Courting trouble

Suit accuses SI’s DA & wife

A whistleblower who was reassigned out of the Staten Island court system after he leveled allegations against a judge who happens to be the district attorney’s wife is firing back with a $25 million lawsuit.

The suit, filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, accuses Staten Island DA Michael McMahon of discussing secret “grand jury matters” with his wife, who was then one of the borough’s highest-ranking judges.

The allegations against the DA and state Supreme Court Justice Judith McMahon are included in the slander suit f iled by former chief court clerk Michael Pulizotto against the long- time head of the state Court Officers Association, Dennis Quirk.

In court papers, Pulizotto cites his own secretly made recording in which Quirk called him a “s--thead” and a “rat” on Sept. 5 — two days before Quirk allegedly arranged for the display of giant, inflatable rat bearing Pulizotto’s name and that of another worker outside the courthouse.

The suit was prepared by lawyer Richard Luthmann, a Reform Party official now under investigation in a political dirtytricks scheme that allegedly targeted Michael McMahon and others.

The DA denied Pulizotto’s allegations and called his suit “nothing more than a ridiculous claim by a self-serving, disgruntled employee and the grandstanding of his attorney.”

His wife’s lawyer also blasted the claims about her as “obviously absurd.”

Quirk’s lawyer, Bruce Baron, called Pulizotto’s suit “as frivolous as frivolous gets” and said Quirk “looks forward to his day in court.”