A former state Tea Party organizer and strip-club mogul who used his Westchester newspaper ​as a soap box ​to claim the feds are out to get him was arrested Thursday on charges of falsifying loan applications, tax ​fraud, wire fraud and witness tampering.

Selim “Sam’’ Zherka of Somers, NY was arrested by FBI agents after being indicted by a grand jury and is ​being processed today in White Plains federal court.

​The feds describe Zherka as a violent thug with ​alleged ​connections to the Albanian mob and a long rap sheet​. In filings, prosecutors call him a “habitual liar” with “no respect for the judicial system” ​as they seek to have his bail denied.

The papers​,​ citing several acts of ​violence ​described ​to prosecutors ​by a “co-conspirator​,​” ​allege Zherka once found a dead man duct-taped to a chair in the basement of one of his strip clubs. They also describe a 2005 incident in which one his daughters brought a black ​boyfriend to his office only to have Zherka allegedly pull out a shotgun and threaten to “blow” the man’s “f-ing head off” if he didn’t stop dating her.

Zherka, according to the indictment, allegedly made off with more than $146 million in loans from three banks between 2005 and 2010 by lying on applications. He’s also charged with participating in a decade-long tax fraud scheme, threatening a potential government witness in April 2012 and other crimes.

As The Post reported Monday, a direct-mailing company was subpoenaed by the feds to turn over its records of business dealings with Zherka’s Westchester Guardian newspaper. The records sought were for a period in which the free, acid-tongued weekly published a March 27 front-page story calling federal prosecutors Perry Carbone and Elliott Jacobson “unethical and corrupt hypocrites.”

Zherka claimed the subpoena was issued to ​shake him up and was a “clear attack on the First Amendment and free speech.”

However, Carbone, Jacobson and fellow Assistant US Attorney Todd Blanche said in the memo requesting Zherka be denied bail that the ​Guardian article is filled with “lies and defamatory statements.”

The story accused Carbone and Jacobson of assisting the Internal Revenue Service in an ongoing tax-fraud probe of Zherka as a “favor” to Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore, a fellow Democrat who is also routinely verbally attacked by the ​​Guardian.

The prosecutors’ filing also claims the article included “not-so veiled threats” against them by including their hometowns and a message of “happy belated birthday.”

“The only conceivable reason for including that was as a message that Zherka was investigating the prosecutors and had personal information of them,” the papers say.

Zherka proudly admitted to The Post last week that he hired direct-mailing company Promail USA to tweak Jacobson by sending roughly 15,000 extra copies of the edition to registered Democrats in Jacobson’s hometown of Greenburgh.

Zherka — who owns the Flatiron’s VIP Club and the Times Square Cheetah’s Gentleman Club — had told the Post said he planned to take legal action against Jacobson, Carbone and other federal authorities “for trying to intimidate free speech through the threat of prosecution.”

He currently has a pending lawsuit against several IRS and FBI agents for targeting him in a tax investigation as political retaliation for prominent Tea Party activities.

Messages left with him and his lawyers were not immediately returned.