A tight cadre of 25 New York City attorneys were handed hundreds of cushy court appointments by a powerful Brooklyn judge — as they donated to his wife’s political campaign committee, The Post has learned.

Veteran Judge Lawrence Knipel doled out the nearly 900 “fiduciary appointments” to a tiny clique of 25 lawyers from 2022 until 2024, all of whom had chipped in $25,000 total to the judge’s wife, a Brooklyn Democratic Party district leader, records show.

Experts said it could clash with ethics rules set up over two decades ago by a reforming former chief judge who sought to restore integrity to the appointments process after a series of stories highlighting rampant patronage, cronyism and favoritism.

Judges would be wise “to spread out appointments to a variety of qualified lawyers,

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