An important detail left out of the film was Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke's involvement was the sports bribery scandal in which they paid players of the Boston College Basketball Team to shave points. This scheme was intertwined with the Luftansa Airlines Heist chronicled in the film. Both Henry and Jimmy used the earnings from the heist to make bets on the team with different bookmakers all over New York City. In an interview for the ESPN series "30 for 30" which chronicles this scheme in the episode "Playing For The Mob", Henry Hill says that Jimmy was making large bets everywhere using money from the heist. According to Henry, he had no idea for certain how much Jimmy bet on the fixed games but guessed that he was making bets totaling tens of thousands of dollars because Jimmy would fly into a rage whenever the players failed to deliver on the fixes, costing him untold thousands of dollars.

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