The former local beauty queen at the center of a Capitol job-for-sex scandal continues to work for the state.

Angela Bertugli is being paid $45,344 a year as a legislative researcher, despite telling prosecutors that she believes she got her state job in the first place because she was having a fling with the top aide to House Democratic Leader Bill DeWeese.

DeWeese (D., Greene) has defended keeping Bertugli on the House payroll because she did the right thing in cooperating with authorities in the corruption probe known as Bonusgate.

“It would be wrong to take retribution against those who told the truth,” Tom Andrews, DeWeese’s press secretary, said yesterday.