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‘Evil Elmo’ gets year in jail for Girl Scouts extort plot

The cookie crumbled Wednesday for the unhinged Times Square “Elmo” who tried to blackmail the Girl Scouts for $2 million.

An unrepentant Dan Sandler, 50, got slapped with one year in the slammer after saying: “I accept the fact I committed a crime, but I’m not in anyway sorry to the Girl Scouts organization.”

The scraggly haired nutjob also bizarrely claimed that his failed extortion scheme was justified because the beloved youth group is “very corrupt” and works with drug companies “to promote off-label marketing of products.”

“This is not the case of someone in the back room of the office trying to embezzle money,” he said during a monotone statement in Manhattan Criminal Court.

“This is more of a protest, like laying down in an intersection.”

Sandler, who made headlines last year for shouting anti-Semitic diatribes at tourists while dressed up as the lovable red “Sesame Street” muppet, was busted in May after threatening to spread false rumors tying the Girl Scouts to a “rape camp” in Cambodia.

He also sent creepy emails and semi-nude photos of himself to a female supervisor at the Girl Scouts of Greater New York headquarters on West 23rd Street, where he did temp work about five years ago.

Sandler has been locked up since getting arrested in San Francisco, where prosecutors said he grabbed a kid while panhandling in his furry Elmo costume.

Defense lawyer Lori Cohen said Sandler will only have to serve eight months of his sentence for attempted grand larceny and stalking, meaning he could be back on the streets in January.

A Girl Scouts spokesman declined to comment.