Ax feels like 2014 chop by Cuomo

FORMER Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara jokingly compared his sudden firing by President Trump to Gov. Cuomo’s controversial decision to disband an anti-corruption commission while it was in the middle of investigating Albany.

“By the way, now I know what the Moreland Commission must have felt like,” Bharara tweeted Sunday, a day after he was fired.

Cuomo launched the Moreland Commission in 2013 to probe corruption among state politicians — but disbanded it in March 2014 following the passage of modest ethics reforms.

The Daily News reported in 2014 that the commission faced intense pressure from Cuomo’s office after it began to eye entities with ties to the governor’s office.

The panel had been investigating legislators’ outside income and campaign cash spending when Cuomo dissolved it.

Bharara seized commission documents, which he then used in his own investigations in Albany. He vowed to complete the commission’s “important and unfinished work” and said its closure was “premature.”

Bharara’s office convicted exAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of corruption in separate trials last year.

He has been an outspoken critic of Cuomo’s decision to disband the commission, though he announced in January 2016 there was “insufficient evidence” to prove the closure was a federal crime.

Political circles speculated about the full implications of Bharara’s tweet drawing a parallel between his firing and the end of the commission.

Trump fired Bharara only two days after it emerged that watchdog groups had asked the U.S. attorney to investigate whether Trump’s business ties with foreign governments violated the Constitution.

Bharara’s tweet also added fuel to speculation he might challenge fellow Democrat Cuomo next year.

The prosecutor can count Public Advocate Letitia James among his supporters.

“Run, Preet, Run,” she tweeted Saturday.