Court copy ‘scam’

Staff duo set up bogus Xerox biz: DA

Two Manhattan court workers were busted Thursday for creating a defacto Kinkos pop-up in the courthouse and illegally charging the public for photocopies of legal documents, officials said.

Triston Baptiste, 34, and David Washington, 48, both court aides, were hauled out of 60 Centre St. in handcuffs Thursday over the alleged scam.

An undercover investigator from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office posing as a member of the public allegedly paid Baptiste $80 in cash to copy a court file on April 20, 2017, the complaint states.

Another DA investigator paid Baptiste a total of $800 for file copies on two occasions last summer, court papers allege.

The side gig was uncovered after the city Law Department complained about having to pay for previously free copies.

Washington allegedly told Law Department attorney Jeremy Feigenbaum that if he wanted a copy of a 3,200-page court file, he’d have to pay $820.

Feigenbaum forked over the sum in October 2016 and an investigation soon followed.

Members of the public are supposed to make their own copies on Record Room Xerox machines, which charge .25 cents a page and benefit the state Commission for the Blind.

Baptiste was arraigned on charges of petit larceny and official misconduct, while Washington was hit with attempted petit larceny and official misconduct raps.

They were both released from Manhattan Criminal Court without bail.

Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the Office of Court Administration, said the two staffers were reassigned pending an investigation.