Paolo LiCastri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Paolo LiCastri

American mobster

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 13-Jun-1979

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Paolo LiCastri

  • The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F.
  • Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978.
  • An estimated $5.875 million (equivalent to $22.6 million in 2018) was stolen, with $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewelry, making it the largest cash robbery committed on American soil at the time.
  • In popular culture, it is the main subject of two well-known television films—The 10 Million Dollar Getaway (1991) and The Big Heist (2001)—and is a key plot element in the film Goodfellas (1990).
  • The heist's magnitude made it one of the longest-investigated crimes in the United States; the latest arrest associated with the robbery was made in 2014.
  • Jimmy Burke was reputed to be the mastermind of the robbery, but he was never officially charged in connection with the crime.

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