NEW YORK – A judge has frozen bank accounts and sealed the Manhattan apartment of Norman Hsu at the request of investors who say the jailed political fundraiser stole $40 million from them.

State Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich granted the application of attorney Ronald Minkoff to attach Hsu’s accounts at Bank of America and Metrobank New York and to seal his apartment on Wooster Street in Lower Manhattan.

The judge said Minkoff’s client, Source Financing Investors LLC, had to post a $150,000 bond in case Hsu is improperly damaged by the asset freeze.

Minkoff said in court papers that he wanted asset attachment orders to include funds donated to the campaigns of presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gov. Elliot Spitzer, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

The judge did not act on that request because no one was in court to represent the politicians. Minkoff said he had not told them about proceeding after speaking to their offices by telephone.

The lawyer told Kornreich that Clinton’s people said she had sent back all money contributed by Hsu; that Gillibrand’s people said she had given the money to charity; that Cuomo’s camp is holding the money while trying to work out an escrow arrangement, and that he had not heard from Spitzer’s people.

Minkoff said outside court he simply did not know whether Kornreich would have the authority to order recipients of Hsu’s largesse to return the money.

Kornreich and Minkoff agreed that any action federal investigators and prosecutors decide to take with regard to Hsu would preempt her orders.