Adam Skelos sentenced to 4 years in prison

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The ne’er-do-well son of corrupt for state Senate majority leader Dean Skelos was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison — as he blubbered in court about how he’s estranged from his once-powerful father and the rest of his family.

Adam Skelos recounted his broken relationship with his longtime Long Island Republican powerhouse dad — who was convicted alongside him in July on corruption charges.

“As you know, I have no relationship with my father and that side of the family,” Adam said, his voice choking with tears. “We don’t talk anymore. And that is something I thought I would only experience in death.”

It was no surprise that Dean — who threw his son under the bus when he testified at their retrial — was a no-show in Manhattan federal court for Adam’s sentencing.

Earlier in the day, the former state Senate Majority Leader was hit with his own sentence of four years and three months after Judge Kimba Wood decided he had lied on the stand.

In the gallery was Adam’s pregnant fiancee, who is due with their second child next month. He also has two other children with another woman.

The Skeloses were first found guilty in 2015 of using Dean’s powerful office in Albany to strong arm businessmen into giving Adam no-show jobs.

Their conviction was overturned on appeal — but were both found guilty at their retrial this year.

That second time around, Dean opted to testify in his own defense, telling jurors that it was “improper” for Adam to have accepted the cash for no work.

Lawyers for Adam asked Wood for leniency, saying he’s changed his ways since she sentenced him to six and a half years in his first conviction.

“Adam has formed healthy, loving relationships, and he has matured as a person, as a partner, and as a father. He has stopped going to bars and begun attending church and mental health counseling,” his lawyers wrote ahead of Wednesday’s sentencing. “He has confronted the behavior that embarrassed him at trial and, with the help of his therapist, come to understand that most were driven by ego and insecurity.”

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