P.I. arrest is hit as DA favor to Hasids

EX-REALITY TV private eye Vincent Parco says Brooklyn’s district attorney arrested him to thank a Jewish group for their votes.

Parco’s September bust on allegations he helped arrange a hotel tryst in a blackmail scheme came a week after acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez won the Democratic primary — all but securing his coveted job.

“Mr. Parco is a seasoned investigator who upon information and belief is being targeted to curry favor with the Satmar/Orthodox community, and among other things in retribution for his many previous investigations regarding the Satmar/Orthodox community,” his lawyer, Peter Gleason, said in a recent court filing.

Gleason argued Parco’s first court appearance on the salacious charges and a Sept. 19 press release trumpeting the case were “timed as a thank-you gift to the Orthodox/Hasidic community for Mr. Gonzalez’s vote tally from their community.” He said the 67-year-old — who appeared in a 2005 show called “Parco, P.I.” — has a history of poking around in matters involving the religious groups and once checked out a “firetrap” community center in Williamsburg that Satmar sect members built.

Gleason hurled the accusations in response to the DA’s bid to block Parco, his former client Samuel Israel, 45, and Parco’s ex-associate Tanya Freudenthaler, 41, from disseminating evidence. The three are charged with scheming to try to silence a woman who previously accused Israel of sexually assaulting her when she was 12. Israel was arrested on those allegations in 2016.

Prosecutors say the setup involved Israel hiring Parco for $17,000 to record a relative of the accuser’s dirty deeds in an effort to pressure the victim to stop cooperating.

But the victim’s family became angry instead of ashamed and reported the alleged shakedown efforts and the footage to the DA’s office, prosecutors said.

Parco faces counts including promoting prostitution and unlawful surveillance.Prosecutors hope to convince a judge to block the defense from publicly discussing or disclosing footage of the victim’s relative’s December 2016 romp.

Gleason says restrictions of any kind should not stand and denies that Parco knew about the alleged frame job.

Parco “needs all the discovery, without any encumbrances, in order to put on his defense as well as to clear his good name,” the lawyer wrote.

A spokesman for the DA declined to comment.