New Yorkers are shelling out bucks for Shelly.

Taxpayers are being forced to pay out funds so Albany can respond to former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s corruption indictment.

The Assembly has hired white-collar criminal-defense firm Zuckerman Spaeder to handle requests for documents and other information related to the Silver case.

The Assembly is authorized to pay the firm $45,000 through February 2016, according to state Comptroller’s Office records.

The expense stirred outrage among Silver’s fellow lawmakers.

“Once again, the taxpayers foot the bill,” said Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R-Troy). “Sheldon Silver should reimburse the taxpayers for his alleged corruption.”

Silver has been accused of reaping more than $3 million in legal fees by steering cancer cases to the Weitz & Luxenberg law firm, while rewarding his medical tipster with state grants and other favors.

He has pleaded not guilty and says he will be cleared. His defense sought to have the case tossed over Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s “prejudiced” public remarks on the case.

A spokesman for the new speaker, Carl Heastie, said Zuckerman Spaeder was hired to help the Assembly comply with Bharara’s requests in the Silver case.

“The Assembly is cooperating fully with the United States Attorney’s Office. Ours is a cordial and professional relationship,” said Zuckerman Spaeder attorney Paul Shechtman.

The firm’s hiring was first reported by The Buffalo News.

It’s hardly the first time Albany shenanigans have walloped taxpayers’ wallets.

In February, $545,000 in public funds were used to settle two cases of sexual harassment filed against ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez by his former legislative aides.

Lopez was forced to pay only $35,000 out of his own pocket.

Silver was caught up in the Lopez case after it was revealed that he had OK’d a secret $103,000 settlement with two prior alleged victims of sexual harassment.

That payout also came from the public coffers.

Silver served as the Assembly leader since 1994 and was on the verge of becoming the longest tenured speaker ever before his January arrest.

Democrats forced him out as their leader in February after the corruption charges and replaced him with Heastie, the former Bronx Democratic Party chair.

On Thursday, a group of 45 law firms accused Silver of using his clout to stack the odds in asbestos and mesothelioma cases to favor Weitz & Luxenberg.

Weitz & Luxenberg handles more than half of such cases in Manhattan Supreme Court.

The 45 firms asked a judge to impose a 60-day moratorium on pending and new asbestos and mesothelioma cases so their complaints could be heard.