Albany Corruption-as-Usual

In a sane world, the criminal convictions of the Legislature’s two top leaders would have political officials racing to prove they’re as pure as the driven snow.

Not in New York. No, in Albany, pols share one goal: to protect their “cauldron of corruption” at all costs.

That’s the takeaway from their widespread refusal to return the tainted donations received from Glenwood Management, the realestate firm implicated in the Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos trials.

Gov. Cuomo has set the tone by clinging to the $1.2 million he got from Glenwood. But lawmakers and their political committees are following suit, right down the line.

The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, for instance, took in $205,000 from Glenwood and its affiliates.

A Glenwood attorney testified at Silver’s trial that after a 2011 meeting, Silver de manded $125,000 for the DACC. Within days, five $25,000 checks arrived.

Will the DACC return the cash? Tuesday, it wouldn’t even return a call from The Post. Meanwhile, the Senate Republican campaign and “housekeeping” committees took $1.5 million from Glenwood. A spokesman declined to comment.

Ditto for the fivemember Independent Democratic Caucus — which has coled the Senate for three years.

The IDC got $266,000 in Glenwood cash; its leader, Jeff Klein, raked in $142,000 by himself.

How telling that lawmakers are zipping their lips about Glenwood. The firm was in the corruption business; its CEO was listed as an unindicted coconspirator.

Any pol who keeps its cash plainly has no interest in cleaning up Albany sleaze.