A career thug was ordered held in lieu of $150,000 cash bail on credit-card larceny yesterday, after prosecutors said he had graduated from violent felonies to white-collar crime.

Gregory Portacio, 51, had been at large for almost two months after being named as a co-defendant in a ring that allegedly stole account numbers by putting tiny card scanners into the hands of waiters at such posh Manhattan restaurants as Smith & Wollensky, The Capital Grille, Wolfgang’s Steakhouse and JoJo.

“He stands before this court having a record that includes a manslaughter conviction from the ’80s, a forcible-sex act from the ’90s, and now we have moved on to the white-collar phase of his criminal career,” Assistant District Attorney Kenn Kern told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Michael Obus.

In 1980, Portacio was convicted of manslaughter for grabbing the neck chain of a Queens pedestrian from a moving car, dragging her to her death when it didn’t snap.