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The Lufthansa Heist’ goes inside the daring $6M caper
NY Post ^ | 12/15/2014 | Cindy Adams

Posted on 12/16/2014 4:58:39 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

1978. Kennedy Airport. A $6 million daring armed robbery. This, history’s largest unrecovered cash haul, was memorialized in “Goodfellas.” Now comes “The Lufthansa Heist.” Daniel Simone’s co-author is the caper’s mastermind, the late Henry Hill. Simone: “I lived nearby and, dating a Lufthansa stewardess, the story mesmerized me. Authorities knew within minutes who did it. An airline shipping agent schemed the idea, told it to a bookmaker to whom he was indebted and who then brought the plan to Hill. The bookie was killed. Thirteen major suspects got done away with. Henry Hill was eventually expelled from the witness protection system since he felt all involved were dead and gone.

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