A former Hillary Rodham Clinton ally who served time for felony fraud and federal corruption is among those leading the charge to put Bill de Blasio into City Hall, The Post has learned.
Former Rockland County Democratic Chairman Paul Adler — who was also eyed in the Bill Clinton clemency-for-votes probe in New Square a decade ago — was among nine co-chairs at de Blasio’s million-dollar fund-raiser in Midtown on Monday.
Adler and his wife, Mary, got a private audience with de Blasio and host Hillary Clinton for raising at least $25,000 toward the Democratic candidate’s campaign.
Adler, like de Blasio, had been a close advisor to Clinton’s 2000 senate campaign in New York and had even hosted her at his home.
Now a Vice President at Rand Commercial Services, Adler was sentenced to 19 months in prison in 2002 after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges — including accepting bribes from developers and attempting to influence members of a local zoning board. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion for not reporting $150,000 worth of income.
A party bigwig at the time, Adler’s files had reportedly been seized by the FBI in 2001 as part of a probe into President Bill Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of four Orthodox Jews who had been convicted of stealing federal anti-poverty funds in New Square.
The clemency came on Clinton’s last day in office, after the Hasidic town had overwhelmingly voted for Hillary for Senate — by a margin of 1,400 to 12.
The federal probe was subsequently dropped.
A spokesman for the de Blasio campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment.
But Adler, who in the past decade has passed the state bar and was named Rockland County’s philanthropist of the year in 2011, said his support of de Blasio was strictly borne out of friendship.
“I have known Bill since 1996. My interest in the race is strictly personal,” he told The Post. “The only reason I wanted to help is because he’s a friend.”
Among the other co-chairs at the Roosevelt Hotel bash were three lobbyists at two of the city’s top firms. Kasirer Consulting founder Suri Kasirer and senior VP Julie Greenberg — whose clients include major real-estate developers like Extell Development and Forest City Ratner — each helped raise at least $25,000, and Capalino+Company’s James Capalino raised a similar amount.
Capalino represents Rudin Management, which is building the West Village luxury condos that de Blasio fought against when trying to save St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center from closing in 2010.