GILLY’S HEAVY PETAL$

Pol shells out on jets, parking tix, flowers

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand dipped into her campaign funds for $57,000 worth of flowers, dozens of parking tickets and multiple trans-Atlantic flights, a Post review of federal election filings over the past decade has found.

Since 2009, the Albany Democrat’s Senate campaign paid at least $4,250 to Washington, DC, using the murky moniker “DC treasurer” in its Federal Election Commission filings.

The payments ranged from $50 to $730 and went to PO Box 2014. That box is used by the DC Department of Motor Vehicles for “parking, photo enforcement or minor moving violation[s],” a DMV spokesman confirmed.

“There is a prohibition on using campaign funds of a federal candidate committee for personal-use purposes,” an FEC spokesman said, adding the charges would be kosher only if incurred in the service of an official responsibility.

At least 25 such tickets were recorded. But they were the tip of the disbursement-berg.

The 53-year-old junior senator and former presidential candidate dropped at least $57,300 on flowers, including $227 for flower deliveries in France.

She favored upscale city shops, largely eschewing florists from her native Albany. Her largest single flower expenditure was to New York City’s Plantshed, where she dropped $1,833.17 in January 2012. Her favorite city florist was Manhattan’s Zeze Flowers, where she spent $16,850 over the years.

The flowers were offered as gifts for supporters and fundraiser hosts, according to the campaign, which declined to elaborate.

Gillibrand’s Senate fund also shelled out $12,500 for tickets on British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iceland Air. Her husband, venture capitalist Jonathan Gillibrand, is originally from England and his family still lives there.

“Her husband’s parents, who are loaded, live in London, and they go there to spend the holidays, Kirsten and her family,” one former Gillibrand staffer said. “They always go at least at Christmas and maybe more. I actively recall British Airways. I know that because I dropped her off there.”

The senator recorded 12 payments for travel-related expenses to British Airways. International flights charged to the campaign were logged in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016 and 2018.

On one such visit in April 2018, Gillibrand retained the services of iChauffeur, a $219 charge she also billed to her Senate campaign.

Gillibrand reps said the foreign travel was for fundraisers with the

American expat community.

Gillibrand also has a taste for private planes, spending $462,900 on flights provided by boutique charter service Zen Air. There have been other splurges. In December 2011, she dropped $390 on an unknown item from Hermès of Paris. The filing earmarked it as “office expenses.”

Another $435 went to the luxury retailer to buy gifts for supporters. There was also $500 for fine-art photography from the Virgin Islands and $300 to Manhattan’s Playwrights Horizons theater for “research.”

Gillibrand reps said the off

Broadway charge was to send a staffer to watch “The True,” a play about Gillibrand’s grandmother.

“These are routine campaign expenses compiled over a decade: campaign-staff parking tickets, office supplies, thank-you gifts for fundraising hosts and travel costs associated with fundraising overseas,” one rep, Evan Lukaske, said.

By contrast, over the same period, Sen. Chuck Schumer never tapped his Senate fund for parking tickets and spent $1,350 on flowers, FEC filings reveal. And while he did share a taste for private air travel, his bills to Air Charter Express totaled just $125,000.