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Aging Gangster Accused Of Goodfellas Heist Goes On Trial Summary

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Julie Gillen
Professor Chazelle
HIS 460-01
02/09
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"Aging Gangster Accused of 'Goodfellas' Heist Goes on Trial." New Orleans CityBusiness (Oct 19, 2015). https://ezproxy.tcnj.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/aging-gangster-accused-goodfellas-heist-goes-on/docview/1725295384/se-2. This article focuses on Vincent Asaro, a member of the Italian Mafia in New York City. Asaro was facing charges of conspiracy in the Lufthansa Heist, one of the most infamous robberies of all time. Asaro claimed that he played no part in the heist, but since the robbery took place on his “turf” he received a cut of the money stolen in the heist. Vincent Asaro was also charged with the knowledge of a murder in 1969.
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DeStefano. The article focuses on DeStefano’s concentration on Vincent Asaro, a former mobster who was in court for charges related to organized crime. DeStefano does not provide an unbiased opinion of Asaro, he clearly shows his distaste for Asaro and his friends and family. The review concludes with a caution to readers that this book will not please many readers of true crime because of its familiarity.
Casillo, Robert. Review of Scenes from the Eastern Frontier, by Martin Scorsese. Italian Americana 9, no. 2 (1991): 271–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29776100. This source is an article that gives a synopsis of the 1990 film, Goodfellas. The article summarizes a lot of the timeline and plot of the movie before beginning to analyze Goodfellas against the other films the director, Martin Scorsese, had previously produced. After discussing multiple of Scorsese’s other films the author, Robert Casillo, moves on to discuss the real Henry Hill, his rise to power, and his betrayal of the crime “family” he worked for. Robert Casillo also discusses the acting of the main characters and previously famous actors, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta. Specifically, Casillo compares the acting of the main characters to the actions of the real-life people that their characters were based on, and the representation the actors portrayed them …show more content…

The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World. Guilford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2016. This book was written by Henry Hill himself, along with his friend Daniel Simone. Both men wrote this book to tell the world an inside view of the Lufthansa Heist, a robbery that baffles the public eye to this day. The book tells readers how no one was ever apprehended for the crime, and even how thirteen people who are suspected to be connected to the robbery, were “mysteriously” killed in unsolved crimes. Henry Hill and Daniel Simone use this book as a way to tell the world secrets that only someone involved in the operation could know.
My Blue Heaven. My Blue Heaven. United States of America: Warner Bros., 1990.

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