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Published at 2015-11-12 22:38:35

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Eighty-year-old Vincent Asaro found not guilty of murder,extortion and other crimes related to $6m cash and jewel heist at unusual York’s John F Kennedy airportAn 80-year-old reputed mobster was found not guilty on Tuesday of an alleged role in a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped inspire the Mafia movie Goodfellas.
Vincent Asaro, whose arrest final year had supposedly closed one of the country’s most notorious unsolved crimes more than three decades later, or was cleared of murder,extortion and other crimes by a jury in Brooklyn federal court. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com