A meal to die for
Freed kayak killers luxe lunch
Now that’s a killer meal! The Latvian immigrant who watched her fiancé drown in the Hudson River walked out of prison Thursday — and celebrated with a martini-and-steak lunch.
Angelika Graswald, 37, was sprung from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester, a month after she was sentenced to 1¹/3 to four years in prison for criminally negligent homicide in the July 2015 death of her beau.
She got out because of time served while awaiting trial. A federal immigration judge will decide if she gets deported following a 16-month parole period.
“The possibility exists, but they have not detained her,” said her lawyer, Richard Portale.
Graswald, who admitted to watching fiancé Vincent Viafore, 46, drown after pulling the drain plug from his kayak, checked her reflection in her lawyer’s white Infiniti automobile before standing before reporters in front of the jail.
“Angelika is so grateful to be here today,” Portale said. “She is grateful for this day. She’s excited to be able to reconnect with her family in a meaningful way.”
Graswald did not take any questions and was accompanied by two women, one who stepped out of Portale’s car to film the reporters with a camera as the lawyer spoke.
The foursome then sped off to a white-tablecloth Mount Kisco eatery.
A man who identified himself as another of Graswald’s law- yers used his Range Rover ass a blocker car — weaving between lanes at 60 mph in an effort to shake off reporters.
At one point, the Range Rover cut off a school bus and stopped at a green light so Portale could get away.
Once at the Lexington Square Café, a surf-and-turf eatery, Graswald, both of her lawyers and the two women sat in a private room on the second floor.
They started the celebratory meal with four martinis.
Graswald then devoured a $38 steak, cooked medium.
The “Kayak Killer” wouldn’t say whether she’d enjoyed the cut as she left the eatery but Portale said, “She did, she sure did. She’s really happy to have more than 10 minutes to eat.”
Graswald was originally charged with second-degree murder in Viafore’s death. During an 11-hour interrogation she told cops, “I wanted him dead and now he’s gone . . . and I’m OK with it.”
She later struck a deal on the lesser charge and spent a total of 32 months behind bars.
Prosecutors alleged that she had plotted to kill Viafore for his $250,000 life-insurance policies — but she has always claimed his death was a tragic accident.
“She is grateful to be able to breathe in the fresh air. To be sure, reconnecting is going to be difficult, and reconstructing her life is going to be difficult,” Portale said.
“Her day-to-day, her reality, is much different today than it was 32 months ago when she went into jail.”