Crime & Safety

Iacono and Geritano Not Testifying, Criminal Case Unclear

Neither the Lucali pizzaman or the convicted felon are giving Grand Jury testimony.

owner Mark Iacono isn't testifying before the Grand Jury, and neither is his partner in last month's , Benny Geritano.

Both men were charged with .

Without the testimony, there are no criminal charges, and both men could end up walking away, reported the Daily News Thursday.

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"The district attorney's office is not putting the pizza pie guy into the grand jury and they're not putting Mr. Geritano into the grand jury," said Geritano's lawyer Steven Kartagener on Wednesday.

"So I think what's going to happen ... the charge against the pizza guy and the charge against Mr. Geritano are going to wither on the vine and not go forward," he said.

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Kartagener has maintained since Geritano's arraignment that his client was the victim, and the first to be stabbed.

After a verbal argument between Geritano and Iacono, he said, Geritano tried to walk away, and was then stabbed in the back by Iacono.

"Iacono's knife landed the first blow," said Kartagener at the arraignment last month in Brooklyn criminal court, adding that Geritano's blade was a 3-inch pocket knife, while Iacono's was the size of a "butcher knife."


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