Vito Lopez has more than just sexual-harassment allegations to worry about.
The state ethics committee investigating his alleged antics with young staffers is looking into potential misuse of taxpayer dollars for everything from personal trips to his payoff of women who accused him of harassing them, several sources told The Post.
The Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) has been asking witnesses about how Lopez spent public money, in addition to probing whether he sexually harassed at least four women who worked in his Assembly office and complained about his behavior.
“That’s clearly a focus — whether he’s using Assembly resources, state resources, for either personal or political purposes,” said one source familiar with the investigation.
The source said JCOPE is looking into how Lopez funded a trip to Atlantic City, during which he allegedly groped a female staffer in the car.
The employee later complained to the Assembly, touching off a censure that led Lopez to step down as head of the Brooklyn Democratic Party and stripped him of his post as chairman of the Housing Committee.
Another source said JCOPE is inquiring about how Lopez came up with $32,000 to pay two women hush money after they complained of his behavior. That money was in addition to $103,080 the Assembly paid the women, who left the state payroll.
Two others who stepped forward to claim they were harassed by Lopez — leading to the censure — have yet to settle and still work in the Assembly.
Victoria Burhans was reassigned and now works for Assemblyman Peter Abbate and Chloe Rivera works for Assemblywoman Joan Millman — both Brooklyn Democrats, officials said yesterday.
JCOPE spokesman John Milgrim and Lopez attorney Gerald Lefcourt both declined comment.
Lopez is no stranger to government probes of his handling of public money.
The FBI and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman are both in the middle of long-running investigations into the financial management of the nonprofit empire he founded, Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, which has received millions in government grants.
Meanwhile JCOPE has begun subpoenaing members of the Assembly ethics committee, which found sex-harassment allegations against Lopez to be credible and recommended he be stripped of his legislative power in August.
Assemblyman John McEneny (D-Albany) said he spoke to two investigators for about an hour yesterday and was asked standard questions about the ethics committee’s procedures, how long it took to come to a consensus and when they first learned of Lopez’s alleged misdeeds.
A source familiar with the probe said JCOPE is continuing to look into whether Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was wrong in approving the hush money settlement in the earlier case.
Additional reporting by Josh Margolin, Erik Kriss and Beth DeFalco