Henry Hill’s Second Act: Living a Double Life in the Midwest

The kid from Brooklyn turned wise guy turned rat, Henry Hill started out running errands for the Lucchese family of mobsters at the age of 11. Henry worked his way up, became an “earner,” and proved himself worthy of playing a key role in the notorious heist of Lufthansa Airlines in 1978.

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But the heist turned up the heat on all the guys connected with it. That, and Hill’s personal involvement in a drug ring, meant the feds were on to him. So, he became an informant. He and his family were put under witness protection. Suddenly, a man who never knew life outside of the mob, was walking the streets as one of us.

You can take a gangster out of the Mob, but you can’t take the Mob out of the gangster.

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