‘Guilty’ Shelly begs judge to say he isn’t

JURIES CONVICTED him twice for the same crimes, but Sheldon Silver still thinks the government hasn’t proved its case.

The disgraced former Assembly Speaker filed papers Friday asking Manhattan federal Judge Valerie Caproni to acquit him of seven corruption charges because the government didn’t prove he’d orchestrated twin corruption schemes earning him $4 million.

Allowing the verdict to stand, Silver attorney Michael Feldberg wrote, would be a “manifest injustice.”

“Any finding that Mr. Silver entered into a quid pro quo agreement to exchange official acts for bribes would … represent the product of rank speculation,” Feldberg wrote.

Silver was convicted a second time May 11 of running a scheme in which he leveraged his office to collect illicit referral fees from two law firms.

Silver’s first conviction was vacated last year because of a Supreme Court ruling that redefined the legal elements of political corruption.