When Hill died in June 2012, Asaro and Valenti chatted about an upcoming memorial service for Hill, with Valenti asking Asaro if he planned to attend. “He made a big thing that he was on the score and he wasn’t,” Valenti said on tape. On tapes that were played for the jury, Valenti and Asaro could be heard complaining that Hill got too much credit for the robbery. He subsequently recorded hundreds of hours of conversation with Asaro, during which Hill’s name occasionally surfaced. Valenti was also a key participant in the heist.Ī former Bonanno soldier and the cousin of Asaro, Valenti became a mob turncoat in 2011. Asaro, who oversaw the Bonanno family’s criminal operations at JFK, assisted Burke with the orchestration of the robbery. Hill took Krugman’s information to Burke, who quickly pulled together a robbery crew and masterminded the $6 million score.
The “Marty” he referred to was Martin Krugman, a hairstylist and mob associate who had received a tip that large amounts of currency were flown monthly to the Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK Airport. attorney Nicole Argentieri asked Valenti about Hill’s role in the 1978 robbery, he replied, “He brought Marty to Jimmy Burke.” Henry Hill (photo above on the right) was the star character in Nick Pileggi’s book, “Wiseguy,” and also in Martin Scorsese’s movie, “ Goodfellas.”īut he seemed to have few fans among the wiseguys and goodfellas who knew him during the time of the Lufthansa Airlines heist.Īt the federal racketeering trial of Vincent Asaro, now in its second week, Asaro and government informant Gaspare Valenti can be heard on tape repeatedly denigrating Hill. His latests book Badge 387: The Story of Jim Simone, America's Most Decorated Cop is available on Amazon and at stores near you.)
By Robert Sberna ( He will follow Vincent Asaro's trial for Gangsters Inc.
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