Thanks to a no-show job (as a union bricklayer), Hill managed to live an ostensibly normal suburban life with his wife (a nice Jewish girl from Long Island who seems to have viewed her husband as a good provider with odd business associates) and two daughters. Bootleg cigarettes, hijacked cargoes, stolen credit cards, bookmaking, loan-sharking, and a wealth of other illegal enterprises nonetheless provided Hill with a steady flow of easy money.
The Mafia, however, seems not to be an equal-opportunity employer, and lack of an Italian surname precluded his advancement. Sicilian ancestry (on his mother's side) gained Hill entr‚e into the rackets before he was a teen-ager. Before that 1980 day, Hill had enjoyed a consistently prosperous career as a street soldier (or wise guy) for Paul Vario, an aging underboss in the Brooklyn-based mob headed by Gaetano Lucchese. In matter-of-fact style, Pileggi (an investigative reporter for New York magazine) tells the story of Henry Hill, whose for-the-record existence ended at age 36 when he entered the Justice Department's Federal Witness Protection Program. Urn:oclc:873216236 Republisher_date 20131030175837 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131029213835 Scanner does pay-and well, most of the time, according to this unsentimental profile of a lower-echelon hoodlum turned informant. OL2958812W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.06 Pages 326 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0671447343 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:36:29 Boxid IA120121212-IA1 Boxid_2 CH114201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donor
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