Att’y given 2 months in rehab scam

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

A Queens defense attorney known as “Mighty Whitey” who was convicted of writing a fake letter to get a client into a drug rehab program was sentenced to two months of detention on Friday, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.

Scott Brettschneider was handed 60 days in a community center, four years of probation, and a $2,000 fine for his role in the scheme, prosecutors said.

“Brettschneider has now been held accountable for breaking the law he had been sworn to uphold,” U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement.

Brettschneider (photo) was arrested last March on charges of writing a phony letter to the federal Board of Prisons on behalf of his drug-dealing client Richard Marshall.

Marshall was arrested for crack cocaine distribution, but Brettschneider invented a history of drug and alcohol addiction to try to land him a spot in a rehab program that might spring him from jail early, prosecutors said.

Marshall pleaded guilty to conspiracy to making false statements in October, and received three years of probation and a $1,500 fine.

The rehab scheme isn’t Brettschneider’s first brush with the law.

The Daily News reported last year that federal prosecutors were investigating Brettschneider for concocting a scheme to manufacture a wrongful conviction suit that could make him rich.

Brettschneider and an associate, Charles Gallman, were caught on tape planning to bribe a witness in a murder case to recant his testimony in the hopes of overturning the conviction of the murder subject, authorities said. The lawyer was going to then file a wrongful conviction suit he hoped would yield a multimillion-dollar settlement, according to the feds.