Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether Assemblywoman Ann-Margaret Carrozza broke state law by living in a Long Island mansion instead of her Queens district.

Cuomo’s office launched the probe in response to an exclusive Daily News report that revealed the Democratic lawmaker claimed in a mortgage document that the Glen Head, L.I., manse would be her “principal residence,” sources said.

Carrozza took out the mortgage when she bought the mansion for $1.8 million in June 2008, some five months before she was reelected in her Bayside, Queens, district.

State law requires a legislator to live within his or her district for a year prior to the general election and to maintain a residence in the district while in office.

Cuomo’s investigators – armed with statements Carrozza has made to The News – are focusing on whether she filed a false business document when she took out the $1 million mortgage, the sources said.

Carrozza, who has vowed to run for reelection next year, said she welcomes Cuomo’s probe.

“I am confident he will find that at all times I have maintained my primary residence right here in Bayside,” she said. That claim contradicts her mortgage pledge and statements she previously made to The News.

The mortgage papers Carrozza signed state the posh Gold Coast digs would be her “principal residence within 60 days” and “for at least one year” thereafter.

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