Asaro Sentenced in ‘Goodfellas’ Ozone Park Hit

Asaro Sentenced in ‘Goodfellas’ Ozone Park Hit

Jerome Asaro was sentenced recently for moving the body of a mob associate who was buried beneath this Ozone Park home. File Photo.

Jerome Asaro was sentenced recently for moving the body of a mob associate who was buried beneath this Ozone Park home. File Photo.

A Mafia scion recently was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison for his role in a mob hit carried out in Ozone Park by a brutal gangster who was immortalized in the seminal film “Goodfellas,” according to published reports.

Jerome Asaro, 56, pleaded guilty last October to accessory after the fact, and appeared in court in late March to receive his term for digging up the remains of mob associate Paul Katz, which had been interred under an Ozone Park home since 1969.

Katz was murdered by Asaro’s father, Vincent, and James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, the latter of whom was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the Martin Scorsese-helmed drama. Some time in the 1980s, Vincent Asaro ordered his son to move Katz’s bones from the home, which was owned by Burke, because investigators were looking into Katz’s mysterious disappearance. According to the New York Post, federal agents acting on a tip descended on the Ozone Park house in 2013 and found Katz’s partial remains.

By Michael V. Cusenza michael@theforumnewsgroup.com

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