Seabrook no case of ‘yada yada’

You can’t “yada yada” crime.

A prosecutor in the corruption retrial of Norman Seabrook on Monday argued the jails union boss has been trying to minimize the evidence that points to him accepting a $60,000 kickback in exchange for a $20 million investment of members’ money.

“Ladies and gentlemen, you can’t ‘yada yada’ Mr. Seabrook’s actions here,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Bell said in Manhattan Federal Court.

The prosecutor asked the jury to focus on Seabrook’s “lies, concealment and deception” and said his actions “stink to high heaven.”

“Yada yada” refers to the classic “Seinfeld” episode from 1997 in which George’s new girlfriend glosses over her shoplifting habit with the phrase.

Bell reminded the jury that Seabrook (inset) had suppressed a letter from a lawyer for the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association warning that the Platinum Partners hedge fund was risky, and not a typical place for the union to invest.

Seabrook is accused of accepting the $60,000 kickback from crooked Mayor de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz, who gave the union boss the cash stuffed in a Ferragamo bag in December 2014.

Bell went so far as to hold up the small man-purse to the jury and slip $20,000 into the bag, showing that $60,000 could easily fit inside.

“There is still an ocean of room in that bag,” Bell said.

“You could put $200,000 in that bag if you really stuff it.”

The union only recovered $1 million of its $20 million investment after Platinum went bankrupt.

But Seabrook attorney Paul Shechtman argued his client had not hidden the investment from the union’s executive board. He told the jury that the tale of the kickback was just a “con” by Rechnitz.