William Bentvena
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William Joseph Bentvena, also known as “Billy Batts”, was an American mobster with the Gambino crime family who was a longtime friend of John Gotti in the 1960s. After spending six years in prison for
Bentvena in the 1950s
Thomas DeSimone
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Thomas James DeSimone was an American criminal associated with New York City's Lucchese crime family who is alleged to have participated in both the Air France robbery and the Lufthansa heist. It is b
William Bentvena
…of John Gotti in the 1960s. After spending six years in prison for narcotics trafficking, Bentvena was murdered by Lucchese crime family associate Tommy DeSimone, with the help of fellow Lucchese associates James Burke and Henry Hill. Bentvena was born in Manhattan as the second of four children of a first…
DeSimone in 1979