DA's plan to nail a 'pardoned' Manny

Manhattan prosecutors are making sure that if President Trump ever pardons his fraudster former campaign manager Paul Manafort, the convict could still be on the hook for criminal charges in the case.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has convened a grand jury to try to indict Manafort (above) on state criminal tax-fraud charges — which can’t be pardoned by a president, sources said.

Manafort, 69, was convicted of 10 federal felonies in Virginia and Washington, DC, for financial crimes related to money he earned as a consultant advising a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.

He could face more than 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced in both cases next month.

Now the Manhattan DA’s Office “believes there is enough of a crime in New York state to justify going ahead and seeking a grand jury indictment whether or not Trump pardons him,” said a DA source.

That way, if Trump ends up pardoning his buddy, Manafort would still face state charges including tax evasion and violations of state laws requiring accurate bookkeeping, sources told Bloomberg News. State convictions are not covered by presidential pardons.

The Post was the first to report that Trump hadn’t ruled out a pardon for Manafort, saying last November, “It’s not off the table.”

Still, the difficulty for the DA will be not running afoul of New York’s double-jeopardy laws, which protect defendants from being charged twice for the same crimes, Bloomberg said.

Christopher Conroy, chief of the DA’s Major Economics Crimes Bureau, is overseeing the state case.