Felony convictions may have forced Dean Skelos, Tom Libous and John Sampson to resign their state Senate seats, but they’re keeping their chairs.

Their actual chairs — plush brass-and-leather ones they enjoyed as a right of office.
By tradition, ex-senators get to buy their old seats for a token $25 payment. Even corrupt liars can keep the very chairs they sat in while cheating New Yorkers.

OK, it’s not as big a hit to taxpayers as the pensions that the three (along with convicted ex-Speaker Sheldon Silver and other former Assembly cons) get to collect. But the chair perk still burns: Why should the people of New York have to shell out hundreds more bucks so felons can have a prime memento?

A Senate spokesman confirmed to the Albany Times Union that all three of the criminals ejected last year did, indeed, take their chairs. Not a one felt too much shame.

“Wow,” said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, when told of the chair-buying former senators. “It is amazing that convicted felons should get a discount on a fine leather chair. Only in Albany.”

Call it another take on an all-too-familiar lesson: Lie, cheat or steal while you’re doing “the people’s work” in New York, and you’ll still be rewarded.