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Jimmy was the kind of guy who cheered for the crooks in a movie. He named his sons Frank and Jesse after the James brothers. He looked like a fighter. He had a broken nose and a lot of hands. He had a reputation for being wild. Jimmy would plant you just as fast as shake your hand. At dinner he could be the nicest guy in the world, but he would blow you away for desert.” In 1962 when he and his fiance Mickey, a coat-check girl, were planning their marriage, he found out that an ex-boyfriend was harassing her. On their wedding day, the police found the remains of his wife’s old boyfriend. The body had been cut up into a dozen pieces and scattered all over the inside of his car. Burke ran his operation from a dingy bar called the Roberts Lounge located not far from Kennedy Airport in Ozone Park, Queens. Here, gathered around the five pay telephones, or sitting at the bar, he and his crew ran their scams and socialized with the underworld rabble that operated out of the airport just down the street: loan sharks, hijackers, bookmakers and strong arm artists. Legitimate customers were soon driven away and it became a social club for thieves and gangsters. THE REAL GOODFELLAS Tommy "Two Guns" Desimone Paul "Paulie" Vario Henry and Karen Hill Henry Hill 1980 Parnell Steven "Stacks" Edwards

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The names Jimmy Conway, i was an Irish-American gangster who is believed to have organized the Lufthansa heist in 1978. Nicknamed Jimmy "The Gent", most people are familiar with me via Robert Deniros depiction in that movie "Goodfellas""Jimmy The Gent"It is rumoured that Burke committed a number of murders for the Mafia during the 1950s, in addition to plenty of other crimes such as importing cheap cigarettes and buying even cheaper liquor. He got married in 1962 to a woman called Mickey . He fathered a daughter and two sons, Frank James Burke and Jesse James Burke, (named after the famous outlaw brothers of the Old West). It is rumored to have murdered and dismembered an ex-boyfriend of his bride because he was being a nuisance.Burke was a mentor of Thomas DeSimone and Henry Hill, who were both teenagers in the 1960s. They carried out errands for Burke, such as selling stolen merchandise. When they were older, the pair helped Burke with the hijacking of delivery trucks. According to Hill, Burke would usually give $50 to the drivers of the trucks they stole, as if he were tipping them for the inconvenience, which lead to his nickname Jimmy The Gent.Roberts Lounge bar, which was located in Ozone Park, Queens, was a favorite hangout of Burke and Fortuna (before his marriage to Lisa), along with many other mobsters and criminals. Burke eventually began a loan shark and bookmaking operation that was based at the bar.In 1972, Jimmy Burke and Henry Hill were arrested for beating up a man who owed a Boss a large gambling debt. They were charged with extortion, convicted, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Burke was paroled after six years, then went straight back to crime, as did Hill, who got out around the same time. Hill shortly began dealing in cocaine, and Burke was soon in on this new enterprise, even though the Lucchese Family, to whom they were loosely attached, did not authorize any of its members to deal in drugs. This ban was made because the prison sentences imposed on anyone convicted of drug trafficking were so lengthy that the accused would often become informants in exchange for a lighter sentence. This is exactly what Henry Hill would eventually do.

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