They nailed him for everything but the bagel.
City Councilman Larry Seabrook’s lengthy political career came to a crashing end yesterday as jurors convicted him on nine counts at his corruption retrial.
The disgraced Bronx Democrat was found guilty of steering about $2 million in taxpayer money to shady nonprofits he used to employ his then-mistress, family members and friends.
But in a stunning move, the Manhattan federal jury acquitted Seabrook on three counts of scamming nearly $50,000 in “illegal thank-you payments” from a boiler-company owner he helped score a $300,000 contract for the new Yankee Stadium.
Prosecutors accused Seabrook, 61, of using fake and doctored receipts — including one that showed the purported purchase of a simple bagel sandwich and diet Snapple for a whopping $177 — to launder the alleged kickbacks through his political club.
“I think what he did in providing that receipt was morally wrong,” jury forewoman Kelly Ann Klein, of Bronxville, told The Post.
But she and fellow juror Stephanie Stringfellow, of The Bronx, said there were too many holes in that part of the case.
“The prosecution didn’t really prove those three counts, and we were struggling to understand how he violated those laws,” Stringfellow said.
Klein noted, however, that “it was an interesting receipt to look at for a bagel and Snapple.”
Seabrook, who also served in the state Senate and Assembly, was automatically ousted from office by his conviction.
His seat will be filled in a special, nonpartisan election on Nov. 6.
In the meantime, the council — which wasted no time removing Seabrook’s profile from its Web site — was planning to send staffers to his former district office to ensure that residents don’t lose access to city services.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Seabrook was “convicted of crimes that display a galling abuse of the trust and confidence placed in public officials.”
Under federal law, Seabrook, whose first trial last year ended in a hung jury, faces a maximum 180 years in the slammer at his scheduled Jan. 8 sentencing. Legal experts said he would likely get between about 4 1/2 and 6 1/2 years.
“My reaction is that I continue to have faith in God, faith in the system, faith in my attorneys, and faith in where we’re going to go,” Seabrook said after being found guilty of running three separate scams, one of which funneled more than $1 million to several Bronx nonprofits that were purportedly headed by his then-mistress, Gloria Jones-Grant.
Prosecutors said he secretly controlled the organizations, staffing them with “yes men” and “stooges” so he could dole out do-nothing jobs and lucrative “consulting” contracts.