Vincent Asaro

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Vincent Asaro
Born	1935 Ozone Park, Queens, New York

Vincent "Vinny" Asaro (born 1935) is a New York City mobster and captain in the Bonanno crime family.^[1]

According to Lucchese crime family associate turned informant Henry Hill, Asaro was a caporegime in the Bonanno crime family who oversaw the family's interests in JFK airport.^[2] Asaro is the nephew of Michael Zaffarano and since the 1970s, controlled a crew in the Queens faction in the crime family.

On January 23, 2014 Asaro was indicted along with on federal racketeering charges based around the 1978 Lufthansa heist.^[3] He is also a suspect in the death of Paul Katz (killed 1969) whose remains were found in 2013.^[4] Arrested along with Asaro was his son capo Jerome Asaro, acting boss Thomas Di Fiore, acting capo Jack Bonventre, and soldier John Ragano.^[4]

References

↑ Norimitsu Onishi (March 19, 1995). "Your Car, the Sitting Duck". New York Times.
↑ Allan May. "The Lufthansa Heist Revisited". Tru TV Crime Library.
↑ Selim Algar; Jamie Schram, Larry Celona, Bruce Golding (2014-01-23). "Mobster charged in 'Goodfellas' JFK Lufthansa heist". New York Post.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Larry McShane; John Marzulli (2014-01-24). "Feds charge mobster in $6 million Lufthansa heist at Kennedy Airport that was portrayed in 'Goodfellas'". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2014-01-23.

Bonanno crime family

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Made men	Salvatore Bonanno Cesare Bonventre Giovanni Bonventre Patrick DeFilippo Alfred Embarrato Carmine Galante Philip Giaccone Al Indelicato Paolo LiCastri Nicholas Marangello Anthony Mirra Salvatore Montagna John Morales Dominic Napolitano Benjamin Ruggiero Michael Sabella Gerlando Sciascia Anthony Spero John Tartamella Antonio Tomasulo Dominick Trinchera

Associates	Costabile Farace Robert Perrino

Informants	Richard Cantarella Frank Coppa Joseph D'Amico Frank Lino Joseph Massino Salvatore Vitale Raymond Wean

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Hearings	Kefauver Committee (1950–1951) Valachi hearings (1963)

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Joseph D. Pistone
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia (1988 book)
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Persondata
Name	Asaro, Vincent
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Date of birth	1935
Place of birth	Ozone Park, Queens, New York, USA
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