As if this year’s campaign season weren’t already weird enough!
The notorious “Manhattan Madam” can now add “alleged drug dealer” to her credentials as an aspiring pol after getting busted by the FBI.
Former escort-service operator Kristin Davis — who claims to have provided hookers for rival comptroller candidate Eliot Spitzer — was charged with illegally peddling prescription pills, the feds said yesterday.
The buxom blonde allegedly sold hundreds of pills to a dealer from whom she had bought drugs in the past, and who secretly began working as an informant after getting arrested in December.
A Manhattan federal court complaint says Davis personally handed over pills in exchange for cash on three occasions between January and March, and also arranged for another person to sell the dealer a stash in April.
The drugs included oxycodone, amphetamines, and alprazolam, the active ingredient in Xanax, according to court papers.
All of the alleged exchanges occurred after Davis, 38, filed papers to run for office in September.
She publicly declared her Libertarian Party candidacy for comptroller in July, a day after ex-Gov. Spitzer — who resigned in disgrace over a prostitution scandal — said he would challenge Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for the Democratic nomination.
FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos called the allegations against Davis “especially unbecoming for a person seeking public office.”
Davis, who is charged with four counts of distributing and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance, was released on $100,000 bond after briefly appearing in court clad in gray slacks and a black sweater.
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn ordered her to undergo drug testing, a mental-health exam, and treatment if necessary.
Davis refused to comment afterward, but defense lawyer Daniel Hochheiser said she would plead not guilty if indicted.
“Kristin is accused by hearsay complaint, based upon the unsworn statements of an admitted drug dealer, who is seeking leniency at the expense of a high-profile target,” Hochheiser noted.