Haha- Disgraced former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is ordered by NY state commission to RETURN $5.1m proceeds of his self-congratulatory ‘American Crisis’ COVID memoir – IOTW Report

Haha- Disgraced former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is ordered by NY state commission to RETURN $5.1m proceeds of his self-congratulatory ‘American Crisis’ COVID memoir

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  • Ex-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ordered Tuesday to turn over all proceeds from his pandemic book deal to the state AG’s office within the next 30 days
  • The ruling from the the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) comes after the agency announced a probe reassessing its approval of the 2020 tell-all 
  • The ethics agency commission voted 12-1 on Tuesday to order the ousted governor to fork over his memoir’s profits to the state Attorney General’s office
  • Multiple investigations by the state watchdog group found that Cuomo used state resources to produce and promote the book, penned during the pandemic
  • The ruling puts state AG Letitia James in the hot seat, after her office’s probe into sexual harassment allegations against the then-governor led to his resignation
  • Cuomo touted himself as a hero in the book in regards to his handling of the pandemic – despite being embroiled in a scandal over NY’s nursing home deaths
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