"A single mother with a history of stalking has been busted on charges of harassing and extorting money from Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman.

Prosecutors portrayed Louise Neathway, 36 - who said in an interview published Thursday that she was Cashman's mistress - as a con artist who pestered him for cash.

"The defendant extorted approximately $6,000 from the victim and attempted to extort over $15,000," prosecutor Eric Iverson said at Neathway's Manhattan Criminal Court arraignment Thursday.

He said it wasn't the first time Neathway had tried to "control and manipulate" Cashman, 44.

Her lawyers, Alan Abramson and Stephen McCarthy, countered that prosecutors rushed to judge Neathway, who has a 14-year-old daughter.

"This is a married man who has an inappropriate relationship with a single mom - it ended badly," said McCarthy."