One More Cuomo ‘Prison Pal’

Another onetime Gov. Cuomo crony is likely headed to prison after Steve Pigeon, the Buffalo fixer and former Erie County Democratic chairman, took plea deals on state and federal bribery charges.

Pigeon doesn’t enter his federal-court plea until next week, but he copped last Friday in state court to bribing a state judge with free tickets, jobs and political appointments for family members over a three-year period.

In exchange, Pigeon got insider information and other favors involving cases pending before the court. (The judge, John Michalek, pleaded guilty long ago.)

Pigeon was Cuomo’s main man in Western New York — and an equal-opportunity hustler. He helped engineer the infamous 2009 “coup” against the state Senate’s Democratic majority. And he advised Carl Paladino, New York’s most radioactive Republican. That Cuomo took advice and donations from this guy is beyond telling.

Pigeon’s plea follows the corruption convictions of the gov’s longtime right-hand man, Joe Percoco, as well as his pal Todd Howe and his economic-development czar, Alain Kaloyeros.

Plus, of course, the corruption convictions of legislative leaders Shelly Silver and Dean Skelos, in part based on evidence gathered by Cuomo’s Moreland Act commission before he abruptly shut it down.

It’s a damning litany for a governor who took office vowing to clean up Albany.