According to the book "Wiseguy", after he made bail on the narcotics charge,there were at least two attempts by Jimmy to set Henry up to get killed. One was where Jimmy asked Henry to meet him at a bar in Queens which was owned by a guy named "Charlie the Jap". Hill said that he had never been to this particular bar and all of a sudden Burke wants to meet up there. Hill also said that it was the type of place that would be perfect for a hit (enclosed rear courtyard-easy to take a body out without being seen,among other features),and the second attempt was when Jimmy tried to get Henry to go to Florida with one of his crew members to kill Bobby Germaine's son. Hill said that he knew that if he went to Florida,he wasn't coming back.

Had Henry stayed on the streets,sooner or later he would have gotten hit. That's why the head of the Strike Force,(McDonald) had Henry arrested again,this time as a material witness in the Lufthansa heist. That's when Henry weighed his options and knew he had no out,except to turn informant.