Henry Hill Jr. was an Italian-American mobster associated with New York City’s Lucchese crime family. From 1955 to 1980, he was arrested on drug charges and worked as an FBI informant.
Hill testified against his former Mafia associates, which resulted in 50 convictions, including caporegime Paul Vario and fellow associate James Burke on multiple counts. He later joined the Witness Protection Program before being kicked out in 1987.
Hill’s life story was documented in Nicholas Pileggi’s true crime book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family. It was later adapted by Martin Scorsese into the critically acclaimed 1990 film Goodfellas, in which Hill was played by Ray Liotta.
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