NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --An aging mobster lived a long life of crime highlighted by the $6 million heist in 1978 that was retold in the classic Mafia movie "Goodfellas,'' a prosecutor said Friday in ...

Hoping to finally slam the legal door on one of the most iconic crimes in American history, a prosecutor squarely accused “Goodfellas” goon Vinny Asaro of key involvement in the famed 1978 Lufthansa ...

NEW YORK - More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6 million airport heist dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas," an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York ...

NEW YORK -- An aging mobster threw his hands into the air and shouted "Free," grinning as he walked out of a courthouse following his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan the legendary 1978 ...

Painting them as “despicable … liars” looking for government paydays, an attorney for accused “Goodfellas” mobster Vincent Asaro urged jurors to dismiss the testimony of mob canaries during her ...

To the feds, Vincent Asaro is one of the masterminds the 1978 Lufthansa robbery immortalized in the mob movie “Goodfellas.” To the nervous witness squirming on the stand Friday, Asaro was “my cousin ...

If he ends up dying behind bars, Bonanno family oldfella Vincent Asaro won’t take anybody down with him. Mob veteran Asaro, 82, informed a federal judge that he was no rat before she accepted his ...

New York may have recorded a dramatic fall in crime this year, including the lowest annual murder total since the 1950s, but a sentencing hearing in Brooklyn on Thursday revealed the persistence of ...

Witnesses talk about wiseguys, rats and hiding bodies, and list the do’s and don’ts of organized crime. A tattoo on the defendant’s arm reads “Death before dishonor.” Peppered into riveting testimony ...

Reporting from New York — In a decision that shocked even the defendant, a jury on Thursday cleared an old-school mobster of charges he helped carry out a record-setting heist nearly 40 years ago that ...

NEW YORK — For nearly half a century, the reputed wiseguy Vincent Asaro has escaped conviction on an array of criminal charges, having been accused — and then acquitted — of, among other things, ...