Goodfellas heist defendant Vincent Asaro 'fully embraced mob life'

An ageing mobster lived a long life of crime highlighted by the $6m heist in 1978 that was retold in the movie Goodfellas, a prosecutor has said.

Vincent Asaro, whose grandfather and father were members of the Bonanno organised crime family, “was born into that life and he fully embraced it”, assistant US attorney Alicyn Cooley told a jury in closing arguments at a federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn, New York.