Metro

Busted for sushi booty

The ex-bookkeeper for a $450-a-dinner Columbus Circle Japanese restaurant apparently likes it raw at home, too.

Rafael Thomas, 41, was charged with stealing almost $100,000 from Masa in the Time Warner Center and blowing half of it on “live Internet adult entertainment,” Assistant District Attorney José Fanjul said yesterday.

The bean counter was arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court on one count of grand larceny in the second degree and 20 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.

Thomas worked at the sushi joint from January 2011 to February 2012, when he was fired after his manager found payroll records were missing, prosecutors said.

“He slowly started taking $100 to $200 off the top” of daily proceeds and eventually quadrupled his $52,000 salary, Fanjul alleged.

“The defendant started to cash corporate checks that were made out to ‘cash.’ ”

The Manhattan DA’s Office says it traced the funds to Thomas’ checking account and found he spent $52,000 for online porn.

He pleaded not guilty and was held on $50,000 bail.