The state pension “pay to play” scandal may go before a Manhattan jury as early as the spring.

Accused mastermind Henry “Hank” Morris — a former top consultant and confidant to ex-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi — will go to trial in March or April, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lewis Bart Stone said during a brief hearing yesterday.

The Attorney General’s Office has charged Morris with squeezing massive brokerage fees out of equity and hedge funds that wanted a piece of the state’s pension pot and pocketing $19 million.