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The former state Senate Majority Leader was convicted Friday of bribery, extortion and conspiracy charges for abusing his powerful post to enrich his son. The Manhattan Federal Court jury also convicted his son Adam, 33, of aiding and abetting in the scheme.

The felonious father and son face up to 130 years in prison when they’re sentenced by Judge Kimba Wood on March 3. That’s the same amount of time former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is facing after his Nov. 30 conviction on corruption charges.

Dean and Adam Skelos stood stone-faced while their guilty verdicts were read. The father — as his wife, Gail, sobbed — reached over and lightly rubbed his son’s shoulder.

“The convictions of former Speaker Silver and former Majority Leader Skelos should be a wakeup call for the Legislature and it must stop standing in the way of needed reforms,” he added.

Skelos lawyer Robert Gage said he will appeal.

“We’re obviously very disappointed with the verdict. The next step is pretrial motions. We intend to pursue them vigorously,” said Gage, as the elder Skelos, looking misty-eyed and grim, stood beside him outside the federal courthouse on Worth St. Jury forewoman Cynthia Nehlsen said she felt the entire process had been clean.

“We wanted to give them a fair trial,” she told the Daily News. “And we did.”

The jury never struggled with a split decision, Nehlsen said, although they did ask to hear some additional recordings. “We just wanted to make sure of our decisions. There were a lot of things. The state gave a great timeline for us.”

Within an hour of the verdict, Dean Skelos’ name had been scraped off his office door in Albany and the Senate website updated his bio to call him a “former state senator.”

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara tweeted his reaction.

“How many prosecutions will it take before Albany gives the people of New York the honest government they deserve?” he said.

Skelos is the 12th statewide elected official to be convicted in a prosecution brought by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office since Bharara was appointed to the post in 2009.

Back in January, Skelos, 67, and Silver, 71, were two of the most powerful men in the state — two-thirds of the “three men in a room” with Gov. Cuomo, controlling the state’s budget and policy. Both were brought down by Bharara, who was a frequent attendee at the Skeloses’ three-week trial.

Skelos, despite the conviction, will still be eligible for his taxpayer-funded pension. The corrupt pol will likely be paid about $95,500 a year. Silver is eligible for a $90,700 annual pension.

“People are no longer surprised when a legislator gets convicted of corruption, but they’re always surprised and angry when they hear a convicted state legislator is entitled to a very rich pension,” said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union.

State law does not allow officials to go after the pensions of elected lawmakers and state government workers hired before November 2013. Skelos had been making $121,000 a year.

Prosecutors said the father and son fraudsters started running the “Skelos shakedown playbook” in 2010, after Republicans reclaimed control of the state Senate.

Skelos met with billionaire Leonard Litwin, the founder of real estate giant Glenwood Management, and his chief counsel, Charlie Dorego, to thank them for their support. They discussed tax breaks that were vital to the company that were coming up for renewal in the coming months — and at the end of the meeting, Skelos asked the pair to give some insurance title work to his son.

It was a request he’d repeat a dozen times in the months that followed, prosecutor Tatiana Martins said in her opening statement.

Dorego said he felt “badgered” and eventually arranged for Adam Skelos to get a $4,000-a-month job with AbTech, a company the Litwin family partially owned. When that deal didn’t come together fast enough, Skelos again pressured Dorego for money for his son, who he said was strapped for cash — even though he was pulling in well over $100,000 a year.

Dorego testified he then arranged for the son to get a $20,000 “referral fee” for a real estate deal he had nothing to do with. Adam “didn’t have to lift a finger, except to grab the money,” prosecutor Martins said.

But it wasn’t enough.

After AbTech landed a $12 million contract with Nassau County with Adam Skelos’ help, Dorego testified the “furious” son called him up and demanded that the company pay him more cash — or the Skeloses would decide the deal wasn’t worth their time.

AbTech exec Bjornulf White said he felt the company was being “held hostage” but had no choice but to pay. Adam Skelos’ salary was upped to $10,000 a month.

And when Nassau County was slow coming up with the cash on the contract, Dean Skelos personally called county higher-ups to get them to start shelling out the money. He even pushed County Executive Ed Mangano on the issue while they were at the funeral of slain NYPD cop Wenjian Liu, a wiretapped phone call showed.

“All claims that are in will be taken care of,” Dean told his son in a call from the funeral.

Adam Skelos didn’t fare much better at another job set up by an old friend of his father’s named Anthony Bonomo, who was the CEO of a medical malpractice insurance company called PRI.

With PRI dependent on recurring state legislation, Bonomo testified he thought it would help him stay in the senator’s good graces if he offered his son a job — a $78,000-a-year gig as a project manager.

Adam Skelos’ supervisor, Christopher Curcio, said the surly scion introduced himself on the first day of work, Jan. 2, 2013, saying, “You know who I am. I’m Adam Skelos.”

Curcio’s logbook showed the son would sometimes show up around noon before heading out to lunch and never returning. On one occasion, he showed up for five minutes and left.

“All claims that are in will be taken care of,” Dean told his son in a call from the funeral.

Adam Skelos didn’t fare much better at another job set up by an old friend of his father’s named Anthony Bonomo, who was the CEO of a medical malpractice insurance company called PRI.

With PRI dependent on recurring state legislation, Bonomo testified he thought it would help him stay in the senator’s good graces if he offered his son a job — a $78,000-a-year gig as a project manager.

Adam Skelos’ supervisor, Christopher Curcio, said the surly scion introduced himself on the first day of work, Jan. 2, 2013, saying, “You know who I am. I’m Adam Skelos.”

Curcio’s logbook showed the son would sometimes show up around noon before heading out to lunch and never returning. On one occasion, he showed up for five minutes and left.

When Bonomo told the senator his son hadn’t been bothering to show up to work, the unfazed Skelos told him “to work it out.”

Bonomo said he felt he couldn’t take any action against the younger Skelos for treating his work like a no-show job. “I didn’t want to have a problem in Albany,” he testified.

Adam Skelos kept not coming in, and in April former U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato — a PRI lobbyist and decades-long Republican power broker — went to talk to Skelos about the issue.

He said he told Skelos his son was “not showing up at work,” was “disruptive” when he did and that he could wind up getting fired.

The problem came to a head two months later, when Curcio again told Adam Skelos he had to actually come to work.

“Talk to me like that again and I’m going to smash your f—ing head in,” Curcio quoted the ornery offspring as saying. “Guys like you aren’t fit to shine my shoes.”

In their closing arguments, lawyers for the father and son maintained “no crime was committed” — Dean Skelos had just tried to help his son the way any father would, and hadn’t crossed any legal lines.

Prosecutor Jason Masimore disagreed, telling jurors in his closing argument that Skelos had used his power to intimidate companies “he could make or break” into lining his son’s pockets. Adam Skelos pocketed more than $300,000 from the various schemes.

“If the senator couldn’t manage his complicated, able-bodied adult son, that’s fine,” Masimore said. “Just don’t take that drama to Albany and corrupt the top levels of state government with it.”

With Denis Slattery, Kenneth Lovett, Glenn Blain

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