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A bill for a $177 bagel isn’t the only outrageous expense claimed by former City Councilman Larry Seabrook.
The Bronx Democrat — whose doctored bagel receipt was part of a federal corruption case that ended with his conviction in July — plopped down $4,004 in taxpayer money on three new computers as he was facing trial, according to council spending records obtained by The Post.
Seabrook purchased the Dell computers in August 2011 — three months before his first federal trial began, but long after his arrest.
He was acquitted in December and convicted in a retrial earlier this year for steering $2 million in taxpayer money to shady nonprofits that employed his then-mistress, as well as relatives and friends.
Seabrook also plunked down $400 on professional photography services.
The new information on his computer purchases — which were approved by the office of Council Speaker Christine Quinn — comes one year after he spent taxpayer money on fancy office electronics, like a flat-screen TV and a digital camera.
A spokesman for Quinn said council staffers conducted an inventory of Seabrook’s office and found that “all council property is accounted for. The computers he bought are working and operating and going to be used for the incoming member.”
Two years ago, Seabrook spent $20,000 from his public piggy bank to change offices, an unusually high amount for such a move.
At the time, he said the move was in part to cut down on expensive heating costs, but in the past fiscal year, he tapped the taxpayers for $1,200 for air-conditioner and heating purchases and repairs, according to the records.
Each of the council’s 51 members is given $292,336 or $332,336 — depending on whether they chair committees — to spend on payroll and office expenses.
The receipts are virtually never questioned by Quinn’s office, and one former member — Miguel Martinez of Manhattan — is in jail in part for misusing the funds for personal reasons.
Seabrook’s sentencing is scheduled for January, and the city is holding a special election Nov. 6 to replace him. He left the council after his conviction.
A woman who answered a phone listed for Seabrook first asked who was calling and then, upon hearing it was a reporter, said, “You have the wrong number.”