An enraged Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio came out swinging and swearing before pleading innocent yesterday to a federal corruption charge.
The portly Queens pol cursed at a newspaper photographer and knocked his camera out of the way as he exited a car on his way to arraignment in Manhattan federal court.
Seminerio, hiding his face behind an overcoat, nearly repeated the performance on his way out of the courthouse before his cadre of defense lawyers intervened.
“They’re f- – -ing animals,” he muttered as two fotogs clicked away.
The 73-year-old Democrat kept silent during a two-minute court appearance at which defense lawyer Michael Ross entered a not-guilty plea for him.
Seminerio remains free on a $500,000 bond secured by his wife and his Ozone Park home.
The veteran assemblyman was arrested in September after the feds accused him of an influence-peddling scheme in which he allegedly funneled payoffs through a sham consulting company over eight years.
He was indicted on a mail-fraud charge last week after plea negotiations in his case apparently broke down.
The indictment boosted the amount of payoffs he allegedly took to $1 million.