The Real Goodfella Henry Hill REAL STORIES

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rise and fall of Henry Hill the real good fella has violence and strong language from the start [Music] [Applause] [Music] at the age of 12 my ambition was to be a gangster to me being a wiseguy was better than being president United States to be a wiseguy was to own the world [Music] this is Henry Hill Henry spent half his life running with one of the most violent mafia gangs in America having to do whatever was asked of him to survive his life in the mob was made infamous by Martin Scorsese's gangster classic Goodfellas Goodfellas is widely regarded as the most unflinching portrayal of life in the Mafia ever made and this scene of a brutal mob slaying actually happened in front of Henry Hill what Henry witnessed will haunt him for the rest of his life we used to turn my fucking stomach you know hey I mean I lived in fear every fucking day in my life but Henry's real life in the mob was far more vicious than Goodfellas could ever betray it's extraordinary I don't know what kind of a person makes you become I was fucked I was literally fucked you know I mean and where the movie ends the darkest part of Henry's life began that's when life really became insane in a bid to save his own life Henry became a government informant and betrayed his childhood friends the Mafia issued a multi-million dollar contract on his life they were not gonna take this lying down they were gonna look for Henry and they were gonna look to have him executed it's not a way to live I mean he might as well be dead this is the whole story of Henry Hill told by the few that survived why I'm still here why I'm around heck I don't know I get those guardian angels on my shoulder the sons you know for some reason this is Pine Street Brooklyn New York childhood home to Henry Hill during the 1950's this was a thriving tight-knit immigrant community it was a middle-class blue-collar neighborhood everybody knew everybody on a fucking block and you know they know everybody's cousins and uncles and we're fucked they came from me Henry was one of seven siblings born to an Italian mother and a hard-working Irish father I felt that a place at home and I was always getting in trouble I mean I could never do the right fucking thing they would do things that would invoke me anger with my father used to keep this year rules fucking fine and but I decided that you know I mean I really did I mean sometimes I used to do it to spite him you know I mean just a fucking spider Henry felt equally distanced at school where undiagnosed learning difficulties gave him an outsider status dyslexia hyperactivity ADHD attention deficit disorder these weren't diagnosed they thought I was a fucking goof off you know I mean they thought I was doing it on purpose I mean I couldn't fucking leave it would have been a rare person who would have risen above those things and Henry wasn't that rare person there were elements in his family life there were problems with his father and I think to a certain extent he looked for his father two other men men who behave differently when a cabstand run by Paul Vario high-ranking member of a mob family opened across the street Henry was transfixed across the street from my house you know with the fuckin Cadillacs and diamond rings and then fuckin $100 bills and bimbos on each arm and yeah I mean it was it was a toxic ad for whatever reason I guess because of Henry's charm they they took a shine towards him and they patted me on a fuckin back and gave me for the five intense and that day you know you know the fifties that was a lot of fuckin money he became a member of the crew just as the movie shows when he was when he was a young kid at 13 I was making more money than most of the grown-ups in the neighborhood I mean I had more money than I could spend I had it all one day one day some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home you know why it was at a respect behind him infernal erupts as if he's in hell basically because that's where he's going ultimately when he first started earning money and he would tried to give gifts to my mother and my father they would never be accepted not one dollar so he would try to demean well I make more in a week than you make all year you know during a holdup a robbery or whatever these things broke my parents harmed I thought it was a fucking game you know here take this fucking pistol shooter shooter I fucking won to a couple of times you know yeah I mean it was exciting you know it was it was intoxicating [Music] Henry didn't realize he was becoming involved in one of the New York mafias most violent cruise run by Paul Vario a capo or captain in the Lucchese crime family he treated me better than he treated his own sons I mean I love the guy you know I mean I did you know I did Paul Vario was probably one of most frightening people I've ever been around he had an aura of Menace about him that was quite remarkable with the Paul Sorvino characterization didn't pick it up at all in Goodfellas Paul Vario was played by Paul Sorvino the portrayal was of a brooding fatherly figure in reality very Oh was capable of acts of brutal violence it was on these streets that varriya