The luv guv sent a little cash valentine to New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.

Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer contributed $1,000 to Maloney’s Democratic campaign for state attorney general on July 12, filings show. He previously gave $16,000 to Maloney’s congressional campaigns.

Maloney, once a top aide to Spitzer when he was governor, is running in the Sept. 13 primary against Public Advocate Letitia James and lefty law professor Zephyr Teachout.

Conservatives have knocked Maloney for his role in the 2007 “Troopergate” probe into Spitzer’s use of state troopers for political purposes.

“To say that Sean Patrick Maloney had anything to do with this is ‘misinformed to the point of being laughable,’” Maloney campaign manager Caitlin Girouard said of the criticism, quoting a state investigator’s comments from 2012.

Spitzer resigned in March 2008 following revelations he patronized prostitutes. Since then, he’s unsuccessfully run for city comptroller and personally gave $14,500 to other city and state campaigns. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance was the only one to return Spitzer’s check, giving back $500 in 2009.

Spitzer didn’t return a call seeking comment.

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