lufthansa heist

NEW YORK (AP) — An aging mobster threw his hands in the air and shouted "Free!" after his acquittal on charges he helped plan the 1978 Lufthansa heist that was retold in the hit Mafia movie "Goodfellas."

Wednesday, November 11th, 2015

Edward A. McDonald was there to deal with the real Henry Hill and the New York Crime Family involved in the Lufthanza Heist in 1978.  A decade later he was also on the set of Martin Scorsese's blockbuster, Goodfellas, playing himself as the prosecutor from the Justice Department who put the deal together for Hill and his girlfriend Karen, to enter the witness protection program...

If you have ever seen the classic mobster movie "Goodfellas," you may be familiar with the last heist the guys pulled off at JFK Airport - it's that job that triggered Robert DeNiro's character Jimmy to go off the deep-end and begin knocking off his crew members.