would reveal his true nature to an impressionable Henry husband 13 12 13 years old and touch the fucking baseball bat at it back in the fucking car walks in a fucking bar and I could see it you know somewhere I was he starts hitting the fucking bomb he was fucking baseball bat I mean beating the shit of this fucking woman you know look a fucking collarbone she she had it on him that he was going out with it you know his fucking wife is some bullshit yeah I was just no stupid shit like that but I mean to fire holy fuck was a you know I I never seen that part of him you know I did you know at that point you know and then I started realizing he's fucking as a fucking gangster yeah I mean you know but you know I kind of knew when I eat you know I didn't want to know I knew what I don't want to know you know what I mean I didn't want to see it sometimes I had to see it you know once I crossed that line as a kid I don't want to go back I was a spoiled always greedy you know I you know I think back sometimes you know why you know why why did I stay through Paul Vario Henry would befriend Jimmy Burke a gangster far more unstable and psychotic than Goodfellas could ever show the film actually kind of softened him up I wouldn't want to see what he was capable of you put it that way together they would pull off an audacious heist that would finally earn Henry the underworld respect he craved it's my fuckin misfits my payday this is Henry Hill his early life in the Mafia was the basis for Martin Scorsese's gangster classic Goodfellas you know it's very hard for people in that world to make a straight living it's very hard for them to do it and it's like it's like an addiction craving money and power a teenage Henry Hill had chosen to run with one of the most violent mafia gangs in New York run by Paul Vario a capo in the Lucchese crime family it's a very evil environment where people are concerned about what their next score is gonna be and when they're gonna get killed through very oh he'll would meet two of the most psychotic gangsters in New York far more brutal than the movie could ever portray Italian was just a fuckin loose horse fucking homicidal fucking maniac while showing Henry that path to underworld respect they wouldn't wrench him in a violent life that he would never escape maybe fuckin that was yesterday more than I did yesterday you know what I mean and they were just sucking me you know not you know but I mean I you know I I just didn't know the word no you know what I mean whatever I was if sedated sensing his inevitable fate hill made his first of two ultimately doomed attempts to escape the clutches of the Mafia I figured fuck it you know let me join the army maybe he's fuckin people leave me to fuck alone you know what I mean on June the 11th 1960 Henry Hill joined the u.s. paratroopers stationed in Fort Bragg North Carolina 500 miles away from varios crew it was sort of a feeble attempt that he would make periodically throughout his life to distance himself from this this gangster way of life I made it was bored with that fucking shit you know I mean you know I was ready to move on in my life and didn't know how however and his life of crime was already far too ingrained it's very hard for people in that world to live what you would say more straight existence I got a lot of trouble you had a couple court-martials you know drinking and just fucking carrying on fighting the Marines he started to resume some of his criminal activities that he learned in Brooklyn such as gambling shylocking he was lending people money after spending two months in a military stockade for fighting and stealing a sheriff's car private Hill was discharged from the US Army when he had a bed run with the army he went back to the welcoming arms of the Vario crew and he found a home there it was right there you know and they'd be always glad to see me come home and you know then it was then it was a lot different you know I mean then it was it was it was the real fucking deal Henri's returned to mafia life was sealed when he met Jimmy Burke played by Robert De Niro in Goodfellas however De Niro didn't betray the true brutality of the real Jimmy Burke he was a maniac he was a fucking maniac and people know that they couldn't cross that fucking line when you cross that fuckin line whenever you were dead and you didn't get a second chance you know he he gestured a fucking death you know take it at dinner and then fucking kill you you know for dessert Irina's that was Jimmy with his fearsome reputation Burke was Hills ticket to money and underworld respect somebody like Jimmy the gent was a terrific mentor he would teach you how to pull burglaries robberies big holdups how to deal in cocaine how to deal in heroin he knew the ropes no matter what it was I mean if it was fucking deal in stocks and bonds or fucking not hijacking a truck or fucking whacking somebody you know I mean Jimmy he had the answers period in the Mafia the key to respect was earning big money and Jimmy Burke showed Henry the way when he introduced him to JFK Airport when Burke was finally arrested he was flying in a plane over JFK Airport he looked down he smiled I said one day all that was mine by the early 1960s over 30 billion