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A former restaurateur with ties to the NYPD corruption scandal continued to scam while on the run in Georgia last year — by skating on a $150,000 loan from an associate and blowing another $100,000 at strip clubs, bars and hotels, authorities said Thursday.

Ex-Hudson River Cafe owner Hamlet Peralta, who allegedly ran a $12 million Ponzi scheme, received a loan from Connecticut-based broker Joseph Gega, Manhattan federal prosecutors said at a bail hearing.

When Peralta didn’t make payments, Gega noticed an additional $100,000 missing from a joint account, prosecutors said.

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