A prosecutor called the $6 million Lufthansa terminal heist in 1978 the "score of scores" as the racketeering trial of alleged career mobster Vincent Asaro, the first organized crime figure ever ...

Vincent Asaro, left , was arrested Thursday in connection with the 1978 Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport. Thomas “Tommy D” Di Fiore, bottom right, was also busted on a sweeping racketeering ...

If looks could kill, his dad would be dead. As mob turncoat Gaspare Valenti testified Tuesday at the racketeering trial of 80-year-old Vincent Asaro, his hulking son Anthony (Fat Sammy) Valenti glared ...

Several years after the spectacular 1978 Lufthansa heist, Bonanno hood Vincent Asaro rounded up his crew to do another job — punish another mobster for shooting a dog. An accused killer who apparently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feds Are Finally About to Charge Someone for the Famous 1978 Lufthansa Heist Decades after the infamous 1978 Lufthansa airport ...

“Goodfellas” mobster Vinny Asaro was acquitted Thursday in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist and a slew of other Mafia crimes, including murder — a stunning verdict that was a massive blow to ­federal ...

NEW YORK - More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6 million airport heist dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas," an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York ...

Three decades ago, a group of mobsters pulled off one of the greatest heists in U.S. history. Most of them got away with it — until Thursday, when a suspected mobster was arrested for the notorious ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A trial is underway in the case against Vincent Asaro on charges he had a role in an infamous mob heist immortalized in the hit movie "Goodfellas.'' Asaro's name hadn't ...

The Lufthansa heist — a pre-dawn raid on a currency vault at Lufthansa's Kennedy Airport hangar on December 11th, 1978, which netted its perpetrators close to $6 million in untraceable bills and ...