wiseguy life in a mafia family by nicholas pileggi

The Justice Department wanted to talk to him about his co The New York City police were in line behind the feds to ask him about the ten murders that followed the Lufthansa heist. The federal prosecutors were asking him about his role in the $6 million Lufthansa German Airlines robbery, the largest successful cash robbery in American history. He was in the Nassau County jail, facing a life sentence in a massive narcotics conspiracy.

ON TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1980, a man named Henry Hill did what seemed to him the only sensible thing to do: he decided to cease to exist. Bernstein, Laura Ward, Douglas Behm, Douglas Grover, Michael Guadagno, and Laura Brevetti, as well as Brooklyn homicide prosecutor John Fairbanks and detectives and agents Doug LeVien, Mario Sessa, Thomas Sweeney, Steve Carbone, Joel Cohen, Edmundo Guevera, Arthur Donelan, James Kapp, Daniel Ma

I would also like to thank Special Attorneys of the Organized Crime Strike Force Jerry D. Attorney Edward McDonald, who headed the Brooklyn Organized Crime Strike Force and Thomas P. Attorney Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York Asst. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.I want to acknowledge the contributions made to this book by U.S.

January 30Ĭopyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. Hill's story becomes an extraordinary vantage on a demimonde that lives a high, violent, score-to-score life in which car theft, hijacking-to-order, credit-card scams, cigarette smuggling, and other hustles and schemes are as workaday as 9-to-5 at the office. Pileggi, a crime reporter for New York writing here with Hill's cooperation, does a superb job of re-creating the gangster's career, from his early days as an errand boy (at 12) to racketeer Paulie Vario in Brooklyn's BrownsvilleEast New York section, to his pivotal roles in a Boston College point-shaving scandal and the $6-million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport in 1978. The 'wiseguy' (mob parlance for a street-level hoodlum) is Henry Hill, 30-year veteran of a Brooklyn strong-arm branch of the Luchese crime family, who turned against and helped convict his former associates five years ago and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. This is a riveting account of organized crime as a way of life.

Wiseguy life in a mafia family by nicholas pileggi