Wanna increase the odds of getting hit with a felony? Pal around with Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks.
One Meeks pal, real-estate agent Edul Ahmad, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a $50 million mortgage-fraud scheme. He’s facing 10 years in federal prison, plus millions in fines and restitution.
It will be interesting to see if part of Ahmad’s plea deal includes his dishing details on the $40,000 he loaned Meeks in 2007 — money that the congressman failed to list on his financial-disclosure forms, and paid back only after the FBI started snooping.
The House Ethics Committee has been investigating the disclosure issue for more than two years now.
Ahmad follows another Meeks pal/benefactor, R. Allen Stanford — a former Texas tycoon now serving a 110-year sentence for swindling investors out of $7 billion over 20 years in a huge Ponzi scheme.
As The Post reported last year, after receiving the $40,000 loan, Meeks desperately worked to set up a meeting between Ahmad and Stanford, host of various opulent Meeks fund-raisers (which might have violated campaign-finance laws).
As the saying goes, one is known by the company he keeps. So, no wonder the feds want Ahmad talking.
The Post revealed in July that the US Attorney for the Eastern District is probing millions in taxpayer dollars Meeks directed to a nonprofit, the Greater Jamaica Development Corp.
The feds first started looking at Meeks after Post stories in 2010 revealed that the New Direction Local Development Corp. — a nonprofit Meeks helped found — collected thousands of dollars for Hurricane Katrina victims and distributed almost none of it to the victims.
Think Meeks is a little nervous about what Ahmad might share with the feds?
He should be.