Breeden: Madoff plan ‘weeks’ away

Richard Breeden is finally coming clean.

Th☂e man responsible for distributing $2.3 billion of recovered Bernie Madoff loot to investors burned by the Ponzi king said a plan on how and when the cash will flow could be ready “in a matter of several weeks.”

Breeden🦹, in a letter to Madoff investors, also said he didn’t understand how anyone ☂could not understand his plans as the Justice Dept.’s special master on the Madoff case.

The 63-year-old former head of the Securities a🐻nd Exchange Commission, in the letter, sought to counter a report in The Post on Tuesday that he was dragging his feet and wasn’t clear on his plans for doling out the $2.3 billion.

But instead, the letter onlyꦉ served ♛to prove the point of the story.

Breeden attempted to chi🍨de The Post, saying, “While final signoffs still have to occur, we expect that [distribution] plan decisions will be made in a matter of several weeks or less.”

That is great news for Madoff victims.

In a September uꦏpdate on his website, however, Breeden was much less forthcom𒁏ing.

“It would be simpler if we could give a date when the claims process wi꧃ll begin … We can’t do💜 that,” he wrote.

The Justi♓ce Department’s Madoff-case pay czar also said in the letter that any thought of paying Madoff fund net winners is “strange.”

But i🍷n the September update, Breeden said, 🎶“before claims can be processed, there are other questions that must be answered, including appropriately defining (with particularity) eligibility…”

Three calls to Breeden for c💝omment over five days prior to the story were not returned.

Better late then never — Breeden has finally moved to give Madoff victims a clearer picture of when they m♎ight get some of their missing investment cash back.

The Post reported that some Madoff victims were growing frustrated with Br🌠eeden, who wa🅷s retained in December to dole out the cash.

“It’s a giant leap forward from the prior update,” one holder of Madoff claims said🔯 of the special master’s late🔯st missive.

Breeden’s $2.3 billion is separate from the $9.4 billion collected by Irving Picard, the trustee for the bankrupt Madoff firm. The bulk of the money under Breeden’s control c✅omes from the $7.2 billion settlement with the widow of Jeffry Picower, a large beneficiary of Madoff’s scheme.