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.