Hynes’ final disgrace

You call this enforcement? More than four years after then-Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes turned his public office into an appendage of his final, and fortunately failed, reelection campaign, the city’s ethics cop is handing down something like punishment.

For violating the public trust, Hynes will pay $40,000, a Conflicts of Interest Board record, and four subordinates will together pony up $14,500.

The numbers are almost enough to make you think there are stiff consequences in this town for turning civil servants into campaign henchmen. Until you look at the date on the papers: Telling a pol there may be a price to pay four springs hence, theoretically after another full term in office passes, puts the “duh” in deterrence.

So extensive are the former DA’s confessed sins, they take 21 letters of the alphabet — a. through u. — to detail.

He admits to “routinely and extensively” doing 2013 reelection work from his office computer and official email account: fundraising, strategizing, lining up endorsements. Interacting with consultants and pollsters. Repeatedly talking about the campaign with “a friend, who was a sitting judge.”

Leaning on his subordinates in the DA’s office during work hours — when they are paid by taxpayers to be prosecuting crimes — as though they were on the campaign clock.

Put the outrageous exhibit atop the ream-high pile of Hynes disgraces, including miscarriages of justice; paying a political consultant with what seemed to be assets seized in criminal investigations; a two-decade failure to prosecute sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community; and the prosecution of a gadfly for felony voting.

Countless New Yorkers have known for years how badly Joe Hynes betrayed his city. Congrats to the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board for belatedly joining the crowd.