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Henry Hill, the Lufthansa Heist & Michael Franzese: The Prosecutor's Side
He's the federal prosecutor who played himself in Goodfellas, and he knew the real Henry Hill better than almost anyone.
Former organized crime prosecutor Ed McDonald joins me for the story behind the movie: the 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK, the bodies that piled up afterward, Jimmy Burke, Tommy DeSimone and John Gotti, and what Henry Hill was really like once he flipped and went into witness protection (and how he kept blowing his cover).
Then: the Boston College point-shaving scandal, and how prosecutors built the case against Michael Franzese and the Colombo family's multimillion-dollar…
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