`GOODFELLAS' SNITCH ARRESTED IN N.J.; EX-MOBSTER WHO TOLD ALL HELD FOR VIOLATING PAROLE.Byline: Jeffrey Gold Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The mobster whose autobiography inspired the movie ``Goodfellas'' is back in jail, nabbed in an airport hotel room on a parole violation stemming from an assault on his wife in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . Henry Hill, in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area for radio and TV appearances, said Friday he could have avoided arrest if he had not gotten drunk after 17 months of sobriety and missed his flight back to California. ``I keep stumbling stumbling an abnormal gait in which the animal does not fully extend the limb, the plantar surface is not properly placed with respect to the ground surface at the time of impact so that the limb is likely to collapse and the animal to fall. because of my alcoholism, which leads me to other addictions,'' said Hill, who came to New York for appearances on Howard Stern's nationally broadcast radio and television shows and to tape a Geraldo Rivera “Geraldo” redirects here. For the British bandleader, see Geraldo (bandleader). For the talk show, see . Gerald Michael Rivera[1] (born July 4, 1943), known by his TV name Geraldo Rivera or simply Geraldo interview. ``I screwed up.'' His book ``Wise Guys,'' written with crime writer Nicholas Pileggi, told of his mob exploits, including the $5.8 million 1978 Lufthansa heist at New York's Kennedy Airport, the largest cash haul ever in a U.S. theft. Ray Liotta played Hill in the movie, a ``very accurate'' portrayal of his life, Hill said. The 53-year-old Hill testified against his partners in crime in the early 1980s after entering the federal witness protection program - in which he went by the name Martin T. Lewis. After several run-ins with the law - he was arrested in 1987 in Seattle on a drug charge, and did time for assaulting his ex-wife in an Antelope Valley motel - he went on the lecture circuit under his real name. Hill said it took years ``to forgive myself for being a rat,'' but he now believes his testimony saved lives. The Brooklyn-born mob turncoat had not been in the Big Apple for a decade. He visited his old neighborhoods, Ozone Park and Howard Beach, and called his unnamed California suburb ``generic.'' But his old life? ``I don't miss any of those people,'' Hill said, referring to fellow Lucchese crime family The Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, USA, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra). associates. ``I miss the New York pizza.'' Hill said he is not terribly worried about someone from his past trying to even the score: ``A lot of those people are gone.'' But he said he generally travels with a bodyguard. Besides the Lufthansa robbery, Hill was also involved in the basketball point-shaving scandal at Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing in the late 1970s. He said Friday he witnessed murders but never committed one. Officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, self-sustaining public corporation established in 1921 by the states of New York and New Jersey to administer the activities of the New York–New Jersey port area, which has a waterfront of c. arrested him May 3, a day after his Stern appearances, in a hotel room near Newark International Airport. Detective Henry Tynan told The Star-Ledger of Newark that Hill was drunk, naked and in bed with his girlfriend. The woman has returned to California. Hill was paroled in July 1995. California authorities say Hill had not reported to his parole officer since January and that parolees are not allowed to leave the state CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Henry Hill, the former member of the mob who inspired the film ``Goodfellas,'' grants an interview from jail in Essex County Essex County can refer to:
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