Expelled state Sen. Hiram Monserrate shamelessly blew off all three of his court-ordered counseling sessions and has barely begun his 250 hours of community service — putting him in the cross hairs of furious city officials looking to revoke his probation, The Post has learned.
As a result of his failure to heed repeated warnings to meet the terms of his sentence, the disgraced Queens Democrat may be forced to appear before a judge to explain why he shouldn’t be hauled off to prison.
“He has been told numerous times, and everyone has had enough,” one source said of Monserrate’s seeming disregard of the terms of the sentence handed down Dec. 18 after he was convicted of assaulting his girlfriend.
Monserrate has not undergone a single minute of domestic-violence counseling and has performed just six of his 250 public-service hours — visiting a Salvation Army office one afternoon, sources say.
“He was told, ‘This is serious,’ ” another source said. “It was made clear, ‘If you miss again, violation is next.’ ”
Officials say Monserrate — who recently became the first state legislator expelled by colleagues since 1861 — will be hauled before sentencing Judge William Erlbaum if the city’s Department of Probation rescinds his liberty.
If Erlbaum shows no mercy, which is unlikely, Monserrate would face up to one year in prison.
Monserrate’s lawyer, Joseph Tacopina, insisted that “the senator has been compliant with his probation conditions” and that “any notion the Probation Department is seeking to revoke his probation is not accurate.”
Erlbaum convicted Monserrate of misdemeanor assault last October for roughing up girlfriend Karla Giraldo. But he acquitted Monserrate on three related felony charges, including deliberately gashing her face with broken glass.
Monserrate, a former city councilman and ex-cop who left the NYPD with a psychological disability, was accused of slashing his girlfriend in a jealous rage after he found another man’s business card in her purse in his Queens apartment after an evening of partying.
Since his conviction — and the Senate’s historic 53-8 vote to dump him — Monserrate has been fighting to salvage his political career, saying only the voters in his northern Queens district can throw him out.
One of the dubious turncoat “Gang of Four” who turned the Senate into a circus last year, Monserrate argued that that “dozens” of state lawmakers had been allowed to keep their seats despite convictions no more serious than his own.
Last week, his lawyers filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court to reverse his ouster and challenge the legislative body’s legal authority to dump him.
Monserrate is also trying to block Gov. Paterson’s plan to fill his seat in a special election called for March 15.