It's semi-official!  JoAnn "Jodi" Crupi is going down for her role in the Madoff  scandal.

Although Crupi was second only to Frank DiPascali on the infamous 17th floor, the media has given her a pass up until now.

Yesterday, Fox 5 caught her putting out the trash and chased her up her walkway. Crupi, a runner, nimbly leaped on to her porch and slammed the door in the reporter's face.

The Fox 5 crew then went down to the $2.2 million house on the Jersey Shore Crupi bought with investor money last year and put in her girlfriend's name. Crupi apparently has been renting the house for $7,000 a week when she can.

Fox 5 confirmed that Crupi, along with DiPascali and Annette Bongiorno, is from Howard Beach, Queens.

Last March, Fox 5 famously followed Bongiorno around the parking lot of her "exclusive" Boca Raton condo complex while her husband, Rudy, shrank from view. (How Fox 5 got inside the guarded complex in the first place is still a mystery.)

Crupi and Bongiorno must be sweating it out now that Frank DiPascali's sweetheart deal hasn't turned out to be so sweet after all. After living large for the last seven months on his 7-acre Bridgewater NJ estate, DiPascali has been sitting in the Metropolitan Correction Center ever since Judge Sullivan revoked his bail last week.

DiPascali had expected to remain free until at least May 2010 and probably much longer while he cooperated with the Feds. No such luck.

Rumors are that indictments will be handed down some time after Labor Day. It's a safe bet Crupi will make the cut.