It was the centerpiece of Goodfellas, an inside job on a Lufthansa cargo plane that left a mafia crew with $5 million in cash and $1 million in jewels in the final days of 1978. The supposed mastermind, James Burke, died while serving time in prison over unrelated charges, and while the relative complexity of the heist means many more people must have been involved, no further arrests were ever made.
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