For the first time, in his own words, once prominent Staten Island attorney Richard Luthmann described some of his involvement in the federal charges against him.

Pleading guilty to 2 of 11 charges, the former law chair of the reform party said, “I’m guilty. I represented a company that was ripping off Chinese people, Chinese companies, for scrap metal.”

“Mr. Luthmann was very ready to go to trial. But when he viewed the evidence as a whole he viewed all the potential collateral damage he decided to accept responsibility for the things that he did,” said Luthmann’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala.

Luthmann faced multiple counts including wire fraud, conspiracy and kidnapping charges related to a scrap metal company he and two codefendants were involved with back in 2015.

The defendants were accused of selling shipping containers packed with cheap filler material to businesses wanting to buy scrap metal.

The feds also say Luthmann plotted with his co-defendants to have a partner held at gunpoint to collect a debt.

“I agreed to be part of a situation over a company dispute, where an individual was threatened,” Luthmann said regarding that charge.

“He pled guilty to basically threatening someone to get money from them. But he wasn’t there. He wasn’t at the actual location where it took place and there was never any conversation as to how that person was going to be threatened,” Aidala said.

Luthmann could face between five and 15 years behind bars when he’s sentenced.

The guilty plea marks the winding down of a case that’s had many twists and turns: Luthmann’s bail was revoked after he was accused of evidence tampering, and of trying to intimidate a witness. A federal judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation last summer and it was revealed that Luthmann was diagnosed as bipolar. There was also talk about excessive drinking.

“This is no secret it’s going to be in the sentencing memorandum. He was drinking way too much. This is a person who if he wasn’t addicted to alcohol the way he was and if he was properly medicated really would contribute a lot to our society,” said Aidala.

Luthmann is also due back in court Tuesday on Staten Island to answer for charges that stemmed from a NY1 investigation into some misleading Facebook pages he created. That case is believed to be the first of its kind in the state.