A group headed by a disgraced Bronx politician expelled from the City Council for allegedly mistreating staffers is getting funding from the city Department of Education, records show.

Andy King was booted from the City Council on Oct. 5, 2020 — the first city pol in modern history kicked off the lawmaking body without first being convicted of a crime.

It didn’t stop the DOE from funding King’s Bronx Youth Empowerment Program, for which he serves as executive director.

The group has so far this fiscal year gotten $21,300, according to records compiled by the comptroller’s office.

The grant funding is part of the Adams administration’s $9 million Project Pivot student safety program.

It’s the first time BYEP has gotten city taxpayer funding, according to city data.

But the funding has government watchdog groups scratching their heads.

“We know Andy King mistreated his Council staff. There has to be accountability,” said Erica Vladimer, co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group.

“The former councilman never has shown he’s sorry for the harm he caused.”

A Council source familiar with the ethics probe of King — and his subsequent expulsion — also expressed surprise.

“King was deemed unsafe to be around staff. He’s OK to be around kids?” said the Council insider, who requested anonymity.

The group is not listed as a not-for-profit charitable group in the state attorney general’s charitable group public registry.

King’s BYEP provides counseling services to kids at the MS 113 Richard Green school in The Bronx. 

Mayor Adams’ office said the school — not Adams or his hand-picked school Chancellor David Banks — selected King’s BYEP.

It said schools have the autonomy to work with vendors of their choice without a contract if the spending doesn’t exceed $25,000.

King recently tweeted a photo of a smiling Banks with students wearing BYEP shirts at a NAACP event in The Bronx’s Co-Op City.

For his part, the disgraced King defiantly said he was railroaded by the Council and insisted his work with kids is beyond reproach.

He said he and his wife, Neva, founded BYEP 18 years ago. 

“You can’t equate one with the other,” King said about linking his work at BYEP with his Council expulsion. “I’m not going to compare apples and oranges when it comes to helping people.”

“That was a political move,” he said of the expulsion. “It has nothing to do with the job I’m doing now. Be careful how you throw stones at people.”

“My program is about helping young people. The funding we get is used to give out food and clothing,” King told The Post. “We’re trying to save children and prevent children from joining gangs.”

He said teens were negatively impacted — academically and socially — by the COVID-19 pandemic and need help.

King confirmed it’s the first time BYEP has obtained city funds and thanked the Adams administration and school officials for their support.

He said he expects the group will get about $33,000 in city funds this year.

Before his expulsion in a 48-2 vote, the Council ethics committee had revealed that King allegedly engineered a kickback scheme involving city funds that netted him $2,000 — and that he continued to mistreat his staff, including telling one female employee in need of emergency medical treatment for menstrual bleeding to “put a band-aid on it.”

Two previous investigations by the ethics committee also found King violated Council policies and city regulations.

King was ordered to take sensitivity training in 2018 when the ethics committee determined he sexually harassed a staffer.

He was censured, suspended and fined $15,000 in 2019 by the Council after the ethics committee determined he misused city funds and retaliated against staff who reported his misbehavior.

Corey Johnson, the Council speaker at the time, said King left the body no other choice but expulsion after three different probes substantiated unethical behavior.

“All reasonable alternatives have been exhausted and drastic action is now our only option,” said Johnson, who described the third set of allegations against King “as conduct disqualifying from public office.”

“Council member King’s behavior is unfixable and that if do not take the action recommended by the [ethics] committee, we are likely to be back here in a few months,” he added.

One staffer sued King following his expulsion, accusing him of trying to use him to obstruct the ethics probe of the councilman.