ALBANY — Get ready for Round 2 between the feds and former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

The government announced yesterday it intends to re-try Bruno (pictured) on corruption charges after the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled it can.

But Bruno again proclaimed his innocence and vowed yesterday to “defend myself till the day I die,” according to a friend, Steve Coffey, a lawyer who is not representing the former senator but who spoke on his behalf.

The appeals court yesterday overturned Bruno’s conviction on two charges that he deprived taxpayers of “honest services.” But it found the federal government presented sufficient evidence in its initial prosecution to retry the upstate Republican on those charges plus a third that resulted in a hung jury.

US Attorney Richard Hartunian and FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Clifford C. Holly of the Albany Office announced they will work to present a “superseding indictment.”

“Now you have water torture,” Coffey said. He called on the feds to drop the case on moral grounds.

Bruno friend E. Stewart Jones, another lawyer, noted the 82-year-old ex-lawmaker may be “87 years of age when this is concluded. Is that right?”