Facing the Frenemies From Time to Time
He told others that he was an insurance investigator for arson cases (completely fake, but he had some experience with torching places down). As for what he told his buddies at the bar, his cover was classic: he worked for the CIA. Over the years, he would fly to New York to testify against Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke, his old accomplices.
Henry Hill. Source: YouTube
The seasoned gangster was still an anxious man. “It’s not easy getting up on the stand,” he later said of turning his back on his ex-mentors. He was back off the wagon – drinking, drugging – risking his cover while his family did everything they could to lay low. There was a reported two-million-dollar contract on his head and word was getting out that Hill was living in the Midwest.