dollars worth of freight was passing through Kennedy Airport every year Burke tort held the art of hijacking that cargo Jimmy's main thing was hijacking trucks enter here porting it sometimes we still to fucking charge three trucks a fucking day a today you know and we have warehouse and we have fucking forklifts and we had fucking I mean we had it out to a fuckin science hijacking Airport cargo had become such a problem that the US government made a film warning freight companies of the Mafia the hijackers easily ply their trade and too often successfully avoid apprehend so I guess lost one of my trucks in Brooklyn the film was too little too late the mafia already had a vice-like grip over the airport with people at every level on the payroll we're the fucking shop stores the fuckin you know bosses and fucking Union you know they were fuck it was all connected I mean the drivers knew they were getting hijacked the hijackers knew the drivers sometimes are even related and those who couldn't be bribed were forced into silence through intimidation they got away with it because people were afraid people were terrified they were literally fuck seriously what are you get killed they find them in the fucking trunk of a car somewhere once Hill had mastered the art of hijacking trucks Berg helped him plan a heist that made him in the eyes of the Mafia it was a major deal and I think that in that sense Henry earned respect in 1968 he'll learn through an airport insider that half a million dollars in cash was being stored at the Air France Depot at Kennedy Airport but there was a problem he'll informed his mentor Jimmy Burke about a straight-shooting guard who stood in between them and the cash together they hatched a plan to relieve the guard of his keys the way they did it they spent many weeks looking over the guy who was in charge of this operation and found out what his weaknesses were and as I recall his weakness was pornography and prostitutes after getting the guard very drunk Ellen Burke drove him to a motel where the hooker they had hired it was waiting because the guard hasn't a clue and he takes his pants off and then so of course boom they pull the keys make a copy of the key put the keys back in the guy's pants so he goes back to work the next day but they have the key to the Air France safe on the 8th of April 1968 Henry Hill stole over $400,000 from Air France including fucking carrier fuckers suitcases out I was clean as a whistle huh [Music] the Air France heist was headline news obeying mafia law Henri split the hole with a very oh group there is no greater gift you can give one of those guys than a half a million dollars in stolen money when he talks in that business and if Henry was going out and sharing the loot with with others and they were gonna respect them I mean that just sealed it you know I mean I matter where to fuck I want you know they were just you know fucking write copy for meto you know the Air France job and Henry the underworld respect it craved since adolescence and with respect came the keys to the city we could do any fucking thing we want us to do in an old fucking city I mean we owned a city I mean we were princes of the city we want no matter where the fuck we went you can go anywhere it's like a magic carpet you just go anywhere he wants and I could fly for the world Henry showcased his newfound wealth of the notorious mob hangout the Copacabana to be able to go to the Copacabana this was a major major had a I think Asian go sit down at the fucking tailor Nicole Prince Sammy Davis come home and sit down I transfer you and snatch it yeah come over to the fucking table for Tuesday you know I mean it was it was fucking was chaotic Henry was riding high but when he met Karen played by Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas he was forced to question his mobster lifestyle she didn't know what he did in the beginning you know she knew that you know I kind of you know I thought I was a union delegate you know she was apart from that world that I was in with Henry and Karin married and moved to this leafy suburb in Long Island now Henry made his final attempt to escape the clutches of the Vario crew it was another way of trying to fucking you know insulate myself from those fucking lunatics that you know then I was partners with him you know desperate to become legitimate and report the sweet a supper club in Queens New York it looked for a moment like he might actually become a restaurant to her and a bar owner that lasted just a matter of months he just couldn't he was drawn back in and just fuckin followed me you know and the place you know to play survived and became fuckin headquarters within months the suite was a mob hangout full of the people Henry had tried to escape one of the regulars was Tommy disa Muni played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas Tommy was just a fucking loose horse fucking homicidal fucking maniac you know the film actually fucking you know kind of softened him up it gave him enjoyment to break somebody's wrist murder somebody beat him up with a bat yeah he was actually a psycho and then you know he was strung around constantly Tommy would end Henry's attempt to go legit by committing a savage