New York taxpayers will be footing most of the bill to settle claims of sexual harassment by a former assemblyman.

Vito Lopez was accused by two former staffers, Victoria Burhans and Chloë Rivera, of harassing during their time working for him.

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New York state will pay $545,000 of the settlement, while Lopez will pay $35,000, says the their attorney, Kevin Mintzer, according to The Journal News.

Lopez was a Democrat representing Brooklyn in the legislature until he resigned in 2013.

“We hope our ordeal will serve as a strong reminder to New York’s legislators that they are accountable for their behavior,” the women say in a statement.

“All women should be treated with respect and dignity, not as sex objects or as problems to be handled and silenced.”

The women claimed the Democratic politician “had forced them to give him hand massages and made repeated inappropriate sexual comments and advances,” according to the paper.

The settlement comes on top of a previous settlement by two other Lopez accusers. Taxpayers coughed up $103,000 that time.

“By agreeing to pay a very modest amount to resolve the case, he admits absolutely no wrongdoing or liability, and maintains steadfastly that the material allegations against him in this case were not true,” Lopez’s attorney, Lyle Zuckerman, tells CBS 2.

“However, he is glad to have put this litigation behind him.”

The women alleged Lopez and now disgraced Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver “created an environment in which harassment was covered up and tolerated.”

Silver was recently arrested on corruption charges.

On top of the payments to the former staffers, taxpayers are also on the hook for some $700,000 in legal bills to two law firms hired by Silver and the Assembly to defend them in the case.

“We’re going to be cutting checks for a long time,” Assemblyman Kieran Michael Lalor, R-Fishkill, Dutchess County, says.

“It was tolerated for so long,” Lalor said. “We let it get this far — those who didn’t stand up to Silver.”