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CEO ‘swiped credit card to pay $12 tab’

The CEO of the trendy online store Steelos rakes in $25,000 a month — but he’s such a cheapskate that he swiped a credit card to pay a $12 bar tab, according to Manhattan court papers.

Jesse Bride, 29, was busted in May for lifting a stranger’s credit card from an Upper East Side barbecue joint, authorities said. He then allegedly used it to pay his $12 tab at the bar — and another $12 bill at the next establishment he went to.

The well-heeled thief was extra generous to the waiter at the second joint — he left a 600 percent tip, or $70, court documents allege.

Bride — head of the Manhattan-based men’s clothing company — was drinking with a pal at Brother Jimmy’s near East 77th Street on May 25 when he initially snatched the card issued by Charles Schwab from the bar counter. It had been forgotten there by a patron, the documents said.

Bride, who has worked at Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta and Ralph Lauren, allegedly used the stolen plastic to pay his measly $12 tab before he headed to the bar American Trash around the corner. There, he used it to buy another $12 round of drinks and left the whopping tip, authorities said.

He was done in after the victim returned to Brother Jimmy’s later the same night looking for his missing card, authorities said.

The bartender knew Bride by face and realized that she’d processed the other person’s card without looking at the name.

She was able to finger Bride as the card thief to cops, the documents state.

Bride was hauled into Manhattan Criminal Court in handcuffs Wednesday after missing a court appearance on grand-larceny and identity-theft charges.

Judge Alexander Tisch chastised him for not hiring a private attorney and forcing the city to pay for a Legal Aid lawyer.

Surprised that she was assigned to his case, Legal Aid lawyer Candace Kurtz even noted, “He makes an enormous amount of money.”

The judge sternly admonished Bride, “You got to clear this whole thing up. This counsel is for indigent people.”

After the hearing, the handsome Upper East Side resident said dismissively of the case, “It was a misunderstanding.”

Wearing skinny jeans, gray high-tops and a white button-down shirt, he added, “It will all be cleared up.”