(NY Post) This trial now has its own pizza connection.
Bungling hitman Khalid Mehdiyev admitted in court today that instead of a cool, collected, globe-trotting assassin, he was actually just a guy who worked at a pizza joint — and that might explain the raft of errors he made when he tried to clip an exiled Iranian-American journalist in Brooklyn three years ago.
“As you’re coordinating an international kidnapping, you’re also working at a pizza shop?” Elena Fast, defense attorney for one of Mehdiyev’s alleged bosses, asked him as he sat on the stand in Manhattan federal court.
“That’s correct,” he answered.
“Big responsibility, doing both at the same time!” Fast said of the wannabe-killer’s day job at Peppino’s.
