Why Henry Hill Hated His Partner Jimmy Burke So Much

Why Henry Hill Hated His Partner Jimmy Burke So Much There is a photograph taken in 1979 in a New York police file. Jimmy Burke looks straight into the lens, broken nose, expressionless eyes. A mugshot, one of many arrests. America later looked at that photograph through Robert De Niro in Goodfellas and called Burke a criminal genius. The man in the photo organized the largest cash robbery in American history, taking nearly 6 million dollars from the Lufthansa cargo warehouse at JFK in December 1978, then killed nearly all of his crew to keep the money. His closest partner, Henry Hill, the man who brought the original tip that made the robbery possible, did not receive a cent. Hill was on the list to be dealt with next. Twenty-five years as a partner, and the reward was an FBI tape recording Burke’s voice discussing how to kill him. It starts in Brooklyn. But before Brooklyn, hold on to that tape, because it tells you what kind of partnership this was.