Metro

Gal pal’s plea for Hiram

She’s standing by her man — yet again.

The ex-girlfriend of former state Sen. Hiram Monserrate has asked a federal judge to give the disgraced politician — once accused of slashing her face with broken glass — a lenient sentence in a mail-fraud case, describing him as “the kindest man I have known.”

“Hiram has always been very, very good to me and has never been hurtful to me,” Karla Giraldo gushes in a letter to Judge Colleen McMahon, denying claims that Monserrate intentionally slashed her in his Queens apartment in December 2008 during an argument.

She claims she merely “had an accident’’ the night her face was cut.

Giraldo’s testimony during Monserrate’s 2009 assault trial led to his acquittal on charges of deliberately cutting her.

He was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge because surveillance video showed him dragging a bleeding Giraldo out of the apartment by her hair. That conviction that led to the Senate expelling him.

Monserrate, 45, will be sentenced Dec. 11 by McMahon on charges related to his having obtained while a city councilman more than $100,000 for a nonprofit group that he knew he would utilize for his unsuccessful 2006 campaign for state Senate.

He pleaded guilty to mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud last May — and faces 21 to 27 months in prison under federal guidelines. His lawyer asked for community service.