murder inside his club one night it was really late and a guy by the name of Billy batts was in there he was a made organized crime figure very important kind of guy Jimmy and Ty he's just fuck him beat his fuckin head in with it you know there was an area where slave boy you knowing Tommy beat him so fucking hard at the pistol fall apart instead [Music] [Music] [Applause] in Goodfellas the hit was over a petty argument but in reality this vicious murder was over an ongoing turf ooh there was a be story there that never was shown in Goodfellas Billy batts had just come home from prison he had all the Shylock business they had the bookmaking business and Jimmy you know when he was the way Jimmy took it all over basically and Jimmy knew he had to kill him eventually they crossed the line that unfortunately is just no coming back and somebody's gonna have to pay for it Billy batts was a made man a fully initiated member of the Mafia the penalty for killing a made man was death to ensure the body was never found they threw bats into the trunk of Hills car and drove to Pennsylvania to dig his grave on the journey Hill made a chilling discovery bats wasn't dead it was sickening it was fucking sickening it was actually sickening you know you fuckin shot you know he looked at me he says Henry they didn't actually shoot him they just write the time just dead 30 or 40 fuckin time fucker Harnam that ended Henry's ever being able to walk away it was over I mean the suite was God he was now the participant in a homicide and his bond now was to those with whom he had done the homicide I was always there to do I had to do but yet you know he used to turn my fucking stomach you know hey I mean I lived in fear every fucking day my life you know IIIi I did you know I mean I I was no I didn't like the violence involved but you know if I showed any sign of weakness I know I get fucking killed Henry's dreams of escaping were over he was back working in various crew having to do whatever was asked of him to survive in 1972 a seemingly innocuous trip to Florida would result in his first incarceration ultimately they just do one thing too many they think they're gonna get away with it no he and Jimmy went down to Florida to pick up some money that was oh there was somebody had had owed a lot of money to some organized crime guys and we snatched a man in a fuckin bar and beat the fuck every night smack the shit out of mr. Lipton my recollection is that we later found out the facts of that case and that they had changed somebody behind a car and dragged them for a good a good space and but to Henry that was just smacking somebody around a little bit he paid the fucking money next day but his sister work for the FBI we didn't know that [Music] on November the 3rd 1972 following a successful FBI investigation Henry and Jimmy Burke each received ten years in federal prison on charges of interstate gambling and assault fucking you know no big fucking deal you know ten years under six years you know that's Toby Young when I got out sure enough yeah and then fucking prison was a fucking joke you know when you think of prison here's your love you get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with bows and Mo's of guys behind bars but it wasn't like that for wiseguys it really wasn't that bad something that I miss Jimmy he was doing his time in Atlanta right I mean everybody else in the joint was doing real time all mixed together living like pigs but we lived alone we give the impression of it being breezier than it was to add to the irony of it with the music that's playing and that sort of thing and getting a lobster's but this was what we had guards who told us this is the reality to him it was all there it's all there I mean a certain people who were privileged Hills privileges were paid for by bribing the guards and that meant earning on the inside Hill turned to fellow inmate Paul Massey who showed him how much money could be made dealing narcotics Dave's a joke to us you fuckers stupid fucks you fucking around with trailer trucks will fucking give you two shoeboxes full of fucking heroin and it's ten times as much money as you make off ten fucking trailers you know that starts to eat away and money always corrupts um corrupts the corrupted it was a turning point for Henry by selling narcotics he'll was breaking a sacred mafia edict that was punishable by death the reason that they had the it is up because they have anymore compunctions about the use of narcotics or selling narcotics it's because the experience going back to the 50s and 60s is that drug deal is turned on the higher-ups and they were in the higher-ups in the in the organized crime families wanted to ensure they wouldn't be the victims of their underlings who got caught selling drugs it was it was too easy Henry was now concealing his part in Billy batts death and his drug dealing from his mob bosses and he was getting hooked on the drugs he was secretly selling a high life was slipping away I was fucked don't smoothly fucked you know I mean near months after his release from prison Hill would become involved in the biggest cash robbery ever committed on American soil that's what life really became in steep what should have been his