Let it never be said that alleged insider-trading mastermind Raj Rajaratnam didn’t take care of his tipsters.

Over a number of years, the Galleon Group hedge- fund founder, who is the key figure in a massive insider- trading trial in Manhattan federal court, handed out two pricey BMWs, a $100,000 down payment on a house and $500,000 cash to tipsters, according to testimony yesterday at the trial.

And if that weren’t enough, the 53-year old defendant also produced a nifty $700,000-to-$800,000 profit for one tipster, his former pal Rajiv Goel, by managing Goel’s Schwab account from 2005 to 2009, the jury was told.

Goel, an ex-Intel exec and the second of three key US witnesses to testify against Rajaratnam, told the jury he “had never seen so much money in my life” when he received the half-million dollars in 2006.

Rajaratnam gave him the money to help him with his family home in India — not for insider information, Goel testified. Yet just nine months later, Goel was passing to Rajaratnam confidential inside information about Intel’s earnings for the March 2007 quarter, accord ing to testimony.

Goel, who will continue on the stand today, is expected to testify that he also tipped Rajaratnam about Intel’s plans to invest in a 2008 joint venture involving Internet service provider Clearwire.

It was Goel who received the $100,000 to buy a house. The 2005 cash assistance was supposed to be a loan — but was never repaid. The 52-year-old Mumbai native said he was “nervous” about paying for the house, and Rajaratnam, according to the testimony, told him, “Hey, I can help you.”

“And he did,” Goel said.

In one humorous moment, Goel testified he used $150,087 of the $500,000 payment from Rajaratnam to repair his Los Altos, Calif., home, which had been damaged by “rat infestation.”

Regarding the nifty profit Rajaratnam produced for Goel by trading equities in his Schwab account, federal prosecutors have alleged that Rajaratnam traded on illegal inside information, including a 2008 deal to acquire PeopleSupport.

The defense is expected to argue that Goel, who worked for Intel’s investment arm, didn’t have any inside information and that, as he testified, he received no direct compensation for his alleged tips and therefore had little incentive to do what he has confessed to.

But Goel, who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with government prosecutors, said he wasn’t Rajaratnam’s first Intel insider to receive lavish gifts.

The witness yesterday said Rajaratnam once told Goel that he previously relied on tips from two women who kept track of Intel’s product sales. The women allegedly received BMWs from Rajaratnam, “one to each individual,” Goel told the jury. kwhitehouse@nypost.com