Wannabe Mobster who stabbed Pizza Maker Calls Iacono a 'Great Guy'

A dopey mob wanna-be said yesterday he carved up a famous pizza maker over 'family issues' - but all is forgiven, writes the New York Daily News.

Battista (Benny) Geritano, who the FBI says is a suspect in four old murders, claims he was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Mark Iacono, owner of Lucali pizzeria, in a bloody April 15 street fight.

Both men were arrested, but the charges were dropped because neither wanted to go before a grand jury.

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We already covered this on June 22: http://cosa-nostra-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/knife-fight-ends-in-draw-happily.html





Knife Fight Ends in a Draw, Happily


A Friday afternoon in April. A celebrated pizza chef and a mobster, acquaintances from the neighborhood, were slashing each other bloody on the streets of Brooklyn. Smith Street to be precise. Some say it was over a woman, that the chef was dating the ex-girlfriend of the mobster.

The fight occurred outside Joe’s Superette deli in Carroll Gardens, a few blocks from Lucali on Henry Street, where pizza chef Mark Iacono sweated on a daily basis over his wood-burning oven, for years drawing rave reviews for his pizzas.

Iacono suffered significant blood loss on that Friday in April, as did Batista "Benny" Geritano. The police charged both men with attempted murder and other crimes.

They declined, however, to testify against each other. Each man walked away from court yesterday, when the Brooklyn district attorney had to dismiss all charges.

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