defining moment would mutate into an orgy of violence murder and ultimately betrayal I was a dead man walking handle it by the time Henry Hill was released from prison his life in the Mafia was spiraling out of control that's when life really became insane he had been involved in the execution of initiated Mafia member Billy batts and had started dealing drugs he knew when the Mafia finally found out he was a dead man you're gonna call me welcome my wife become a kid and in 1978 Hill and mafia mentor Jimmy Burke pulled off the notorious Lufthansa heist a robbery that spawned a vicious killing spree and ultimately led to Henry Hills cold-hearted betrayal of them all you didn't get me motherfucker I got you on Sunday the 11th of December 1978 Jimmy Burke screw acting on a tip-off from Henry Hill pulled off the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil five heavily armed masked men the day fled with an estimated three million dollars in cash and $300,000 in jewelry from the Lufthansa Airlines Cargo hangar at New York's Kennedy Airport the robbery was front-page news across America the actual figure stolen would rise to five million dollars in cash and a million dollars in jewels the news of the robbery was not only on the radio but it was television of course the tabloids splashed across the front page and it was it was huge news everybody in the fucking City knew was us the whole fucking I mean there wasn't a wise guy that didn't know that we didn't do it you know I mean and it fucking feds or to within a day or two law enforcement knew for sure based on what their informants were telling him that it was Jimmy Burke screw that it carried out the robbery the FBI's first breakthrough was the discovery of the van used in the robbery driven by stacks Edwards he was supposed to get rid of the fucking van they found his fucking finger prints on it before the FBI could interrogate stacks Burke had him executed the killing spree had begun it was very hard to develop evidence in the Lufthansa case because people who were involved started turning out dead the FBI put the entire Vario crew under surveillance it wasn't long before they started giving themselves away by showing off their newfound wealth stupid ma I mean guys would fucking IQs up you know 26 a fucking going buy fucking new Cadillacs fucking before it does not mean colds and shit and little by little men who showed off that they had the money were killed he's just trying to eliminate everybody and he had to because people were gonna fucking nuts fucking three-month period 12 fucking guys one life they found toss off the fucking bone up on a fucking be some mock away one of them wild up getting killed and hung up in an ice truck and use frozen stiff it took three days from the body to thought so they could give it an autopsy I can remember one in particular who he brought into the strike force told him that the FBI had informed information that he was going to be killed and he listened politely and looked at both of us and said can I go and he did and he walked out and his body parts washed up several weeks later within months Jimmy Burke with Paul varios blessing had slaughtered everyone involved in the heist Henry Hill was the last man standing I've seen him running on a fucking war you know I didn't have no way out you know I mean I was fucked I was literally fucked you know what I mean Henry knew Jimmy wanted him dead he had to find a way out you know from you know from having fucking life you know on easy street you know you know three or four restaurants I got a fucking million dollars cash you know I ain't had a wonder it you know what a few restaurants now I'm in a fucking heroin business throughout the Lufthansa killing spree Henry had become heavily involved in narcotics trafficking he knew that his mafia boss Paul Vario would order his death if he ever got caught we knew he was involved in the sale and distribution of heroin cocaine quaaludes any number of different electrics Hills drug-dealing had attracted the attention of the Nassau County Police Department who placed him under surveillance with Vario Burke the FBI and the police closing in amazingly he would find a way to make his problems even worse very quickly he began to snore the heroin became addicted to heroin became addicted to cocaine and his judgment was pretty cloudy in those days he wound up putting a lot of drugs out on the street and think he'd paid for I couldn't remember who half the time who we gave what to I got some fucking wack and drugs I mean not why cami I was able to function but I was you know strung out on you fucking name and I was thrown out on it the anxiety and the pressure that he's feeling I think are really so evident the way Scorsese shot the scene [Music] I was gonna be busy all day and I had to drop off some guns at Jimmy's to match some silencers he a gun now to pick up my brother at the hospital and drive him back to the house for dinner that night and then I had to pick up some new Pittsburgh stuff for Lois to fly down to some customers I had near Atlanta but got more and more control yeah there's no way he's gonna get is gonna slamming up against the walls everything's gonna crash he was totally fucking insane totally