Kelly: Omaha offered safe place for ex-mobster (Henry Hill “Goodfellas”)

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Henry Hill in 2005, in front of a portrait of Ray Liotta (who played Hill in “Goodfellas”) in the dining room of the Firefly restaurant in North Platte, Neb.


By Michael Kelly
WORLD-HERALD COLUMNIST

Ex-mobster Henry Hill, who died at 69 this month in California, first found a home in the witness protection program in an out-of-the-way place — Omaha.

Hill, an FBI informant whose story inspired a Nicholas Pileggi book and then the Martin Scorsese movie “Goodfellas,” wrote about his hidden life in an autobiography.

“The Feds' job was to find a town in America that was safe from the wiseguys who wanted to kill me,” Hill wrote. “It was a pretty safe bet there weren't a lot of wiseguys in Omaha.”

By “wiseguys,” of course, he didn't mean smart alecks — but rather members of the Mafia.

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