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Bruce Cutler must be crime free six months following his one hour anger management class in order to have the charge dismissed.
Bruce Cutler must be crime free six months following his one hour anger management class in order to have the charge dismissed.
Mob attorney Bruce Cutler is blaming his steakhouse “Raging Bull” routine on the stress of living in Manhattan, the New York Post reported on Thursday, December 19.

“It’s hard for me living in Manhattan,” he reportedly said to reporters following his sentencing to anger management Wednesday, December 19. The anger management sentence was the result of the fisticuffs that occurred at the Porter House restaurant in Columbus Circle in November.

“I don’t want to live in Manhattan. It’s a pressure cooker. I can’t handle that.”

Cutler reportedly punched a diner at the Midtown steakhouse for being too loud. He told the Post that it would be to his benefit to move to a calmer borough. He even suggested Brooklyn as the particular borough he would like to move to.

“I’d like to live in one of those new neighborhoods [in Brooklyn],” he reportedly said. “I can ride a bike and just walk around.”

At his arraignment in Midtown Community Court, an alternative¬ sentencing court, a judge ordered Cutler — who represented the late Gambino crime ¬family boss John Gotti in a string of 1980s trials — to enroll in a one ¬hour anger ¬management class.

The misdemeanor charge will be dismissed if he can keep his nose clean for six months.

According to the Post, Cutler, 65, said it was humbling to be in court as a defendant.

“A real man should be able to control himself” the lawyer reportedly said. “You must bite your lip and leave it be . . . It’s unhealthy and it’s unlawful and it’s foolish.”

He added, “My fighting days are over. The only fighting I’m going to do is in court.”

The altercation erupted on Nov. 7 at the Porter House when Cutler repeatedly told victim John Aiello, 38, to “settle down” while they sat at adjacent tables.

“I had a table of well ¬known people of note that I’ve known for 40 years,” Cutler said.

“I was sensitive to my company and protecting the integrity of my table.”

According to the Post:

“When Aiello and his pals blew off his requests, Cutler became so enraged that he sprung to his feet and slugged his fellow diner in the eye.

When cops hauled the lawyer into the Midtown North station house, they struggled to fit the cuffs around his fat wrists, he told The Post.

Cutler also apologized for punching the noisy diner. “I’m sorry that he [Aiello] was put in that position, that his name was in the paper,” he said Wednesday. “I’m sure he’s a decent guy.”

Cutler appeared in the 2001 Robert De Niro film “15 Minutes” and in a cameo playing himself on the hit TV show “Blue Bloods.”

The arrest will likely not affect his status with the New York State Bar Association.”

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