Talk:Jimmy Burke (gangster)
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[edit] Movie
The tv movie Ten Million Dollar Getaway also covered Lufthansa.
[edit] Conway or Burke?
Shouldn't he be referred to as Conway, given the title of the article? It seems inconsistent to then refer to him as Burke throughout the article.
- Conway wasn't his name, the title itself is wrong.
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- The situation appears to be this: James Burke was his real name, but in the movie Goodfellas his character was called Conway. (This was presumably because the real person was alive while the movie was being made.) By implying Conway and Burke are two names for the same person, editors (including myself) have blurred the line between fact and fiction. Clearly the article is in need of a major overhaul and renaming. -- FP (talk)(edits) 09:22, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
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- OK, I have made the move. This page was formerly called Jimmy Conway but is now Jimmy Burke (gangster) with a disambig page at Jimmy Burke. I have updated all links to this article as well. -- FP (talk)(edits) 03:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pair or three people?
"Burke was a mentor of Thomas DeSimone, Franky Fortuna and Henry Hill, who were both teenagers in the 1960s. They carried out errands for Burke, such as selling stolen merchandise. When they were older, the pair helped Burke with the hijacking of delivery trucks." <- this section is inconsistent, as it's either Thomas DeSimone, Franky Fortuna and Henry Hill or a pair. Or it's a trio. Or the pair consists of only two of the mentioned people. Anyway, it's not right. Does anyone know whether it was all three of them to help with the hijackings or just two? If two, which two? My only knowledge of this comes from Goodfellas.
[edit] Conway/burke's daughter
burke's daughter is mentioned in this NYTimes story, if anyone knows how to add this to the Conway/Burke profile.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company The New York Times February 17, 2006 Friday Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section B; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk; Pg. 7 LENGTH: 418 words HEADLINE: Mob Figure Is Charged in Plot To Kill a Rival Gangster BYLINE: By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM BODY:
A man convicted 20 years ago in one of organized crime's most infamous assassinations was charged again yesterday with murder and racketeering.
This time, the mob figure, Anthony Indelicato, 58, of Howard Beach, Queens, is accused of plotting to kill a rival by masquerading as a police officer.
Mr. Indelicato is identified by prosecutors as a soldier in the Bonanno crime family. He was charged along with a Bronx man they say is the family's newly minted acting boss, Michael Mancuso, 52.
The two men were added yesterday to an indictment that already charges the crime family's previous provisional leader, Vincent Basciano, with killing another mob figure.
That case is expected to go to trial next year in United States District Court in Brooklyn. Mr. Mancuso and Mr. Basciano, who is known as Vinny Gorgeous because he used to own a beauty salon called Hello Gorgeous, are both eligible for the death penalty. Mr. Indelicato faces life in prison.
That case, in which Mr. Basciano is also accused of plotting to kill a federal prosecutor, is among two murder trials with which Mr. Basciano must contend. A jury is being selected in the same courthouse to weigh charges in the killing of another mob figure. One of his co-defendants and close associates, Dominick Cicale, recently began cooperating with prosecutors.
At his arraignment yesterday before Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, Mr. Indelicato pleaded not guilty. He was ordered held without bail. His lawyer, Robert Blossner, would not comment on the case.
Mr. Indelicato is no stranger to organized crime accusations. He and some members of his family have played a range of roles in some of the most cinematic moments in mob history. He was convicted in 1986 of being one of the three masked gunmen who shot Carmine Galante, then the boss of the Bonanno crime family, from close range in the garden of a Brooklyn restaurant. A widely published photograph showed Mr. Galante, dead and bloodied on the floor, a cigar still clenched in his teeth. It came to symbolize the chilling brutality of Mafia discipline.
Anthony Indelicato's father, Alphonse Indelicato, was also the victim of an infamous mob murder, and his wife, Cathy Burke, is the daughter of James Burke, a legendary figure known as Jimmy the Gent, who masterminded the multimillion dollar Lufthansa robbery in 1978.
Robert De Niro portrayed Mr. Burke in the film Goodfellas. The younger Mr. Indelicato and Ms. Burke met in a federal prison, when she was visiting her father. LOAD-DATE: February 17, 2006
[edit] Mugshots
I'm just curious but how did you find a mugshot of Burke, because I'm searching for one of William 'Billy Batts' DeVino from his 1964 arrest in Connecticut.
[edit] His prison whackings
In Gangsters and GoodFellas Hill says that he was involved in some murders whilst in prison, at a very young age. Has anyone got any idea of any of the victims.
[edit] Who has editted off the 'Child Murders' section
This is a highly relevant and important character index to portray the true brutality and borderline insanity of Burke and doesn't refer to specific incidents.
I would like to indicate that Burke was truly formidable and incredulously disturbed person and that the source of the information about his murder of infants is just as substantiated as any other pieces of evidence in this article.
If I do not receive correspondence within 2 weeks I'm re-instating the Child Murders section because a person who truly knew aboyt Burke and thus had justification to remove this information will be visiting the page within that time. If they don't I presume that they either have no justification or it was pure malice.
Next time someone's work is deleted could a proper explaination please be provided.
JBAK
- I don't know if this is what you're referring to, but: I came to this article tracking other "contributions" by a mindless vandal who hit one of the pages I monitor. He/she made this edit, which I have just reverted. --A. B. 19:45, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Confirmation of his murders
Although the FBI has confirmed it's estimates that he killed upwards of 50 people we need names, we can only say William DeVino, Remo, the 13 Lufthansa people and that's really about it, we need to start working to get some actual names. I don't know if there's a database of deceased lcn- related criminals (lol, it would make putting these articles together a lot easier) but it would help out the article. I've read just about every mob book I can find relating to Burke but it just seems that Henry Hill likes to exaggerate and I think it could, in hindsight, be a little unfair to him to call him a child- killer without any confirmed victims.
Opinions anyone?
JBAK 21:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Air France Robbery (1967)
I've seen in that article this paragraph: "It was carried out by Hill, Robert McMahon and Jimmy Burke, on a tip off from McMahon." But I can't keep wondering why there is no single mention about this robbery in this article about Jimmy Burke. --Vlad|-> 10:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