fucking insane he had eluded us in so many different directions and I was ready for it to be over finally after 41 days of surveillance Nassau County Police Department swooped and arrested Henry Hill he got caught he got caught the guy who thought he would never get caught they'll get you Henry was taken in for questioning but the police hadn't found any drugs the stroke of luck they were looking for came in the shape of Henry's girlfriend and drug partners relaxed approach to domestic hygiene they went in the fucking house and it's fucking vacuum cleaning fucking walls I was fucking heroin coke is that you're gonna stay hard for fucking ages with his shit was on a wallpaper eater and I said gotcha with overwhelming evidence against him Henry Hill was facing 25 years to life in prison and he was a marked man his drug dealing meant Vario wanted him dead and former friend Jimmy Burke knew that as the last man alive with inside knowledge of the Lufthansa heist Henry could leave the feds to his door nobody at that point had any faith that Henry was gonna keep its mouth shut I knew Paul would want to whack me Jimmy was gonna whack me you know it was it was it was so fucking crazy you know he could have counted the days before he was killed but the FBI offered Henry a way out in return for his inside information on the Lufthansa heist he would receive immunity on the drugs charges so he was an easy case I mean that he was facing 5-7 life sentences Henry had no option but to break the most important mafia rule of all never rat on your friends he loathed himself for having turned because his entire life had been based in a world where becoming a rat is the worst thing you could possibly be cause you becoming her you know what I mean I'm fucking stool pigeon and you know I mean I just couldn't even fantasize you know I did there was a time in my life that I would have put a fucking gun in my fucking mouth and even with my fucking brains out before I become a fucking rat on the 22nd of May 1980 Henry Hill agreed to cooperate with the FBI this is where the movie Goodfellas ends but where a 25 year mafia manhunt and Henry's descent into self-destruction began ill and his family were moved by the US Marshals to Omaha Nebraska to begin their new lives in the witness protection program first night he was in the program and lying in his house in absolute silence in the dark he said sippy I was scared out of my mind not that the guys from New York were gonna gonna come get me it's it's I can't do this normal thing what's the culture shock I mean seriously it was [Music] they cured her back in his big yummy any talk fucker funny you know he did you I mean I get different country Henry have to assume a new identity that would enable him to travel back to New York to begin his debriefing he chose Martin Lewis insurance adjuster and be gone all the time investigating an arson in fucking Boston and you know I just that you know [Music] in New York Hill began his debriefing about the Lufthansa robbery so the FBI could finally get to Jimmy Burke and Paul Vario but his free-roaming testimony inadvertently incriminating other mafia members you know I just told fucking truth and every time I told the truth it opened another fucking can of worms and you know and it started an under investigation and another fucking case and I had no idea that this was going on we were able to make some significant cases and develop all sorts of other evidence that led to other investigations and prosecutions yeah well you know you understand I'm gonna make that fucking deal with you guys well you don't want to fuck a stand you know Hill was forced to take the witness stand and come face to face with the mafia bosses he was betraying it was tough I mean looking at these fucking guys you know I mean these bosses of bosses and shit you know they were absolutely the highest quality targets that we had in the most difficult cases that we had and Henry was was an extraordinarily valuable witness he did his job for the feds I mean he showed up in the courts in New York came back many times and was invaluable in breaking down a huge gang empire in New York Henry's testimony helped convict over 50 mafia members they were not gonna take this lying down they were gonna look for Henry and they were gonna look to have him executed back in Omaha Henry began to spiral out of control part of him wanted to mess up and punished himself so he was becoming extremely self-destructive I couldn't live with myself I stay gabbatha Stoll isn't fucking enjoying it every night you know me he was a total coke freak pill freak I mean he was on everything that he could take he would ingest anything in between trials the FBI was continuing to debrief hill about Lufthansa as he was the last surviving witness we were running through the robbery and where he was during the robbery and Henry said while I was in Pittsburgh adder I said well what were you doing in Pittsburgh and Henry kind of smiled his little smile and said well you're not gonna like this three years before his arrest Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke were fixing basketball games at Boston College ironically the team Ed McDonald used to play for I said you know you're completely