Disgraced former state Senator John Sampson finally pleaded guilty to embezzling public funds Friday — but a judge declined to accept his admission.

“I’m going to reserve decision as to the acceptance of the guilty plea,” Brooklyn federal court judge Dora Irizarry said after Sampson admitted to pocketing surplus escrow funds in 2008.

Irizarry, who oversaw the politician’s 2015 trial and conviction for obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI, said she needed to peruse more paperwork before making the plea deal official.

Sampson was originally charged in 2013 with embezzling around $440,000 in addition to the other counts, but Irizarry threw out the 2 charges prior to his trial. They were reinstated earlier this year by a higher court.

The ex-lawmaker was chatty Friday, twice telling the judge he thought another trial would waste his time — despite being in the middle of a five-year stint in federal prison.

“A trial would be a little long, your honor,” he said as Irizarry discussed the plea with him. At another point he said he didn’t want to put loved ones through another “lengthy trial.”

“I just want to move on,” the 53-year-old commented, before admitting he intentionally “failed to deposit the surplus escrow monies into the court’s account” from foreclosure deals he worked on as a court-appointed referee.

If Irizarry accepts the deal, Sampson will be sentenced to five years in prison, to run at the same time as his current sentence.

He’ll also have to cough up restitution. While he’s already paid a portion, Sampson still owes just under $92,000.

His family declined to comment as they left court.