$ not why I let Prez kids off hook: DA

A CAMPAIGN spokesman for Manhattan prosecutor Cy Vance Jr. denied any wrongdoing Wednesday even as the lawman is returning a $31,000 contribution from President Trump’s attorney.

The 2013 donation from Trump’s longtime personal lawyer was sent back amid new revelations about Vance’s decision to pass on prosecuting Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr.

The First Family siblings came into the district attorney’s crosshairs during Vance’s first term in office for allegedly duping prospective buyers in a failed Manhattan project dubbed Trump SoHo.

“Contributions have never influenced Cy Vance’s work, and they never will,” said Vance campaign spokesman Steve Sigmund in confirming the giveback.

“Every contribution is vetted through a rigorous process, accepted when appropriate, and returned when flagged. That’s exactly what happened in this instance.”

Vance is seeking election to his third term next month.

A story by WNYC, ProPublica and The New Yorker raised the issue in recounting the criminal probe started in 2010 against the President’s children — Ivanka, 35, and Donald Jr., 39.

The piece cited email evidence indicating the Trumps openly lied about the occupancy rate at the building to lure new customers.

The report quoted a source as saying the emails left “no doubt” that the Trump children “approved, knew of, agreed to, and intentionally inflated the numbers to make more sales.”

Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz met directly with the Manhattan district attorney in May 2012 about the fraud investigation. He had previously donated $25,000 to Vance, although the prosecutor returned the money before the sitdown to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.

Kasowitz made a subsequent $31,993 donation to Vance in January 2013. In between the meeting and the second contribution, the prosecutor dropped the Trump investigation in August 2012 against the advice of his own investigators, the report said.

The juxtaposition of events raised the whiff of impropriety for critics.

“By providing special access (Vance) . . . has invited embarrassing questions about his conduct,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of the goodgovernment group Common Cause of New York.

“We need to have more honest policy discussions about removing private money from the criminal justice system and replacing it with public financing of elections.”

According to Sigmund, an additional $9,000 from employees at Kasowitz’s law firm and $9,000 more raised at a breakfast hosted by Kasowitz were not returned.

Kasowitz, who ignored a Wednesday email, said in a statement for the article that his donations were hardly nefarious.

“I donated to Cy Vance’s campaign because I was and remain extremely impressed by him as a person of impeccable integrity, as a brilliant lawyer and as a public servant,” he said.

“I have never made a contribution to anyone’s campaign, including Cy Vance’s, as a ‘quid pro quo’ for anything.”

Joan Vollero, director of communication for the DA’s office, said a two-year probe of the Trump case failed to produce enough evidence for criminal prosecution.

And she noted that Trump SoHo buyers who sued the Trump Organization in 2010 later reached a settlement with the defendants.

“No outside attorney any decision in matter,” said Vollero.

Vance defended his decision to ProPublica, saying, “I did not at the time believe beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime had been committed.” influenced this