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Treasury agents were looking for the crates of automatic weapons and Claymore mines he had had stolen from a Connecticut armory. The Organized Crime Strike Force wanted to know about the Boston College basketball players he had bribed in a point-shaving scheme. The Justice Department wanted to talk to him about his connection with a murder that also involved Michele Sindona, the convicted Italian financier. The New York City police were in line behind the feds to ask him about the ten murders that followed the Lufthansa heist. The federal prosecutors were asking him about his role in the $6 million Lufthansa German Airlines robbery, the largest successful cash robbery in American history. He was in the Nassau County jail, facing a life sentence in a massive narcotics conspiracy.

=INTRODUCTION= ON TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1980, a man named Henry Hill did what seemed to him the only sensible thing to do: he decided to cease to exist. Bernstein, Laura Ward, Douglas Behm, Douglas Grover, Michael Guadagno, and Laura Brevetti, as well as Brooklyn homicide prosecutor John Fairbanks and detectives and agents Doug LeVien, Mario Sessa, Thomas Sweeney, Steve Carbone, Joel Cohen, Edmundo Guevera, Arthur Donelan, James Kapp, Daniel Mann, Jack Walsh, Alfie McNeil, Ben Panzarella, Steve DelCorso, and John Wales. I would also like to thank Special Attorneys of the Organized Crime Strike Force Jerry D.

Attorney Edward McDonald, who headed the Brooklyn Organized Crime Strike Force and Thomas P. Attorney Raymond Dearie of the Eastern District of New York Asst. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-22047 ISBN: 2-9 First Pocket Books printing February 1987 eBook scanned & proofed by Binwiped 11-15-02 =AUTHOR'S NOTE= I want to acknowledge the contributions made to this book by U.S.