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It’s a schmoozing violation.
The highest-ranking traffic judge in Queens, Bushra Vahdat, allegedly spent four hours one workweek arranging to rent her $825,000 summer home on Martha’s Vineyard — and her meandering conversations were captured on secret video and audio tapes.
The jabbering jurist boasts about the house’s granite kitchen counters, outdoor fire pit and Jacuzzi — then happily yammers on about other matters, including the origin of her name (it’s Indian), her travels to Mexico and Italy, an affinity for puzzles and her daughter’s messy Manhattan apartment.
All while she’s supposed to be working.
That’s according to private eye Vinny Parco, whose client had a beef with Vahdat last year and wanted to know more about how she conducts herself at the DMV building in Flushing, where Vahdat serves as supervising administrative judge.
Vahdat, 53, was banned from doing outside work in 2007 when state investigators found she spent her office hours representing Payless Shoes, a client of her private practice.
Parco sent in a female undercover gumshoe, who posed as a potential renter of Vahdat’s four-bedroom spread near Lagoon Pond in Oak Bluffs, Mass.
The spy recorded their two phone calls, lasting three hours combined, and a one-hour meeting in February 2012.
“Do you want me to describe the rooms to you?” Vahdat asked in the first call on Feb. 13, which lasted two hours.
She was seeking to rent the house for $3,550 during the last week of August 2012.
“I love doing this. The house is closed for the winter and I miss it, so I love talking about it.”
Vahdat described the “pretty well-equipped kitchen” and a dining room with a TV and video games, along with a finished attic and wraparound porch with swinging chairs, grill and view of the pond.
But she also blabbed about personal subjects, griping of her daughter’s cramped West Village studio and how it’s packed with clothes.
“I mean, she is horrible,” Vahdat says in the second call on Feb. 16, which lasted an hour.
“And so is her boyfriend. I have no idea how they do this. You can barely walk around their apartment. Every time I open the door, I just go, ‘Oh my God!’ ”
She made it a point not to use her lunch break for much of the wheeling and dealing.
In the Feb. 16 phone call, she told the “renter” to meet her at her office the next day to hand off a deposit check — and suggested a time during regular work hours.
“I will be in at 9 and I’ll be here till about 12 . . . then I’ll be back again at like 2,” Vahdat says.
Their meeting occurred after her two-hour break, and lasted from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., according to the office clock plainly visibly on the videotape. During the meeting she also showed off photos of the summer home to her visitor on her work computer.
Both phone calls also fell during work hours — the first at 11:51 a.m. on Feb. 13, the second at 10:21 a.m. on Feb. 16.
Vahdat, who earned $98,025 in 2010 and started at the DMV in 1990, declined to comment when questioned by The Post.
“It has already gone up the chain,” she said.