The neurosurgeon on trial for sexually assaulting a patient was caught on tape bizarrely accusing his victim of being part of the “mafia” when she tried to get him to admit to the assault, a recording played in court shows.

“Someone told me you work for the mob so I don’t know if that’s true but I gotta get off right now ok?” doctor Eric Braverman said on the recording.

“They say you work for the Italian mafia in Atlantic City and your whole family’s been working in the mob for three generations. I gotta deal with that later. Right now, that’s what people say, that you’re mafia. I don’t know what to say, I’ll call you back, ok?” Braverman said before the line went dead.

He’s facing forcible touching and sexual abuse charges for allegedly molesting a woman in her 20s during a massage at his private Park Avenue office in the Flatiron District in July 2017.

Captain Steven Green from the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit later testified in court Friday the recording was part of a ploy to get the doctor to admit his wrongdoing.

“Only one person has to consent to being recorded” in New York state, Green testified.

In the call, Braverman made a few creepy comments to the victim but didn’t admit to the assault.

“You didn’t do the test, you kept the checks and I never saw you again. I thought we were gonna go out,” Braverman said at the start of the call.

His victim, attempting to steer the conversation back to the 2017 assault, said she wanted to talk about “what happened” in his office.

“It kind of just made me uncomfortable,” the victim is heard saying on the line.

“You signed off that you were my girlfriend,” Braverman answered, adding “I don’t think anything happened.”

The victim, now 27, testified Thursday that she met Braverman at a real estate networking event and went to see him after he promised a holistic cure for her eczema.

“He started massaging my upper back and his hand caressed lower unto my butt and then he actually inserted his fingers into me,” the victim testified.

On Friday when her testimony continued, she said she “gasped” and was “shocked” when she felt the doctor assaulting her.

“I didn’t know what to do. I felt like I needed to leave immediately. He said ‘well I’m a doctor’. I didn’t feel comfortable at all,” the woman said.

Around the time Braverman was arrested in Oct. 2017, cops executed a search warrant at his office and found an attorney already present in his office, Green testified Friday.

Investigators were there to seize the victim’s medical records and surveillance footage from the doctor’s office but they came up empty handed.

Barverman’s defense attorney, Donald Vogelman, has repeatedly said the allegations against his client are baseless and he’ll soon be vindicated.

During opening arguments on Thursday, he said the woman was free to leave the office at any time, yet remained there for the three hours following the alleged assault.

“[Witnesses] will testify she didn’t scream and she didn’t run out. They will say she was happy when she left,” Vogelman told jurors.

He unsuccessfully tried to get the trial delayed after three jurors called out over coronavirus concerns but the judge denied his request, saying “what will be, will be.”

The trial is slated to continue Monday.