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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, Vincent Asaro leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York after beating charges that he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit film &quot;Goodfellas.&quot; On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, an appeals court says a judge properly considered a legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie &quot;Goodfellas&quot; when Asaro got eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith, File)

Prison term Ok’d for man acquitted in ‘Goodfellas’ heist

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, Vincent Asaro leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York after beating charges that he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit film &quot;Goodfellas.&quot; On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, an appeals court says a judge properly considered a legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie &quot;Goodfellas&quot; when Asaro got eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith, File)

Vincent Asaro ‘Goodfellas’ heist fair game in prison sentence in road rage arson

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015, file photo, Vincent Asaro, center, leaves federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York, after he was acquitted of charges he helped plan a legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit film &quot;Goodfellas.&quot; The legendary airport robbery has come back to haunt Asaro, an 82-year-old mobster who's been sentenced to eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson by a New York judge who cited the heist. He reacted to his sentencing Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, with disgust, calling it a &quot;death sentence.&quot; (AP Photo/Mike Balsamo, File)

Mobster acquitted in ‘Goodfellas’ heist gets prison in arson

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Mobster once charged in ‘78 heist pleads guilty to arson

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Aging mobster denied bail after alleged death threat

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

The Latest: Aging mobster pleads not guilty in 2012 arson

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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2015 file photo, Vincent Asaro leaves Brooklyn federal court in New York after beating charges that he helped plan the legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit film &quot;Goodfellas.&quot; Asaro was rearrested Wednesday, March 22, 2017, for the alleged torching of a car that cut him off in traffic. Also charged in the arson and in an unrelated bank robbery was John J. Gotti, 23, the namesake grandson of the notorious Gambino crime family boss John &quot;Dapper Don&quot; Gotti. (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith, File)

Onetime defendant in legendary Lufthansa heist is rearrested

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Vincent Asaro leaves Brooklyn federal court Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, in New York. Asaro was acquitted Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, of charges he helped plan a legendary 1978 Lufthansa heist retold in the hit film "Goodfellas." (AP Photo/Bryan R. Smith)

Vincent Asaro, aging mobster, acquitted in 1978 ‘Goodfellas’ heist

By Tom Hays and Michael Balsamo - Associated Press

In this Jan. 23, 2014, file photo, FBI agents flank Vincent Asaro as they escort him from FBI offices in New York. More than 30 years after one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history, the now 80-year-old Asaro will stand trial in New York for helping to plan the heist that became immortalized in the Martin Scorsese mob movie "Goodfellas." (Charles Eckert/Newsday, via AP, File) NYC OUT

NYC trial revisits infamous heist portrayed in ‘Goodfellas’

By Tom Hays - Associated Press

FBI agents flank Vincent Asaro as they escort the reputed mobster from FBI offices in lower Manhattan, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in New York. More than 30 years after the crime, Asaro was indicted in the $6 million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport that was dramatized in the Martin Scorsese movie &quot;Goodfellas.&quot; (AP Photo/Newsday, Charles Eckert) NYC LOCALS OUT

Feds in NYC charge 5 in ‘Goodfellas’ sequel

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

** FILE ** This Jan. 12, 2014 file photo shows Martin Scorsese at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Scorsese was nominated for an Academy Award for best director on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, for the film "The Wolf of Wall Street." The 86th Academy Awards will be held on March 2. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, FIle)

Indictment in notorious 1978 JFK Lufthansa heist dramatized in ‘Goodfellas’

By Tom Hays - Associated Press