Lawyer’s illness delays trial of gov’s aide

Monday’s testimony at the corruption trial of a former top aide to Gov. Cuomo has been canceled due to the illness of a defense lawyer whose questioning last week led to the arrest of the prosecution’s star witness.

The Manhattan US Attor- ney’s Office announced that Monday’s proceedings would be put off after a member of the defense team wrote to Judge Valerie Caproni saying that attorney Daniel Gitner was too sick “to continue his cross-examination of Todd Howe.”

Howe — who claims to have helped former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco pocket more than $300,000 in bribes — was arrested Thursday night after he admitted during his court testimony that he tried to scam his way out of a $600 stay at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

Howe said he stayed at the swank hotel while negotiating his cooperation agreement, which required that he not commit any more crimes.

Also Sunday, another defense lawyer objected to a prosecution request that Caproni tell the jury that Howe was jailed merely “as a result of his bail being revoked.”

Caproni hadn’t ruled on that request as of Sunday night.