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Genovese mobster charged with tax evasion

This guy could be the next Al Capone.

An aged wiseguy has been slapped with tax evasion charges for failing to fork over $367,000 in dues from real estate sales, authorities said.

Genovese solider Salvatore “Sallie” Demeo neglected to give the feds a piece of his $2 million action when he unloaded his shares in two Brooklyn properties in 2013 and 2014, according to court documents.

Prosecutors said a small chunk of the money was funneled into the plumbing company of a mobbed-up associate, but said they couldn’t locate the rest.

The beaming 77-year-old was released on $2 million bond Thursday, and excitedly poked his attorney in the ribs as the judge ordered he’d walk free.

“I’ll be back,” Demeo grinned excitedly as the jurist reminded him he had to return to court, after giving his daughter a sloppy kiss and pinching her cheek.

Prosecutors had tried to argue the stooped mobster would flee, saying they believed he had a “squirreled away” a hidden trove of cash.

Yet defense attorney Gary Farrell argued his hobbled client wasn’t going anywhere, and wouldn’t dream of jeopardizing the house his family had posted as collateral.

“His whole world is here,” the lawyer said, looking at the former sanitation worker, who was wearing a blue sweatshirt with a doctored neckline that exposed his clavicles. “He’s not going to run while his grandchildren are living in the house.”

“[Prosecutors] want him to stay out of social clubs, but his social club days are over,” Farrell proclaimed. “That’s the old Sal.”

Farrell declined comment as he left court. Demeo faces up to 41 months behind bars if convicted.

This isn’t the grizzled geezer’s first run-in with the law. He was charged in 1996 for stealing some $400,000 from a Manalapan, N.J. bank, and spent the next year on the lam, attempting to avoid federal racketeering charges. He was eventually caught, convicted, and sentenced to 57 months behind bars.

Most recently, the mobster was sentenced to probation last month to running an illegal off-shore gambling ring in Costa Rica.

Capone ruled the Chicago underworld until he was convicted on charges of tax evasion in 1931.