![]() ![]() Once inside, he soon realized that Mafia members received preferential treatment by convicts and guards, who were paid off by crime families. After beating up a non-paying gambler whose sister happened to work at the F.B.I., Hill was sentenced to 10 years in jail. Hill lived up to the gangster image by having a number of affairs and staying out until all hours, drinking, partying and playing cards. His time in the Mafia would span three decades, beginning in 1955. In his teenage years, Hill would do errands for Vario and his crew and eventually moved to more serious crime. Hill soon became a close associate and friend of Paul Vario, one of the more respected capos in the family. The son of an Irish father and Sicilian mother, Hill could never be a "made" Mafia member because he wasn't a full-blooded Italian, but his charm and cunning made him welcome inside the Lucchese family. Fascinated by gangsters, he began dreaming of being in the Mafia at age 12. Early Lifeīorn on June 11, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, Hill grew up in an area of Brooklyn that was dominated by the Lucchese crime family. Hill’s life is the basis of the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie Goodfellas. Arrested for drug trafficking in 1980, Hill became a federal informant and joined the Witness Protection Program for a number of years. Although not related by blood, Hill worked his way up in the Lucchese crime family from a young age. Henry Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 11, 1943. ![]()
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