Metro

AG crew: Albany is enemy #1

Rooting out the rotten thieves of Albany should be the top priority for the state’s next attorney general, three of the Democratic candidates for the crime-fighting job said yesterday at a debate in Manhattan.

“The culture of corruption and dysfunction in Albany, it’s difficult to overstate how bad it is,” said state Sen. Eric Schneiderman.

His opponents — former prosecutor Sean Coffey and former state Insurance Department Superintendent Eric Dinallo — also said that fighting political fraudsters would be their No. 1 focus.

While stressing that corruption was a problem, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said at the City Hall News-sponsored debate that his main concern is to “transform the office into a place where the problems of New Yorkers . . . would be addressed.”

Four of the five Democrats vying for AG attended the debate. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice — who leads the pack in fundraising — couldn’t attend because of scheduling conflicts.