ALBANY – A top political adviser to state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno is being accused of making a bizarre and threatening phone call to Gov. Spitzer’s elderly father, it was learned yesterday.
The startling allegation against nationally known Republican consultant Roger Stone was outlined in letters from a lawyer for 83-year-old Bernard Spitzer.
Stone is accused of raging against the governor as a “phony, psycho, piece of s- – -.”
The account came in a letter to Senate Investigations Committee Chairman George Winner, who is probing the Spitzer administration’s dirty tricks scandal, and to the state Ethics Commission.
The letters said the anonymous call was placed to the Manhattan office of the governor’s real-estate mogul father and recorded on his voice mail on Aug. 6 at 9:57 p.m.
Spitzer lawyer Jeffrey Moerdler said a subsequent investigation traced the call to an apartment on 40 Central Park South belonging to Stone.
Since June, Stone has been working as a $20,000-a-month consultant to the state Senate Republican Campaign Committee, which is run by Bruno.
Moerdler said a comparison of the voice that left the message with a known sample of Stone’s voice indicated that the two were the same.
“This is a message for Bernard Spitzer,” begins the message, according to Moerdler.
“You will be subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Committee on Investigations on your shady campaign loans,” it continued, referring to controversial loans the elder Spitzer made to his son in the 1990s to finance an earlier campaign.
“You will be compelled by the Senate sergeant at arms. If you resist this subpoena, you will be arrested and brought to Albany.
“And there is not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho, piece of s- – – son can do about it, Bernie. Your phony loans are about to catch up with you.
“You will be forced to tell the truth and the fact that your son’s a pathological liar will be known to all.”
Stone – a onetime adviser to Presidents Nixon and Reagan – has a controversial history.
In 1996, it was reported that Stone had placed ads featuring revealing photos of him and his wife in swinger magazines looking for other couples to have sex.
Reached by The Post, Stone insisted the Spitzer call was “a total fabrication.”
“I live in a building controlled by Dale Hemmerdinger, who Spitzer has nominated to head the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,” Stone said.
“They have complete, unfettered, access to my apartment. I don’t deny that the phone number is mine but fabricating my voice would be exceedingly easy.
“Give me a f- – -ing break. This is the ultimate dirty trick and the kind of terror tactic Spitzer used in the Attorney General’s Office.
“The guy who pops off and makes threatening phone calls is Eliot Spitzer, not Roger Stone. I’ve been accused of many things but I’m not dumb,” Stone continued.
Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for Gov. Spitzer, declined to comment.
Bruno spokesman John McArdle called the charge against Stone “a serious allegation” but noted, “We haven’t seen the information at this point.”
Moerdler said there was no plan to file a complaint with city police.