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The city’s corruption once had ambition to match its soaring skyscrapers. Indictments this week described cut-rate schemes with far lower returns — and there was that cash in a potato-chip bag.

By Michael Wilson

If New York’s City Hall is indeed selling favors, as a growing pile of corruption and bribery indictments say, the prices have fallen to bargain-basement, clearance levels.

The allegations feature a boat party with a D.J. A karaoke nightclub in Queens. Crab cakes. Seafood salad. A guy calling himself “Suave Luciano” whose real name is Glenn.