GOODFELLA GOES TO JAIL

Reputed Mobster Vincent Asaro Gets 8 Years for Road-Rage Arson

Vincent Asaro, 82, had dodged numerous convictions, including notorious 1978 Lufthansa heist.

Reputed mobster Vincent Asaro was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for ordering his underlings to torch a car that cut him off in traffic. The 82-year-old, who prosecutors say has led a “literal life of crime” in New York’s Bonanno crime family, called the term a “death sentence.” Asaro has dodged numerous criminal convictions over the years for, among other things, allegedly strangling a man with a dog chain and partaking in the Lufthansa heist in 1978, a robbery immortalized in the film Goodfellas. Asaro was acquitted in that case in 2015. Prosecutors filed new charges this year over the 2012 road-rage incident, however, saying the then-77-year-old tracked down the random driver days after the traffic incident and burned the car “to a crisp.” Asaro pleaded guilty in June and on Thursday apologized for the “stupid thing I did.” “If he had not aged out of a life of crime at the age of 77, I have little hope that he will do so,” Judge Allyne Ross said in announcing the decision.