The Manhattan federal judge overseeing Jeffrey Epstein’s case Monday cited an exclusive Post report revealing how the pedophile hadn’t ever checked in with the NYPD as required for sex offenders.

As Epstein’s lawyers tried to argue why their client should be released on bail in the new sex trafficking case against him — saying he’s been “careful” in his obligations as an already-convicted offender — Judge Richard Berman said he read The Post’s story and it indicates differently.

“The thrust of that story … was that Mr. Epstein was not in compliance in New York state,” Berman told Epstein’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg.

As The Post reported last week, Epstein was ordered by another Manhattan judge in 2011 — after his conviction on solicitation-of-a-minor charges in Florida — to check in with the cops here every 90 days. Epstein has an Upper East Side manse.

The NYPD, when asked by The Post why it never followed up on Epstein failing to report in, claimed that Epstein wasn’t required to come to them — because he maintains that his primary residence is in the Virgin Islands.

A judge had already rejected that argument years ago.

Weinberg, responding to Berman’s mentioning of The Post article, said Epstein had received “no notice that he’s been in violation, despite the recent media.’’

The lawyer’s reply was particularly noteworthy — because he wasn’t arguing that Epstein wasn’t in violation, only that he hadn’t been notified of the issue.