Posted on 12/06/2005 10:28:29 AM PST by SmithL
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Henry Hill, the former mobster immortalized in "Goodfellas," was sentenced Monday to 180 days in jail for threatening his wife and another man last summer.
The judge ordered the sentence to be served concurrently with a six-month term Hill is already serving for attempted methamphetamine possession. Hill pleaded no contest to making terroristic threats.
Hill, portrayed by Ray Liotta in the 1990 mob movie, was also given credit for time served after Hill's wife and the other victim wrote letters on his behalf.
The victims told the judge they didn't want Hill to receive additional jail time. Hill, 62, will complete both the sentences Dec. 29.
Police say Hill threatened his wife with a knife on July 8 at a hotel, then followed her after she left and threatened the man who had been waiting for her.
Hill told The Associated Press last week that this current jail sentence had given him a chance to sober up, and now he has another chance to live a "normal life."
Hill sought refuge in the witness protection program after agreeing to testify against his former New York mob bosses. He has since left the program and lives in North Platte with his wife, who is from the area.
...so you think I'm funny...
"For us to live any other way was nuts. To us, those goody-good people who worked s****y jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no b**ls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again"
He also sounds like a bigger loser than he looks. I doubt the story about a contract being put out on him he's such a little worm anybody wanted him dead could get it done for free.
From a rat to "The Mouse That Roared".
If this clown is any indication of the "mob" and the idiots that join it, then I don't really see it as that big a problem. They are the ones that prey on weaker people, and they are weak themselves. They have no respect for themselves and turn on each other like rats in a frenzy. I do not feel sorry for them one bit, and hope they all go to jail for a long time.
Henry Hill really gave Nicholas Pileggi one hell of a BS war story if you ask me.
The real story is that most of Henry's adversaries are now dead. He outlived them all!
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