Anyone inspired by characters from Goodfellas could be arrested for anything. Murder, smuggling, drug trafficking, stealing, illegal parking, the list goes on. However, Vincent Asaro, captain of the real life Bonanno crime family, will be ​serving time for car arson, a crime any unintelligent car owner has committed.

Most will be familiar with Asaro from his previous crimes. In 2015, he was found not guilty of charges related to the 1978 heist at the Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK Airport. This robbery was featured in Goodfellas.





The classic mobster is now 82 years old. Age is just a number, though, the mob is forever, ordering his goons to torch a man's car for one reason: he cut him off in 2012. A perfectly reasonable response, I don't see the problem.

Asaro has been given a sentence of eight years. Although he should be able to get out by the time he's 90, Asaro has a less positive, perhaps more realistic point of view. “I don’t care what happens to me,” Asaro told U.S. District Judge Allyne R. Ross. “What you sentenced me to is a death sentence anyway.”





The police clearly take pride in their newfound capture of a major crime boss. “The anger that propelled Asaro to action is reminiscent of so many scripted Hollywood dramas, but unlike the fame and fortune of the big screen, Asaro's story ends on a different note,” the head of New York's FBI office, William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a press release.

“Today's sentence proves that living life in the fast lane is sure to be short-lived," he concluded.





82 is short lived? Asaro, as young as he is, will be serving his sentence from now until around 2026. Surely there's no way he can help run the mob from behind bars, right?