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‘Poor’ Meeks parties rich

Gregory Meeks, one of the poorest members of Congress, continues to party like a 1 percenter.

The Queens Democrat scored coveted Super Bowl tickets in February, weeks after living it up in Las Vegas.

The good times were paid for by his campaign and political action committees, which footed the bill for plane fare, hotels, meals and tickets.

He used campaign funds to snag $19,000 worth of Super Bowl ducats, buying them from television networks, ticket brokers and the NFL, according to his recently released campaign filing.

The NFL and networks sell Super Bowl tickets at face value — $800, $900 or $1,200 — to VIPs and pols who may resell them at an inflated price to raise campaign cash.

He paid $3,625 for tickets from the NFL, a price that means he may have bought tickets to a suite at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The ticket buying, while not illegal, has been criticized because politicians are receiving something not available to the public.

Meeks, who has held Super Bowl fund-raisers for the last five years, refused to tell The Post in February whether he would hold one for this year’s Giants-Patriots championship game.

His fund-raising agency, Berger Hirshberg Strategies, said he was holding a $5,000-a-ticket event, and then said the party was up in the air.

It’s unclear who, if anyone, attended the Super Bowl festivities. The campaign filings for Friends for Gregory Meeks show only a handful of donations around the time of the Super Bowl.

Most of the PACs that contributed in early February told The Post that the donations were not connected to the Super Bowl. FedExPAC, which gave Meeks $4,000, refused to comment.

Meeks did hold a luncheon on Feb. 4 at Lorenzo’s restaurant in Indianapolis.

Geoffrey Browning, the restaurant’s owner, said 16 people — including Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) — attended the lunch and the bill was $801.08. But campaign records show an expense at the restaurant for $866.68 and it was paid twice — once to the restaurant and once to Berger Hirshberg Strategies.

Among the beneficiaries of Meeks’ largess was Michael Schulz, an employee of Berger Hirshberg Strategies.

Schultz hung up on a reporter seeking comment. Meeks refused to comment.

Meeks is under probe by the House Ethics Committee for lapses in his financial disclosures.