GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

The Hog looks like he’s heading for the pen.

That’s the likely fate of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers after a jury took less than two hours Thursday to find him guilty of being a tax cheat.

But the self-proclaimed “hog with the big nuts” went down swinging — repeating his claim that he’d been unfairly prosecuted by the feds for refusing to wear a wire against fellow Commissioner John Daley.

“Even Ray Charles could see that,” the 78-year-old told reporters minutes after he was convicted on four felony counts. “They thought I was a punk.”

Jurors quickly left the courthouse without speaking, although one juror who asked his name not be used later told the Sun-Times, “It was a heart-tugging decision.” Despite that, the jury’s extremely short deliberation at the end of a weeklong trial seemed itself to be a damning comment on Beavers’ defense.

Accused of using his political campaign accounts from 2006 until 2008 as a “slush fund” to swell his pension and for losing gambling sprees at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, then failing to pay taxes on those withdrawals, the sharp-suited, baritone-voiced former alderman claimed he’d merely loaned himself the money.

He blamed the county for failing to report $30,000 in expense checks that he took as income.

But prosecutor Carrie Hamilton successfully ridiculed those arguments, saying Beavers was an experienced politician who knew the rules but deliberately “kept everyone in the dark,” including the IRS, the Illinois Board of Elections and his own campaign staff.