Two years later - after moving his family to Nebraska, and then Kentucky - Hill was thrown out of the program for blowing his cover. Federal Witness Protection Program in 1980. Hill, his wife and their two children entered the U.S. His testimony brought down some of New York's most feared mobsters, including Vario. It was only when Hill realized he was next on the hit list that he became a federal witness. As his operation grew, so did Hill's own addiction to the drug. Federal WitnessĪfter his release, Hill used his prison narcotics contacts to shift large amounts of cocaine from Brooklyn to Pittsburgh. 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. Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob-from one who's lived it.Henry Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 11, 1943. Which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds.with Henry Hill's crackling narration drawn straight out ofĪnd overseeing all the unforgettable action. This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill-the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's life-has been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" (
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