Give dirty L.I. pols 8 years: feds

Suffolk County’s corrupt former district attorney and his top aide should spend eight years behind bars for covering up a brutal beating by the county’s one-time police commissioner, prosecutors said on Friday, calling for prison terms far longer than the sentences suggested under federal guidelines.

Thomas Spota (photo) and aide Christopher McPartland were convicted in 2019 of running a years-long cover-up of an attack by former Suffolk County Police Commissioner James Burke on a shackled man suspected of stealing a “party bag” of pornography, sex toys and Viagra out of Burke’s car in 2012.

Federal guidelines call for sentences of 57 to 71 months — slightly less than five years to almost six years — in prison.

But the pair deserve stiffer sentences of 96 months, or eight years, “in light of the egregiousness” of their crimes, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Gatz wrote in a sentencing memorandum on Friday.

“Ultimately, the sentences imposed should reflect the unprecedented magnitude and scope of the defendants’ abuse of power,” Gatz wrote.

Attorneys for Spota, 80, called for no prison sentence at all, citing the former DA’s declining health and old age.

“It is not hyperbolic to say that any term of imprisonment could be a death sentence for Tom. Such a harsh penalty is simply not warranted,” wrote Alan Vinegrad, Spota’s attorney, in sentencing documents.

Spota and McPartland, 55, were convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, witness tampering and acting as accessories in violating the civil rights of the beating victim, Christopher Loeb. Both men are out on bail pending their sentencing.

The former police chief pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 46 months in prison for his role in the case.

Sentencing for Spota and McPartland is scheduled for June 30 in federal court on Long Island before Judge Joan Azrack.