The two months Guy Velella spent outside jail on conditional release counts toward his sentence – meaning the disgraced former state senator could be out of jail as early as the first week of March should he be sent back to the slammer today.
The clock kept ticking away on Velella’s one-year sentence when the Local Conditional Release Commission let him out of jail – even though his early release was later deemed invalid by the reformed panel.
“He’s on probation status,” a Department of Correction source told The Post. “So his time out counts toward his sentence.”
The Republican Bronx pol began serving his 365-day sentence stemming from charges of bribery on June 21.
But after serving just 100 days, Velella was discharged on Sept. 28 by the LCRC, a largely unknown panel that was disbanded amid an uproar stemming from his early release.
The reconstituted panel voided the release earlier this month, calling it “invalid,” and ordering Velella back to the clink.
Judge Lottie Wilkins will decide today whether or not Velella will return to Rikers.