Jimmy Burke

Jimmy Burke (July 5, 1931 – April 13, 1996) was an associate with the Luchesse crime family, best known for being portrayed by Robert DeNiro in the movie GoodFellas.

The reason he gets a spot here first is because he was a backstabber who looked out for himself. Jimmy was well-known for being merciless to those he killed. In terms of brutality, he wasn't as bad as Thomas DiSemone. The main villainary of his though was the aftermath of the Luftansa Heist. He also got involved in drugs, much like Henry Hill did, to an extent more than Henry did. This put him in tension with Paul Vario. When Hill got arrested, Burke, fearing that he would rat him out, attempted on many occassion to hurt Henry and his loved ones. The scene in GoodFellas where a Conway tries to get Karen to a backalley is indeed based on an attempted assassination. Hill, initially reluctant to rat out his former co-associates, become more hardened against Burke, when it was revealed that he ordered an execution. He is worse than DiSemone in that regard. If you got DiSemone angry, he didn't try to hide it from you.