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Goodfellas
The 1990 Martin Scorsese's motion picture Goodfellas, is a classic movie about the world
of organized crime. Goodfellas is based on the Nicolas Pileggi novel WISE GUY. The film
starts off in New York City in the 1950's, and is on the life of a poor Irish-Italian
named Henry Hill. Hill is an aspiring criminal who threw the movie, rises threw ranks of
his Brooklyn neighborhood's organized crime branch, and has Henry and his family living
the good life with his profits from his criminal activity, finally Henry is forced to
testify against his former partners and lands Henry and his family in the FBI's Witness
protection program.
In his teen age years Henry starts working in a local hangout for wise guy's (members of
organized crime). At first Henry is put to work, parking cars and little odd jobs for the
wise guy's. After a few years things escalate into more involvement for Henry like
working in an underground gamboling ring, running messages, Torching cars, and to selling
stolen cigarettes. Most of his current activity is a classified as a misdemeanor, or a
public order crime. When Henry ends up getting arrested, and after a light slap on the
wrists, Henry earns much trust and respect and starts off on his life of crime. 
In his early 20's Henry and his partners, Tommy, and Jimmy set up different jobs 
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to improve there financial gain, social status and if not more importantly respect, from
other individuals involved organized crime. The three ran jobs like robbing cargo trucks
filled with goods from fur coats, to cigarettes, and even occasionally a shipment of
shrimp and lobster's. These goods are sold illegally on the "black Market" for a fraction
of their original costs. These criminal activity starts to enhance as time moves on, with
public official and police payoffs, crimes are put on the bottom of the pile or never
investigated. Along with the intimidation of witness's and the common fear of two-timing
organized and never being herd from again members of organized crime usually escape the
long arm of the law. Henry's first big score was a robbery of an over sea's bank exchange
from the Air France loading dock with the help of Tommy and the head security guard jimmy
just walked out with a suit case of almost 250,000 dollars, After this Henry earns
respect as a big time wise guy.
With time Henry, Tommy, and Jimmy move on to more serious crimes like Major shakedowns of
business for protection and skimming a popular restaurant by unloading goods like liquor
out the back door and selling them for a fraction of the price, but it was not a loss
because no one was going to pay for it when the restaurant barrowed every last dime they
torched the place. This was an insurance fraud crime and Arson witch are both serious
felonies. 
When members of organized need to keep someone quiet they take care of it by making the
person disappear, In the film this usually entailed a six foot pit up state. Henry, Tommy
and, Jimmy took many trips up state during the course of the movie. Hit's were not an
uncommon thing in the movie, like when Jimmy pulled off one of the 
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biggest robbery's in u.s. history he killed everyone involved. In most crimes vehicles
are stolen to be used in illegal dealing's so no one could trace a car back to the person
who committed the crime. After the criminal activity was over the car was torched or
driven into the river. When Jimmy made his big score, the get away driver got drunk and
forgot to dump the car, this is when people started disappearing.
On a failed robbery Henry and Jimmy were pinched (arrested) on federal charges and given
Ten years in a federal prison. When Henry went to prison he stated paying off the guard's
to look the other way so he could sell narcotics to other inmates, and live a decent life
behind bars. Henry did not live with the prison population he lived in a private cell
with other mafia figures in prison on different charges, they received many privileges
like being able to import extravagant food and Alcohol. Henry was released half way threw
his original ten year sentence.
After Prison Henry did not stop his enterprises in narcotics. It is a general rule of
organized crime that if you get involved with narcotics you will more than likely
disappear. Henry ended up taking to many chances, and found himself getting arrested. For
fear of his life and prosecution, Henry decided to testify against all of his former
associates and join the F.B.I.'s witness protection program.
This film was an accurate and classic depiction of organized crime during the period of
time. Goodfellas dealt with a significant amount crime. The film displayed all of the
eight Crimes listed in the F.B.I's Uniform Crime Report or the U.C.R. The movie also
exhibited many public order crimes as well to the major crimes.
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