Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr.’s scheming mistress told an undercover agent that payola makes her purr.
“You just, like, made me hot,” Ry-Ann Hermon cooed when an agent peeled off a $1,000 payoff at the Blue Water Grill in Manhattan during a recorded 2011 meeting that was played Thursday at the politician’s corruption trial in Brooklyn federal court.
Hermon, who served as Boyland’s chief of staff, told the fed posing as a businessman that she wanted a bite of the alleged bribes on which her boss was feasting — behind his back.
“I don’t know if I would ever get any extra money out of it or not,” Hermon told the agent during the meeting. “Because at the end of the day, my description is to work for him. So if you’re trying to give me a bonus check, bring it. I’ll welcome it.”
The agent proposed handing over a quick grand to the increasingly hot and bothered Hermon.
“Are you serious?” she asked him. “Oh, my God.”
The treacherous aide de camp — who can be heard gleefully ordering cognac during comped sitdowns with the undercover agent — was eventually arrested alongside Boyland on corruption raps.
She quickly copped a plea and is expected to testify against Boyland in court as the government’s star witness.
Prosecutors allege that Boyland solicited money from undercovers to secure permits for local carnivals and for easy access to properties that could be profitably developed.
His lawyers have countered that he lobbied for contributions like any other politician but never actually intended to deliver favors.
“He thought he was playing the players,” his attorney, Nancy Ennis, argued in her opening statement.
The assemblyman’s cash demands intensified after he was arrested for corruption raps in a separate Manhattan federal-court case in March 2011 — charges he eventually beat.
Boyland allegedly dispatched Hermon to ask the agent for $7,000 to help him retain a lawyer in the days after his arrest.
“He wants me to reach out to you, um, to see if you can actually help him financially with, you know, retaining an attorney,” she told the agent in a phone call. “He needs some cash. He’s strapped.”
Hidden-camera footage of the eventual payoff inside Boyland’s Brownsville office was shown to jurors Thursday.
The agent who delivered the dough testified that Boyland casually took the money while yammering about an unrelated topic and hid it under a folder on his desk.
Prosecutors have played extensive surveillance recordings of Boyland reciting an unending stream of boasts and vague promises to the agent during their many meetings.
On a long car ride through his district, Boyland assured that he could provide easy access to the downtrodden area’s hidden real-estate riches.
“Everything you’ve seen — I’m in control of,” Boyland said. “I’m the politician.”