Maybe Alan P. Fraade — pronounced fraud — should have considered a career other than law.

A federal judge recently sanctioned the Manhattan lawyer for lying that his client was based in the UK instead of Brooklyn to duck a lawsuit over allegedly pirated TV content.

On July 18, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses found that Fraade repeatedly swore in court papers that a Brighton Beach man named Asaf Yevdeyev — who was selling content boxes similar to ones marketed by Apple TV out of an Avenue Z storefront — lived in the UK and was not associated with his client in a related pirating case, Panorama.

Panorama was accused of ripping off content from producers of Russian TV programs akin to Netflix.

Judge Moses found that Fraade’s retainer check and other payments were signed by Yevdeyev.

“The guy’s name is pronounced fraud,” said the plaintiff’s lawyer, Raymond Dowd, about his legal adversary, Fraade.

“Charles Dickens couldn’t have gotten away with this one,” Dowd quipped.

Fraade is a partner in the small Madison Avenue firm Mintz & Fraade. Last year, he represented hard partying finance crook Edward Downe Jr., who was given a controversial pardon from Bill Clinton.

Fraade told The Post, “We deny that we lied about anything or misstated anything. We’ll be preparing an appropriate response to submit to the court.”