Dean Skelos, the former New York state Senate majority leader, has tested positive for the coronavirus and is expected to be released from prison, prosecutors reported in court documents Wednesday.

Skelos, 72, a former attorney, has not exhibited COVID-19 symptoms since about April 8, prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge in a court filing.

Prosecutors say the federal Bureau of Prisons informed them that Skelos will be approved for furlough and home confinement, "pending approval of his proposed residence by the United States Probation Department," according to the document.

"The Government understands that Skelos has now been cleared by medical staff at the facility for release, and release paperwork is currently being prepared," according to the court filing.

G. Robert Gage Jr. and Alexandra Shapiro were listed as Skelos' attorneys on the March 27 document.

Prosecutors said the government will update the court when it receives more specific details on Skelos' release.

Skelos was convicted in 2018 and found guilty of pressuring companies to provide jobs to his son, Adam Skelos. Those companies had business before the state.

The Bureau of Prisons website said the elder Skelos was serving time at the federal Otisville facility in upstate New York. 

As of Thursday, there were five facility staff members and nine inmates at the facility infected with the virus, according to the federal prison agency. 

In a letter dated last month, Skelos' attorneys said his age and prediabetic condition make him "uniquely susceptible to the COVID-19 virus pandemic." They asked for home confinement for Skelos.

The attorneys said the coronavirus risk is heightened in prisons because so many inmates are housed in close quarters. Plus a variety of workers, such as vendors and contractors, are permitted into the Otisville facility and could be carriers of the deadly virus, according to the document dated March 27.

"The sad reality is that Otisville FCI is ill-equipped for the pandemic and little can be done to contain the spread of the virus when it enters the community," they wrote.

Skelos represented Nassau County as a Republican in the state Senate from 1985 to 2015, and was majority leader from 2011 to 2015. He was disbarred subsequent to a December 2016 conviction.

Skelos' arrest came during Preet Bharara's tenure as US attorney for the Southern District of New York.