. You could be a bit of a chameleon going back and forth between fitting in with the guys and dressing up for him on your nights out!

[russian-soft-bitch]

Who really did organise The Lufthansa heist: we did

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[365daysofsnark]

December 11

The Lufthansa Heist occurred on this day in 1978, in which thieves made off with nearly six million dollars in cash and jewelry, the largest heist on American soil at that time. It was later portrayed in the movie Goodfellas, which is a good reason to rewatch Goodfellas, and that's really the only point of this post.

[ladynearthelake]

Was definitely in the shower this morning screaming like Henry Hill after the Lufthansa heist about that baller move from Jester last night. Gonna haunt my thoughts for a while, that is.

[jimmyconbae]

Goodfellas (1990)