Long-closeted Brooklyn state Sen. Carl Kruger and his live-in boyfriend may seek separate trials on charges tied to an alleged $1 million-plus “pay to play” corruption scam.
Kruger and Dr. Michael Turano kept their distance yesterday during a 30-minute court proceeding.
Kruger did not speak in court as his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, entered a not-guilty plea for him.
Prosecutor William Harrington said the feds have 30,000 secretly recorded conversations and 100,000 documents incriminating Kruger, Turano and six co-defendants.
After a lawyer for David Rosen, former chief of the MediSys Health Network, asked for a nonjury trial, attorneys for other defendants — including Kruger and Turano — said they, too, might seek to have their cases tried separately.
Meanwhile, the state yesterday booted Rosen from the Medicaid program. He was alleged to have bribed Kruger and two other state lawmakers to help protect his health-care empire.