A pizza-slinging pal of bullet-bosomed “Mob Wives” star Angela “Big Ang” Raiola tried to talk his way out of prison for a drug rap — but got smacked with a six-month term Wednesday after a Brooklyn federal judge said he needed a “taste” of the clink.
Anthony Cracchiolo, 33, was featured on the hit reality series and owned a since-shuttered pizzeria next door to Raiola’s Staten Island beauty salon, Big Ang’s Secret, on Hylan Boulevard.
He even called the buxom diva an “aunt-like” figure in an interview about his role on the show and counted another “Mob Wives” star, Renee Graziano, as a close friend.
But the pie purveyor’s rising profile was trashed when he got caught selling cocaine in addition to calzones.
Confidential informants working on a larger drug case bought coke from him on several occasions in 2012 and he was picked up on federal narcotics charges, court papers show.
Cracchiolo and his attorney, Joseph Mure Jr., lobbied Brooklyn federal Judge John Gleeson to spare him time behind bars and argued that he was now thriving as the manager of popular Manhattan pizza joint Dough Boys.
“I’ve changed and I realized right from wrong,’ Cracchiolo told the court.
But the skeptical jurist noted that his crimes had become increasingly serious over the years. Gleeson said the pie master had skated too many times on previous brushes with the law and that he needed “to taste some jail.” in order to finally grow up.
Citing a prior DWI rap in which Cracchiolo zigzagged across the Long Island Expressway at 100 mph, Gleeson blasted the fleeting television personality for failing to grow up.
“When is it going to stop?” he asked Cracchiolo, who also served as a bartender at Raiola’s Drunken Monkey bar. “You’re not getting any younger. You’re too old for this nonsense.”
In addition to the DWI, Cracchiolo also has a prior drug bust as well as harassment arrests.
In addition to the six-month term in federal prison, Gleeson also nailed Cracchiolo with three years probation and six months of an 8 p.m.-to-6 a.m. home curfew after his release.He will surrender at a later date to begin his sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
After the sentencing, the pizza perp would not comment on his role on the show or current relationship with Ang.