nuts I said you got a real serious problem here motherfucker almost leapt over the fucking table try to grab me but you are music together Burke and Hill had bribed three players to fix the results of basketball games including starting center Rick Kuhn who was dragged in front of the US courts with Kuhn and Hills testimony the FBI could finally bring Burke to trial Burke was arrested suspected of murdering at least 50 people the mastermind of the Lufthansa robbery would face trial on a seemingly innocuous gambling scam and on the 27th of October 1981 began the u.s. versus Jimmy Burke the courtroom was packed with media with organized crime figures and with people who were interested in the case Henry Hill would once again have to take the stand this time against his former mafia mentor I mean look at him you know what I knew that this motherfucker ordered my death you know I mean before the trial the FBI played he'll wiretap evidence of Burke ordering his execution I didn't believe him you know I mean and they played me the fucking tape I mean most station up you know I mean when a cops I go over my death you know I know what I mean yeah I mean that's that's that's what it became and I mean Henry was ruthless and he was a cornered rat and while he might have been uncomfortable testifying against these people he recognized that these people who were looking to kill him I was able to look with cocksuckin II I you know I mean I said Jimmy you didn't get me motherfucker I got you Jimmy Burke was convicted and would spend the rest of his life in prison at the end at the end I was just you know disposable I was just you know they were gonna kill me Hales testimony would be equally damaging to Paul Vario on trial for extortion at Kennedy Airport put his fucking head down you know fuck it we didn't kill you cocksucker yeah you got us yeah I got it motherfucker yeah you even got my wife and my fucking kids motherfucker you know I knew what they were capable of you know I mean I've seen it all my life born Henry's testimony helped convict Paul Vario he was sentenced to a total of 12 and a half years in Pittsburgh federal penitentiary behind bars Jimmy Burke organized a relentless campaign to have hell found and executed he would have been just mutilated for what he had done Henry Hill would spend the next 25 years running for his life in 1980 Henry Hill became a government informant betraying his childhood friends Jimmy Burke and Paul Vario condemning them to spend the rest of their lives behind bars I beat him to the punch you know I mean I did Burke had issued a multi-million dollar contract on Henry Hills life there would be plenty of takers don't wanna coming welcome my wife or my kids you know I mean anything to get to me they would all love to make their bones killing Henry Hill [Applause] Henry Hill had been secretly moved to Omaha Nebraska and placed in the witness protection program to safeguard him from mafia reprisals they looked out for me I mean Damon what the fuck it was it was a big fucking deal back in 1980 you know being a rat you know I was the first fucking okay it was clearly in a great deal of danger his family was in a great deal of danger in 1981 through a government informant the FBI received the news they have been dreading Burke was closing in Burke had some buddies he told them where dree was allegedly at they notified us so we don't take chances we moved about fun right show some clothes in your fucking bag we'll be there we're outside right now I believe he had about 24 hours gotta go throughout the ages he'll and his family were moved repeatedly by the US government the threat of mafia execution was ever-present he was in a great deal of danger and has contributed in many ways to his alcoholism and his drug addiction he became highly addicted to cocaine and heroin you name it and Henry's drug addiction was about to lead him into the arms of the Mafia in the mid-1980s Henry Hill had been moved to Washington with a serious addiction and mounting debts he returned to his life of narcotics dealing and in Washington Hill fell foul of an undercover police sting hey look I was a fucking captain midnite Menem Darren I you know he was a fuckin agent I knew it and I couldn't convince these other fucking assholes you know I need dough with him go pump Henry Hill was arrested on narcotics charges worse still he had lost his witness protection status through seven years of continually breaking every rule in the program the witness protection program failed in my view for Henry because Henry is a weak person he wasn't able to to discipline himself and to to change his life passing bad checks and calling home back to New York you know which was a no-no that was forbidden don't use the phone go fuck yourself you know I mean fuck addy it's not so much that the program failed Henry is that Henry failed himself and his usefulness for the government at that point is pretty much at an end he had already given up everything he had to offer to negotiate he had nothing left it was a strong case he went the trial he was convicted things couldn't have been worse for Hill awaiting sentencing he was sent to Terminal Island in California a prison populated with mafia inmates when he