Former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Frank Seddio revealed on the stand in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday that a businessman accused of extensive real estate fraud has been making legal filings and sending emails using his court system credentials and digital signature.

That real estate investor, Yechiel “Sam” Sprei, who was arrested last month for allegedly working with a sitting judge to swindle millions from investors in a property sale scheme, is Seddio’s client in a separate case involving allegations of the misappropriation of escrow funds.

The shocking revelation came in a sanctions hearing over Seddio’s conduct as a lawyer in the latter civil case. Seddio’s influence looms large over Brooklyn legal and political institutions as a former state Assembly member, Surrogate’s Court judge, and chair of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

Two international investors are locked in a federal and state case against Sprei over claims that they got caught in a scheme that started when they put $2 million into escrow with a Brooklyn lawyer, Mark David Graubard, to prove they had enough funds for a deal with Sprei.

After the investors began asking for their money back, they ran into strange roadblocks.

Sprei hired Seddio to file a case against the investors in the Brooklyn Supreme Court. The investors allege that in the year of litigation, Seddio and his clients commenced actions aimed at prolonging and delaying the lawsuit at every turn — allegations that Brooklyn Supreme...

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