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James Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996), also known as "Jimmy the Gent", was an American gangster and Lucchese crime family associate who is believed to have organized the 1978 Lufthansa heist, the largest cash robbery in American history at the time. He was believed to be responsible for the deaths of those involved in the months after ...
James “ Jimmy the Gent ” Burke was one of the most notorious Irish-American gangsters of all time, a violent, ruthless criminal responsible for countless murders and one of the largest cash robberies in American history. He was also one of the real-life goodfellas. Burke was never an official member of the mafia.
The infamous New York City gangster Jimmy Burke, the inspiration for Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, always had a knack for getting away with things. As an Irish-American, Burke was never formally inducted into a Mafia family.
Krugman passed the tip to mid-level drug-dealing gangster Henry Hill, who pulled in his mentor Jimmy “the Gent” Burke, whose crew was known for hijacking and robbing cargo trucks coming from...
The mastermind behind the Lufthansa heist was the mobster Jimmy Burke (“Jimmy Conway,” played by Robert De Niro, in Goodfellas). Accompanied by several associates, including Parnell “Stacks” Edwards (played by Samuel L. Jackson) and Tommy DeSimone (played by Joe Pesci), he managed to steal $5 million in cash and an additional $875,000 ...
James Burke A.K.A. “Jimmy The Gent”. Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images James Burke’s true story was one of the most memorable ones dramatized in Goodfellas. James Burke, played by Robert De Niro as “Jimmy Conway” in the film, was the principal architect of the Lufthansa heist.
Tommy DeSimone is believed to have been killed in retaliation for the murders of John Gotti’s men, William “Billy Batts” Bentvena, and Foxy Jerothe, while Jimmy Burke was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1982, getting 20 more years in 1985 for the murder of a drug dealer in 1979. Jimmy Burke died in April ...