arrived he found out that there were members of the East Coast mafia who were who knew who he was and what he had done to their guys back east they were doing time then you know then we don't life sentences and fucking 20 years and also that fucker shit or they did try to kill me two attempts were made on Hills life and though his usefulness to the government was over ed MacDonald came to his rescue one last time I wrote a letter because I thought it was only fair to talk about the the convictions and the cases that he had contributed to the judge waived the letter in front of the prosecutor and said that because of what Henry had done and because of the pressures that he was under he was going to sentence him to a probationary sentence I had a lunar year any job we had and he sent me just fucking in a place where I you know supposedly got rehabilitated finally Hale received some good news wise guy his autobiography co-written with Nick Pileggi was to be made into a Hollywood movie Scorsese caught me movie get the fucker yeah yeah yeah he's gonna give me half a million dollars I said okay not a fucking payday you know hey seriously every fucking made Henry had to work hard for his money Robert De Niro constantly phoned him for advice on how to perfect his portrayal of Jimmy Burke ironically the man who wanted Henry dead he's on a fucking phone constantly I mean you know they fucking seven eight times a day he wouldn't leave his fucking chill when I brought him to me twice you know Jimmy needed how did you mean hold the cigarette ha I thought he was a fucking nut job when filming had finished and De Niro had left Henry alone he was smuggled onto the Warner Brothers lot for a secret screening of Goodfellas I mean how could you imagine yourself you know on a fucking big silver screen you know I mean and no and it was me yeah I mean this fucking kid Neal I had a lot of fun I had you know a lot of money you know what fucking you know insane fucking shit but yet at the end of the fucking night you know I still worked Christian power throughout the making of Goodfellas the threats on Hills life and his life on the run continued but the main threat ended on the 13th of April 1996 when Jimmy Burke died of lung cancer in prison it was a fucking relief you know I mean in the same with Paulie when he died you know it was a fucking relief because I knew well Paul Henne wouldn't kill me you know I mean poorly undercover I know Jimmy doing yeah on this fucking dead bed I'm sure that he said yeah make sure you get fucking him yeah I knew Jimmy from Burke died that was the end of the fear of New York but that was far from the end of his problems today Henry Hill lives in the Midwest he and Karen are divorced the money from Goodfellas is spent and he makes a living as a chef in a small Italian restaurant for the most part he never breaks a promise unless it has to do with alcohol and if it has to do with alcohol he'll break it I'll say just this fucking moment I mean yeah I don't like being sober I don't I've heard him that many times all I really want to be from here on out is the best damn drunk in the world he is plagued by his addictions and haunted by his former life living a lifestyle where he lived by a code and broke it I'm sure came into it he also continues his life of crime this last deal he goes through the security at the airport with drugs and his carry-on bag I mean how dumb is it I think what you see of every today it's what you'll see of the rest of his life he'll be in a trouble I don't believe he get up and turn his back on it is it possible that Henry will find redemption and walk the straight and narrow you know stranger things have happened he's getting near the end now and it's quite possible that as he likes it his final days you might get religion but I wouldn't bet on it I'm fucking sick as it sounds you know and as fucked up as my life wasn't is and is gonna be and probably fucking there I died but I don't hurt [Music]

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Channel: Steve Wraith

Views: 291,150

Rating: 4.5177712 out of 5

Keywords: Henry Hill, Goodfellas, USA, Mafia, Crime, Cosa Nostra, Rat

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Length: 48min 12sec (2892 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 02 2017

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Says 2005 looks like 1995

👍︎︎ 6 👤︎︎ u/Yanoshank 📅︎︎ Jan 16 2018 🗫︎ replies

Haven't seen this yet but Henry would do the Stern show quite a bit in the 90s to mid 2000s. Worth listening to if you're interested in his story. Lots of the appearances are on YouTube.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/emerge_from_the_mist 📅︎︎ Jan 16 2018 🗫︎ replies

Not in HD but here's a slightly better quality version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RoFmHR8S3Y

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/ChuckLazer 📅︎︎ Jan 17 2018 🗫︎ replies

THANK YOU!

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/kwakaine 📅︎︎ Jan 15 2018 🗫︎ replies

"Somewhere in the midwest"... Lol. Pretty sure that's Wisconsin. Only place I've ever seen with sideways stoplights.

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/Mr-Steal-yo-beer 📅︎︎ Jan 16 2018 🗫︎ replies