Seabrook wants term at home

Disgraced city jails union boss Norman Seabrook — convicted of diverting millions from his members’ pension f und for $60,000 and a handbag — wants his upcoming prison term changed to home confinement out of fear he’ll contract COVID-19, court filings show.

Seabrook, former head of the city Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, asked a federal judge if he could serve his sentence at home, with his attorney arguing Black men with heart disease are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, the papers say.

“It is unclear if (or when) the Bureau of Prisons will obtain the [COVID] vaccine…. Against the aforesaid backdrop, I urge the Court to grant modification of Defendant’s 58 month sentence,” stated Seabrook’s attorney, Roger Adler, in a letter filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

“As the C.D.C. notes, Black senior citizens, and those with C.O.P.D. [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] are at the highest risk for infection and premature death.”

Seabrook faces a 58 month sentence for channeling $20 million of union funds into the failing hedge fund, Platinum Partners, in exchange for a Ferragamo bag with $60,000 in it.

Seabrook (photo), who has served none of his term, is due to turn himself in on Dec. 29th.

As an alternative, Adler also asked that his client’s prison date be pushed back to April, 20, 2021, to allow more time for vaccines to be distributed.

“The court, I note, imposed a jail sentence — not a capital sentence,” Adler wrote in the letter.

As of this week, 141 federal prisoners and two Bureau of Prisons employees have died of COVID-19. The federal prison systemy houses 154,000 prisoners.p