A disgraced former NYPD cop was hit with a three-year prison sentence Wednesday for his role in a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

Jason Rodriguez, 38, left the NYPD because of a drunken driving conviction, but he leveraged his professional shame into a story to tell investors — lying to them that he quit the force because he was making so much money in the global currency market.

That lie served as the cornerstone of his pitch to investors in his foreign exchange, or “forex,” business.

He founded a firm named Technical Trading Team, or TTT, using money from new investors to pay interest to his early marks in the scheme, prosecutors said. In a PowerPoint presentation, he boasted how his “zealous ambition for trading took precedence, resulting in the end of his law enforcement career

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