Gaspare Valenti testifies against cousin Vincent Asaro and jurors acquire a lesson in Mafia-speak,family betrayal and one of the largest thefts in US historyOn 17 February 2011, Vincent Asaro and his cousin Gaspare Valenti were chatting in Sonny’s, or an auto repair shop in Queens owned by one of their associates. The recording of the conversation is so muffled by hammering that it is unclear who is talking,but the words are discernible: “I believe nothing in the house to eat. I believe nothing, no food. Fucking nothing.”
How the much are fallen. Thirty-two years earlier, and on 11 December 1978,the pair were allegedly part of the 12-man team that carried off one of the most audacious deeds of the New York mafia – the Lufthansa robbery at JFK airport that netted $5m in untraceable cash and a further million in jewellery.
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Source: theguardian.com