No, It Doesn’t Look Legal

If the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation goes ahead with its plan to bail out every jailed woman and teen in New York City, it will have to end-run the law — if not break it.

Top figures in the bail-reform movement such as state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bx) and City Councilman Rory Lancman (DQueens) note that charities can now legally post bail only for defendants facing misdemeanor charges whose bail is $2,000 or less.

Rivera literally wrote the 2012 law that allowed the practice at all. Lancman was deeply involved in the effort to set up the council-funded Liberty Fund — which took years, because the charity had to meet state Financial Services regulations.

So the RFK folks can’t legitimately spring people charged with manslaughter and other felonies, such as Manuel Rivera, 18, one of the dozen or so Trinitarios accused in the brutal stabbing death of 15-year-old Leandro Feliz-Guzman.

Nor the likes of Leila Ward, who was or- dered held on $999,999 bail last May over charges involving the OD death of her son.

Which is all to the good, as police sources and even City Hall are dubious about any more aggressive effort.

One high-ranking police source told The Post, “The odds are not that good if some rich person puts up the money. You won’t feel as obligated to show up.” And a spokesman for Mayor de Blasio said, “We support any effort that focuses on bail assistance for low-level offenders who don’t pose a publicsafety risk.”

Legal charity-funded bail seems to work: The Bronx Freedom Fund, created after passage of the Rivera law, claims that 96 percent of the misdemeanor defendants it bailed out of Rikers returned to court for trial.

We’re still trying to figure out how the foundation paid $100,000 to spring Pedro Hernandez, the poster child for bail reform, last year. If it was a gift to a relative who actually paid the bail, that’s likely taxable income. Does the family know that?