wiseguy life in a mafia family by nicholas pileggi

He had never even flown on an airplane using a ticket made out in his own name. He had never voted and he had never paid taxes. His Social Security cards and driver's licenses-he had several of each- were forged and made out to fictitious names. His car was registered in his wife's name. His home was apparently owned by his mother-in-law. It should be said that it was slightly easier for Henry Hill to cease to exist than it might have been for an average citizen, since the actual evidence of Hill's existence was extraordinarily slim. His wife, Karen, and their children, Judy, fifteen, and Ruth, twelve, ceased to exist along with him. Under the circumstances, Henry made his decision: he became part of the Justice Department's Federal Witness Protection Program. His arrest was just another of dozens of the slightly exaggerated multimillion-dollar drug busts that police make a

There were no front-page stories in the newspapers and no segments on the evening news. When Henry Hill had been arrested only three weeks earlier, it hadn't been big news. 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. I want to acknowledge the contributions made to this book by U.S.

Wiseguy life in a mafia family by nicholas pileggi