Leave the Gun, Take the Wasabi

Posted by Baylen on Feb. 11, 2008

If I had the mafia after me, I’d make myself scarce. I’d be gone — like Keyser Soze gone. Here’s what I probably wouldn’t do.

Joseph Vollaro - the mob rat whose underworld revelations are rocking the Gambino crime family - brashly strolled into… Staten Island sushi restaurant [Mizu] Saturday night to pick up some takeout, even though he’s supposed to be in the federal witness-protection program.

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Either way, Vollaro’s appearance in the neighborhood rife with wiseguys seemed particularly bizarre. It came just two days after authorities busted 62 New York mobsters, some of them because of secret recordings the Staten Island trucking executive made.

The indicted gangsters include the entire top tier of the Gambino crime family, at least those not already in prison.

The NY Post and Gothamist have more.

So what’s Mizu? Is it worth dying for? If this video of Mizu master chef “Saggy” flinging knives like a Benihana pro is any evidence, I’d say no.

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