FBI probing Jona Rechnitz in diamond scam

Maybe Kim Kardashian can get him a pardon.

Convicted ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio crony Jona Rechnitz who recently boasted about being a jeweler to the Kardashian family is facing a new criminal probe from the FBI in California for allegedly bilking an investor out of millions of dollars, a court filing shows.

Rechnitz, who’s embroiled in a Los Angeles County civil lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay back the investor, is asking for the case to be delayed because he’s now under a criminal investigation for the same matter — and risks incriminating himself if the case moves forward, court records show.

“Forcing Defendants to litigate this matter knowing that there is a parallel criminal investigation related to the allegations at issue in the Complaint and that Plaintiff’s goal is to enmesh Defendants in criminal prosecution would force Defendants to choose between exercising their Fifth Amendment rights and defending themselves in this civil action,” Rechnitz’s attorneys wrote in a filing late Monday demanding the stay.

They requested an emergency “ex-parte” hearing on their request for the delay after the judge in the case said he couldn’t hear arguments on the motion until next February, the filing shows.

The judge agreed to hear the motion for a stay on April 9, which was great news for the attorney representing alleged Rechnitz victim Victor Franco Noval.

“This means in 30 days, which is lightening speed in civil court, the Court will be able to rule on the motion on the merits, after a full briefing. Jona will not be able to use his own egregious and wrongful conduct as some sort of immunity to stop the advancement of this civil action against him, his spouse, and her companies,” said the attorney, Ronald Richards.

“The Court’s thoughtful advance will eliminate what we believe will be one in a series of delay tactics by Jona to avoid justice while he provides no information as to how he spent this money or where the collateral is.”

Attorneys for Rechnitz did not immediately return a request for comment.

Rechnitz the snitch who claimed in federal corruption probes that de Blasio, high-ranking NYPD officials and the head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association all accepted bribes from him — is currently appealing his own 10-month prison sentence for his role in the schemes.

But instead of keeping a low profile while cooling his heels, Rechnitz allegedly swindled Noval into loaning him millions of dollars for his jewelry company, Jadelle and Jewelry Diamonds, according to the civil lawsuit against him.

Noval, who wasn’t aware of Rechnitz’s dirty deeds in the Big Apple, loaned the convicted crook $2.8 million in January 2019 after Rechnitz touted his “political and powerful celebrity connections,” including his relationship with de Blasio and the Kardashians, court records show.

Rechnitz was supposed to pay Noval 9 percent interest on the loan annually and gave him $7 million in diamonds, plus a Bugatti, as collateral.

But then Rechnitz reneged on the deal, failed to make payments and swindled the diamonds back in exchange for bad checks, Noval alleged in the suit.

Noval reported the alleged con to the Beverly Hills Police Department, which allegedly said there were other victims, court records show.

Last week, one of those possible victims filed another civil suit against Rechnitz, alleging a con similar to Noval’s allegations.

Sam Israel Gorodistian alleged in his Los Angeles lawsuit that he lent the convicted scam artist $1,573,333 in what was supposed to be a short-term loan opportunity to collect interest on the cash.

When Rechnitz failed to pay him back, his lawyer eventually told Gorodistian he wasn’t getting the money back, forcing him to file suit.

The FBI did not immediately return a request for comment.