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One of the major behind-the-scenes players in the city’s lucrative homeless-housing business is a director at a scandal-tainted prison-services firm under investigation for allegedly bribing state lawmakers to win contracts, The Post has learned.

Shimmie Horn, a director of Correctional Services Corp., is a major investor in homeless hotels, interests that he inherited from his father, the late Morris Horn, who once ran one of the city’s most notorious “welfare hotels” of the 1980s, the Brooklyn Arms.

Although Horn isn’t mentioned on any of the city’s lists of shelter providers, estate records filed in Surrogate’s Court in Queens show that Horn, 30, and his mother, Esther, were left substantial investments in at least a dozen hotels.

The hotels are among some of the longest-serving shelters for the homeless and include the Colonial Arms in Jamaica, Queens, and the Stadium Motor Lodge in The Bronx.