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‘At least ninety robberies, grand larcenies.’ Robbed, ESPN short 2014
As his numbers and loan-sharking operations flourished, he expanded into a new mob racket: lorry hijackings. Mobsters s3e6: Big Joey Massino, Bio 2011
When he was nineteen, after six years in juvenile detention, Joe [Mad Dog Sullivan] was released. He returned to Queens to live with his family ... After a couple of weeks he took off hitchhiking with a friend but they quickly ran out of money and to get by they began mugging people. Mobsters s4e1: Mad Dog Sullivan
[Greg] Scarpa ran his own crew ambushing truck drivers at gunpoint. Mobsters s4e7: Grim Reaper: Greg Scarpa
December 11th 1978: a black van pulled up to the Lufthansa cargo terminal. Four men got out ... The money was completely untraceable ... Nearly six million dollars. Mobsters s4e8: Jimmy the Gent Burke
He kept money flowing to Paul Vario and the Lucchese crime family. ibid.
The [cargo] hijackings brought in cash by the truckload. ibid.
Lufthansa: seventy-two boxes of cash, jewellery and gold bullion into the back of the van. ibid.
[Henry] Hill was arrested on April 27th 1980. ibid.
A mastermind targets one of New York’s most famous landmarks. With surgical precision he and his crew take control of the Pierre Hotel for an entire night. And steal millions belonging to society’s elite. Masterminds s1e9: The Pierre Hotel Heist, History 2003
Within ten minutes Comfort and Nalo have taken all nineteen employees hostage. Now they face their greatest challenge: take over hotel operations and keep everything running smoothly. ibid.
In a single box he finds $800,000 in cash. ibid.
Back at their hideout Bobby divides up the cash and keeps the gems to be fenced. He has pulled off his greatest heist – over $10,000,000 in cash and jewels. His only problem will be his right-hand man ... Bobby Comfort has pulled off the hotel heist of the century. ibid.
Naylor has gambling debts with the Mob. ibid.
The would-be buyer is an FBI associate. ibid.
On December 11th 1978 the biggest robbery in US history took place, the Lufthansa Heist. It was the perfect robbery and the mastermind behind it was the Irish gangster Jimmy the Gent Burke. The Irish Mob s1e3, 2016
The basis for Robert De Niro’s character in the film Goodfellas. ibid.
Jimmy Burke was one of the richest and most powerful gangstas in New York. ibid.
Burke was sentenced to life in prison where he died on April of 1996 at the age of 64. ibid.
In the 1970s a war was fought for control of the Cleveland rackets in Ohio, a war that ripped the city apart. On one side was the Mafia, and on the other was the Irishman known as the Celtic warrior, Danny Greene. ibid.
Multiple assassination attempts failed. And Greene put it all down to the luck of the Irish. ibid.
Miami was the fashionable sixties hangout where the beach boys and girls of the East Coast showed off their tans and their physiques. Great Crimes & Trials s1e23: Murph the Surf, BBC 1993
A trio of surfers left their boards in Miami and flew north to the chill of New York. They were Roger Frederick Clark aged twenty-nine ... Alan Kuhn ... Jack Roland Murphy also known as Murph the Surf. ibid.
On the night of 29th October they went museum-visiting again after it had closed ... The windows were left routinely two inches open. Amazed to realise there were no alarms they helped themselves to twenty-four of the choicest stones and escaped undetected. ibid.
The Museum of Natural History where the robbery had only been discovered when a guard arrived for work. ibid.
The burglar alarm system had been disconnected several years before as an economy measure. ibid.
New York’s press were shocked at the daring of the robbery. ibid.
The Midnight Star sapphire – one hundred and sixty-one carats; on the right, the de Long Star ruby – a hundred carats; and as big as a golf ball the Star of India – at five hundred and sixty-five. ibid.
Explaining that there was a world of difference between beach boys which they were and beach bums which were parasites. ibid.
Actress Ava Gabor identified Murphy and Kuhn as the men who had forced their way into her apartment, beating her up and stealing her jewellery worth $50,000. ibid.
They pleaded guilty ... In the end they each got three consecutive one-year sentences. ibid.
Murph the Surf kept popping up in the public eye. ibid.
He was arrested for murder. ibid.
Colombo also made money from hijacking trucks and cargos. Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e3: Joe Colombo: The Maverick Mobster, Yesterday 2012
In 1976 New York was facing a wave of truck hijackings. Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e8: Donnie Brasco: Undercover in the Mob
He is one of the most prolific bank robbers in American history. American Gangster s2e8: Chaz Williams, 2007
In 1971 his crew got caught. ibid.
In September of 1975 he was found guilty of armed bank robbery. ibid.
It begins with a rash of high stakes burglaries throughout New York. It ends more than two decades later in a massive police department scandal. A dagger to the heart of the city. Taking Down the Mob, National Geographic (US) 2011
This story proves the Mafia still has clout. ibid.
Wire-taps reveal members of several New York organised crime families took part in the Bulova heist. ibid.
The detectives have stumbled on to a notorious band of burglars. Nicknamed by police the Bypass Gang. ibid.
The Bypass Gang is robbing the city blind. The heists throughout the New York area continue unabated. ibid.
Dominick [Costa] is so good he can open the toughest safes on the planet. ibid.
Each time detectives put enough muscle on a mobster to get him to agree to cooperate, somehow words gets out. ibid.
Information on dozens of mob cases continued to leak out. But how? ibid.