Gov. Paterson yesterday ripped into his criminal-justice coordinator for resigning over his administration’s scandals — claiming she acted to serve her political needs.

The governor declined to comment on Attorney General Andrew Cuomo recusing himself from two probes into Paterson’s conduct, one of which focuses on whether he interfered in an aide’s domestic-violence case.

Paterson said on WWRL-1600 AM that his decision to pass that investigation on to Cuomo was sending it to the “proper place.”

“We knew that the attorney general could investigate it himself or handle it a different way,” he said.

He declined to discuss it further — but he sniped at Denise O’Donnell, his deputy for public safety, who resigned at the beginning of the scandal.

“The criminal-justice coordinator [O’Donnell], I think everybody knows, is running for attorney general, and you will have relationships that get exacerbated at times like that,” he said.