PALS PROBED

But he defends only three

Gov. Cuomo on Monday threw a former longtime aide and two embattled appointees under the bus — by refusing to defend them after The Post obtained excerpts of a blockbuster subpoena that shows they and three other current or former members of his administration are under investigation by the feds.

A statement from Cuomo’s counsel, Alphonso David, said the governor had “full confidence” in three top-level staffers named in the subpoena, calling them “nothing more than victims or witnesses to a potential crime.”

The statement of support failed, however, to mention Joe Percoco, Cuomo’s former deputy executive secretary and campaign manager, and two other officials named in the subpoena: New York Power Authority President and CEO Gil Quiniones and former Economic Development Corp. spokesman Peter Cutler.

Percoco’s name was omitted despite his having been close to Cuomo’s family. At the funeral for Cuomo’s dad, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, the governor called Percoco “my father’s third son, who sometimes I think he loved the most.”

Sources have said that Percoco — who in January began working as a top executive for Madison Square Garden — is at the center of Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s widening probe of potential corruption in a slew of upstate development projects.

The federal subpoena served on Cuomo’s office last month de- manded evidence of “any actions taken” by the six officials “for the benefit of ” 20 different companies. Some of the firms named in the subpoena are involved in Cuomo’s signature Buffalo Billion revitalization effort, while others are working on other state-funded projects.

In addition to Percoco, Quiniones and Cutler, the subpoena names Director of State Operations Jim Malatras, Secretary to the Governor Bill Mulrow and outgoing Deputy Director of State Oper- ations for Policy Andrew Kennedy.

The latter three were praised by the governor’s office Monday.

“Bill Mulrow, Jim Malatras and Andrew Kennedy are honorable public servants and the governor has full confidence in them,” David said. “The subpoena does not focus on any current member of staff but rather third parties who may have exploited the state; to suggest otherwise is wrong, reckless and irresponsible.”

In a financial-disclosure form made public last week, Percoco reported earning up to $125,000 in consulting fees in 2014 from two corporations named in the subpoena, COR Development and CHA Consulting. During that year, Percoco left the government for eight months to run Cuomo’s re-election campaign.

Percoco’s ethics filing also revealed that his wife, Lisa ToscanoPercoco, raked in up to $100,000 in consulting fees from an entity identified as Chris Pitts LLC.

In addition to records involving the six officials, the subpoena demands that Cuomo’s office turn over “all documents or communications related to the investigation by the US Attorney’s Office.”

All of the current and former officials named in the subpoena declined to comment or didn’t return inquiries, except for Cutler, who acknowledged receiving his own subpoena from Bharara’s office.

The attorney general’s office declined to comment.