Jail ex-correx union boss for 5 years: feds

Corrupt jails union boss Norman Seabrook deserves a sentence of five years and three months in prison for his “betrayal of trust and priority of greed over responsibility,” prosecutors wrote on Monday.

The former head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association will be sentenced Friday for taking a $60,000 kickback in 2014 in exchange for a $20 million investment in a hedge fund that ultimately went bankrupt.

“He acted greedily, recklessly, and brazenly,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Martin Bell wrote in a memo filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

“Seabrook’s participation in one of the more infamous union bribery schemes in the history of New York City cries out for a serious response.”

Once one of the city’s most powerful labor leaders, Seabrook (photo) earned roughly $275,000 a year while wielding tremendous influence over all aspects of city jails.

“But he wasn’t satisfied with his power or his paycheck. He betrayed the rankand-file correction officers whose interests he ostensibly represented for his own private gain,” Bell wrote. “He sold out his union.”

In his own letter filed last week, Seabrook cited his many accomplishments for the roughly 18,000 current and retired members of the union. He was found guilty last year but maintains his innocence.