Take stock of sleazy ‘broker’

Sextortionist podcaster

He portrays himself as a sharpdressed financier with an office across from the New York Stock Exchange and a podcast called “Dante’s Inferno,” which promises to “fire up your finances.”

But Dante Michael Anthony Vitoria is really a shady ex-stockbroker who went to prison in 2008 for a Long Island sextortion scheme, The Post has learned.

Vitoria’s self-reinvention began when he legally changed his name from Michael Largue in May 2014.

He then began paying $2,300 a week to host a radio show called “On the Money with Mike Vitoria,” which began airing the following September on WNYM.

But station owner Salem Media of New York canceled the program in April 2015 when it learned of his sordid past, according to a $1 million-plus breach-of-contract suit that Vitoria (inset), 56, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Back when he was still known as Largue, Vitoria and then-girlfriend Shawn Payne were busted in a scheme that involved trawling hook-up sites for targets who were seduced and then ripped off.

The couple allegedly extorted a married man by secretly recording his trysts with Payne, then threatening to send lurid photos and videotapes to his wife, according to the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

Vitoria was also accused of convincing at least one woman to empty her bank accounts when he posed as “an investment banker or wealthy entrepreneur who was constantly at important meetings and conducting major business deals,” the DA’s office said. “His office was nothing more than a ‘virtual office’ in Garden City where he rented space on an hourly basis,” then-Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said in 2007.

Vitoria pleaded guilty to grand larceny and spent more than four years in the slammer before being released in 2012. He then got locked up again for another year on a domestic-violencerelated parole violation, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

A 1998 exposé by the New York Observer detailed how Vitoria’s stockbroker’s license was suspended for two years in 1993. He hasn’t been registered to work as a broker or investment adviser since then, according to the feds.

Reached by The Post outside his apartment in Gravesend, Brooklyn, Vitoria declined to answer questions, citing his pending suit and “a book in the works.”