{"id":382782,"date":"2026-03-13T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382782\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:56:11","slug":"that-is-angelo-sepes-car-we-put-the-listening-device-in-right-in-the-back-of-robert-de-niro-the-irish-fbi-agent-who-helped-put-away-the-real-life-goodfellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382782\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018That is Angelo Sepe\u2019s car we put the listening device in, right in the back of Robert De Niro\u2019: The Irish FBI agent who helped put away the real-life Goodfellas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From mobsters to the actual Donnie Brasco, and the case that inspired John Cusack\u2019s \u2018Money for Nothing\u2019, Neil Moran\u2019s 30-year career kept Hollywood busy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci on the set of Goodfellas. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SF Goodfellas 2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci on the set of Goodfellas. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Neil Moran and his FBI colleagues all spotted the same thing when they headed to cinemas with the rest of the world in 1990 for the release of Martin Scorsese\u2019s much-anticipated Goodfellas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The mob film was inspired by the real-life robbery 12 years earlier of the Lufthansa cargo terminal at John F Kennedy Airport in New York, when a crew of Lucchese crime family associates made off with nearly $6m (\u20ac5.2m) in cash and jewellery in a daring heist just two weeks before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From mobsters to the actual Donnie Brasco, and the case that inspired John Cusack\u2019s \u2018Money for Nothing\u2019, Neil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,69152,23942,1543],"class_list":["post-382782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lufthansa","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116220801077883964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}