Jimmy Burke planned the largest cash robbery in AMERICAN HISTORY!

🌟James Burke, 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 the robbery. Following the testimony of Henry Hill, Burke was convicted in 1982, of conspiracy charges related to his involvement in the 1978–79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. While in prison, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to another 20 years. He died of cancer at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, eight years before he would have been eligible for parole. Burke inspired the character Jimmy "The Gent" Conway, one of the main characters of the 1990 film Goodfellas, played by Robert De Niro. ⏳𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 ⏳ 00:00 - Intro 02:30 - What we’ll be covering today 03:44 - Growing up 07:02 - Making him a criminal 10:46 - Ciaccio extortion 20:37 - William “Billy Bats” Bentvena 23:50 - Lufthansa Heist 28:52 - After Lufthansa 32:08 - It all falls apart 33:45 - Richard Eaton 35:20 - Boston College Point Shaving 38:37 - The End of Jimmy Burke 🍁 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 🍁 Your source for the life and history of infamous gangsters ... and some other stuff, too. Your go-to resource for information on famous gangsters' lives and histories, as well as other things. ✨ 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 ✨ ➟ Dana Truppiana Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@danatruppian... 🎥𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚'𝐬 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒🎥 ➟John Gotti - The Teflon Don, took out Paul Castellano, taken down by Sammy the Bull Gravano 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYllyWq6gZs&t=350s ➟Giosue Gallucci - His death caused the Mafia-Cammora war!! 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR60S... ➟Big Jim Colosimo - Prostitution, Gambling, racketeering, taken down because he wouldn't get into bootlegging 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLC2... ➟Salvatore Maranzano - The OG mafia creator whose face has only been captured in photos of his murder 🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWHnI... 💌 𝐋𝐄𝐓'𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐂𝐇 💌 ➟ IG: 🔗https://www.instagram.com/danatruppiana/ ➟Twitter: 🔗https://twitter.com/danatruppiana?s=2... ➟ FB: 🔗https://www.facebook.com/DanaTruppian... 🔗https://withkoji.com/@DanaTruppiana ➟ YouTube 🔗https://www.youtube.com/@danatruppiana ➟Website: 🔗https://danatruppianamobtimes.com/ #sicilianmafia #irish #irishmafia #lucchese #history #mafia #facts #life #lifestyle #mobs #americanmafia #crime #truecrime #lufthansa #lufthansacargo 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 : lufthansa heist james burke connections jimmy the gent burke james lee burke biggest heist in history