The Brooklyn construction company owner who skirted donation limits for Mayor Eric Adams' 2021 campaign by using his employees as straw donors should get a year of probation, pay $18,000 in restitution and a $9,500 fine, federal prosecutors recommended.

Erden Arkan, 76, of KSK Construction Group, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to commit wire fraud after prosecutors said he worked with the Adams campaign to funnel illegal cash to the mayor’s election bid.

The business owner will be the first person to be punished in the federal investigation into the mayor for allegedly soliciting bribes from foreign nationals.

The Department of Justice under the Trump administration interceded on Adams’ behalf and dropped the prosecution against the mayor, claiming that it interfered with his

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